Techstorm970

The highschool I used to go to was still using Windows XP laptops with Celeron M and 512MB RAM in 2013...so 10 years of use isn't out of the question, not with modern low-end hardware and Chrome OS being lightweight.

I don't really understand the outrage. 
10 years of support for Chromebooks, which are typically really cheap laptops used in schools, sounds really good to me. I doubt any school would want to keep the same laptops for about 10 years. They are probably pretty destroyed after 3 or so years. 

I know W7 was/is quite the popular favorite, but it's almost 15 years old now.  It's a legacy OS.  Terminating the old licenses is odd, but that won't stop the people still using it.
 
W8 can burn in hell.  Crime against computing.  Good riddance there. 

AMD lives matter?

"Release now, fix later" isn't this the current gaming business model?
I stopped buying games at release because of this years ago. I wait until the major patch is released and buy the game on sale, I get a win/win, a game that runs and reduced price. 👍

Its Paradox. What do you expect?
 
They go with EA nightmare model but for genres that are so deathly niche that you cant go anywhere else.

As I understand Samsung is not doing anything about devices that were already activated.
And Motorola... Well yeah, fuck Motorola. But then again, this ain't really their problem. They didn't import them illegally. Fuck the sellers.

Currently running Manjaro for better or worse.

Seen the video, pretty dumb TBH. If it were a simple compliance issue they couldve just disabled the cellular radio and whatnot. But they instead locked out the owner from the phone, somethings stinking....
 
 
#TryLinuxMint  😄

Since the OP misses out on a couple key parts of this;
Mexican governments asks Samsung to not block illegally imported phones - SamMobile
 

I remember when games started requiring GPU hardware T&L support, I brought the latest Medal of Honor game and it wouldn't launch at all with a prompt saying "Hardware T&L support required".
 
I'm surprised and in a way sad this doesn't happen more, literally means lots of generational specific hardware GPU features aren't being used or aren't being fully leveraged so older hardware can stay supported.
 
Those that care and find this annoying just be thankful it doesn't happen more often, which it should.

I'll just throw in this observation in case people missed it.
 
Minimum = Low
Recommended = Medium
Ultra = High
 
High is Ultra. Medium is the step-down for the masses, not High.

I saw this coming a mile away.  I was laughed at when I said once games start being optimised for the current consoles, PC gamers would need to upgrade as their hardware would not be able to keep up.
 
Mark Cerny was quite clear for example that the PS5 hardware decompression block would have taken 6 of the PS5s CPU cores to do in software.  It was clear this would mean PC users would need faster and more cores to compensate, but PC users just blame it on poor optimisation.  Which sure, that is an element but if that optimisation means completely rewriting the engine then of course there will be compromises if the cost would outweigh releasing it on PC at all.  Plus if you DO make those optimisations then naturally that's likely to mean DX12 Ultimate.
 
I'm actually amazed we managed to get Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart on PC without GPU decompression.  Even with GPU decompression, its inherently less efficient on PC due to bottlenecks moving between the GPU and system RAM, whereas the PS5 has the benefit of that unified memory so once its loaded into main memory, GPU and CPU can access it.
 
Were returning to a time where consoles can punch above their weight due to more efficient integration of their architecture.  Yes PCs still have faster GPUs, but its a lot harder to utilise that when ported from console as we have very different bottlenecks.  Shuttling data between system RAM and VRAM is expensive.

Its rather like complaining that people should be able to get to their destination just as quickly on the back roads as they can on the motorway/highway.  Its completely unrealistic.

God. remember when just 7 years ago all PC gamers did was bitch and moan about how consoles were holding gaming back?

Now that a game comes out and uses the new DX features baseline they bitch and moan that they are the ones holding gaming back. 

Gamers, please note, you dont have to play it when it comes out. The game will be just as valid in a year when you buy a Lovelace Next xx60 part to replace your 8 year old 1060

Or in 3 years when you buy a lovelace next next xx60 part to replace your 1660.

I know W7 was/is quite the popular favorite, but it's almost 15 years old now.  It's a legacy OS.  Terminating the old licenses is odd, but that won't stop the people still using it.
 
W8 can burn in hell.  Crime against computing.  Good riddance there. 

Oh the memories 🏴‍☠️
 

 
 

As I said issues are not new, what's new is peoples capability, ability and willingness to complain about them

In some countries they just don't give a shit about embargos. This really does happen nearly every launch. 

1. Setup a shell "A" corporation
2. Proxy all data to another "B" corporation outside the state with "A" caching only a few minutes worth of data"
3. ????
4. PROFIT!!!
 

I now regret telling you that existed.

IT'S  ABOUT FREAKING TIME

Looks at UK electricity prices, starts sweating before even heating up from Folding.
 
I think there's a good chance the only direction I have to go in the leaderboard is down on this one.

Awesome! Excited to participate in my first event!
The requirements will keep my N4020 Celeron and AMD PRO AIO-8770E working hard!😃

Epic, can't wait for my room to be cozy for the month.