DonCornholio

Summary
 Norwegian consumer law,  as of the 1. of january 2024, has been updated. It now requires all new products that requires an app, or has built in software to have at least 5 years of updated software support. Norwegian consumer law has allways been strict, and every product sold in norway has a 2 or 5 year warenty. Where the 5 year warrenty covers things that is made to last. Consumer electronics (Phones, TV's, smart watches, appliances, ect.) is coverd by the latter 5 year warrenty that now also includes app support and software updates from the time of purchase. 
 
Quotes
This is a Norwegian article, and not the main focus of the story, but rater a summary of what is changing in the law. I have looked for other sources but can't seem to find any news sources that have piced up on this story.
 
My thoughts
 This is huge news. Norway is not really a big market, but still a big consumer of electronics. This newest law change sets huge pressure on manufacturers to keep old tech allive and not kill support if a product fails. This in theory also maens that if you buy for example an older phone it is not 5 years of software sopport from when the product is launced, but the way the law is worded it means it is 5 yeas of software support from the time of delivery/purchase. This means that stuff realistically needs at least 6-7 years of software support, as stores sell the same product over a 1-2 year period.
If the requrements are not met the manufacturer is legally required to fix or replace the product, and i dont think any manufacturer is ready to take the L on having to replace all of the products in a country, becase they did not want to do an extra software update. 
If anyone is wondering, it is really hard for manufacturers to get out of these cases. Personally i have had 2 panel replacements on my LG B9 OLED Tv becase of dead pixels, and i know that a lot of samsung fold owners get free scrren replacments when they start to crack from the folding of the screen. I have hight hopes that this can be pretty big for electronics being built to last.
 
Sources
 https://www.nrk.no/vestland/butikkane-far-faerre-sjansar-til-a-retta-feil-1.16693150

Linus Media Group response:
https://youtu.be/0cTpTMl8kFY
 
 
 
From the video
«The Problem with Linus Tech Tips: Accuracy, Ethics, & Responsibility»
 
„This video is not monetized. This video covers our serious concerns regarding the data accuracy of Linus Media Group, including Linus Tech Tips, ShortCircuit, and TechQuickie, particularly as it relates to rushing content out the door to favor -- by staff's own admission -- quantity over quality. As the company continues to expand into its LTT Labs direction, the importance of accurate data increases; however, even as 'only' entertainment, there are still certain responsibilities to the consumer and the manufacturers to report fairly (and to have defined corrections processes in place). We tried to approach this as objectively as possible and hope that viewers are able to listen to the evidence we present, particularly as it relates to significant and frequent data errors that now present in nearly every technical review video.“
 
While GN has some good feedback, sometimes it feels like they are disingenuous and create a narrative that does not resonate with what I see from LMG.
 
Read:  I agree with most of the problems raised in the video, but not everything is 100% the way it is portrayed. 
 
Furthermore, I have the impression that some points, such as statements that lead people to believe that Linus is railroading creators or that the Chief of Labs is utterly unfit for the job, are probably not accurate and not deserved.
 
To reiterate:  I am not discounting some other points that Steve has made.
 
Some other uninformed criticism is about alleged conflicts of interest when reviewing laptops while the company is an investor in Framework.
 
This insinuation is also not entirely accurate. 
 
 
In trying to set the record straight, GN has fallen prey to inaccuracies in some of their claims. «The pot is calling the kettle black» situation. 
 
I believe that the issues that GN raises are valid and should be taken on board to improve the quality and accuracy of the content.  
 
There are some other allegations that, if true, are very concerning.
 
We need a frank official response from LMG. The next WAN show is going to be spicy. 

all I can think of is this
 

You should have added that disabling the hibernate sleep mode, can also free up a lot of memory on your ssd bootdrive if you need it. In my case it was about 40gigabyte (depends on amount of ram) and it's absolutely not necessary, you can still use the normal sleep mode, and i havent noticed any drawbacks since disabling it.

You should also check your viewport preferences ! There's an option for how much resolution textures can have in the viewport, i think the default value is 512x512 . So even if you load a texture map with more resolution it will still look low res in the viewport. But if it looks bad even after rendering there might be something else thats wrong.
You could post your textures and models here, that would help us to help you

You should also check your viewport preferences ! There's an option for how much resolution textures can have in the viewport, i think the default value is 512x512 . So even if you load a texture map with more resolution it will still look low res in the viewport. But if it looks bad even after rendering there might be something else thats wrong.
You could post your textures and models here, that would help us to help you