LehransMedallion

Chromium doesn't appear to have an ESR version, which, given how widely it's used in frameworks like Electron, seems like a slightly strange decision. It seems quite reasonable to me that someone packaging a native program doesn't want to have to ensure that everything is still working every 6 weeks, when a new build of Chromium is released, since it's much more complicated to update a native app than it is to just roll out a change to your website. I think it would make sense for there to be an ESR for which fixes like this are backported, so your program is pretty much guaranteed to be unaffected by the update, making it much easier and faster to roll out the critical fixes to the users. They then only need to actually do a full update every 6 months/year/whatever when a new ESR comes out. This isn't even considering the work involved for Electron, who would potentially have to deal with changes to the low level API (I don't know what the Chromium policy in that respect is).
However, Chromium doesn't use an ESR cycle, and v59 was superseded in July, so while I absolutely agree that it would have been good for them to backport it, and not doing so is a bit of a punch in the face to the Electron devs, there really is no obligation for them to. I imagine the community will have backported the fix by now anyway, so it's probably not a huge deal in terms of your stuff being much more vulnerable than it would have been if Google had fixed it instead.

It still is. If its not fast on your computer then it is probably because it has become bloated on your computer.
However, the tests run by Mozilla shows that it's still fast (as far as JS performance goes at least). Hell, even the Firefox Quantum video from Mozilla shows that Chrome beats it at some pages, and loses at some.
 
Do you have any evidence to back up your claim? My guess is that it's just "I think it's slow on my machine therefore it is shit" like 99% of all browser discussions.
 
Where did you get this inside knowledge from? To me it sounds like you're just pulling claims out of thin air.
I don't see how repackaging Chromium is any more difficult than repackaging Firefox.

Care to explain to me how upgrading from Chromium 59.X.XX1 to 59.X.XX2 is easier than upgrading from Chromium 59 to Chromium 60?
 
Other frameworks such as...?
And yes it makes sense for Google to refuse to patch. They have already released a patch but some developers do not want to use the latest version all the time.
 
What alternative from Microsoft?
 
 
Or another analogy. Imagine if someone found a bug in Minecraft 1.11 that was fixed in Minecraft 1.12. Are you really going to flame Microsoft because they won't release a version of 1.11 which doesn't have that issue? They would just tell you to download version 1.12 if that bug bothered you.
They would not give two craps if you had your own policy of only installing each second update. Want the latest bug fixes? Then don't stick to an old version.
 
Again, it is different for OSes because those are massive updates in terms of time consumption, compatibility, cost and other factors. Updating your browser and updating your OS are not comparable.

How about another perspective: Is it the responsibility of the Linux maintainers to provide a patch for every distro using an older version of the kernel to fix a problem that was already fixed in a later version of the kernel?

Again Electron isn't their project. If the downstream project isn't merging the latest upstream version, it falls to that downstream to backport the patches for their apps. Always has, always will.
 
You'll notice the *vast* majority of FOSS projects only maintain active support for their latest version, and perhaps a LTS version, both for updates and security patches.
 
I'm a Google fanboy so take my words here with the salt they deserve, but this isn't really Google's problem to solve.

Assuming you download a driver from this page.
Which version did you download? 17.9.3 or 17.7.2?

Can you try uninstalling the driver with the regular AMD uninstaller (add or remove programs) and try to install the 17.7.2 version? The issue might be limited to 17.9.3.
 
Additionally, are you sure it is an RX 460?

I was about to ask about what was showing up in Device Manager. Glad to see you thought of that on your own!
 
Personally, I haven't used DDU for years. It hasn't been necessary for a long time.
 
If 17.7.2 is still giving you issues...
...and ninja'd again. Twice in a day! Yikes.

Yeah, yeah. Can't be mad. I like your hat.

And to AMD's credit, they marked 17.9.3 as optional meaning it probably isn't the version Windows update is grabbing. I bet you have 17.7.2 now. Or slightly older.
 
Edit: Yay! Glad to hear it is working!

Well that's a good sign! First time it has said that without being in safe mode! Games work like a charm too! Thank you guys so much!

I was about to ask about what was showing up in Device Manager. Glad to see you thought of that on your own!
 
Personally, I haven't used DDU for years. It hasn't been necessary for a long time.
 
If 17.7.2 is still giving you issues...
...and ninja'd again. Twice in a day! Yikes.

I would suggest you advise your friend to buy the new computer, install an Operating System of choice, and THEN hook up this hard drive and try to salvage as much as you can. 
 
Else, you can always get an external HDD enclosure and try to work off of that. 
 
In reality the hardware is old and useless - and so is the WindowsXP installation on it.
Saving programs' cache is a huge undertaking and not something I would ever bother with. Either direct him to a data recovery professional - whom he should visit with the HDD AND his new machine, or else salvage pictures, videos and documents - if you can that is -  and move on to a new computer. 
 
In any case - avoid turning this machine on, especially since you don't know where the problem lies. If the hard drive is on its way to fail, putting it to unnecessary work will just speed up the process. 

Thunderbolt 3 is royaltee free. Also Gigabyte has come out with a threadripper motherboard with TB3 support.

Where are people getting that these are capacitors? The article specifically states they're batteries, StoreDot is a startup who makes batteries, and all of the other past articles about StoreDot's tech has called them batteries...
That's pretty much what this is, is it not? Nanomaterial and organic compound batteries designed for rapid, high efficiency charging and discharging.
 
StoreDot is also supposedly working on phone batteries.
 
And yeah, considering their use of organic compounds, I'd guess they'll probably have a shorter life expectancy than Lion or Lolymer, but I may be wrong on that.

what do you mean "as fluidly as my PC"?... do you know something I don't?

Damn, I got ninja'd. I was taking the time to screenshot it in P64 damnit. I DON'T EVEN HAVE A CONTROLLER! (Don't use kb+m, it works, but you die a little inside) 
 
Course 8: Shifting Sand Land (That bird is an asshole)
 
Course 12: Tall Tall Mountain (via Monkey or Cloud)
@ionbasa

Probably running on Dolphin, BotW Wii U edition 
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/this-is-what-emulated-breath-of-the-wild-looks-like-at-4k-resolution/

You obviously haven't played anything from Bethesda.

wow I never knew ctrl+shift+esc opened Task Manager! I always used ctrl+alt+del or right clicking the taskbar... thanks I learned something!

Wow, I never knew you could do that.

It's okay! We all make mistakes sometimes. Glad you found it!

Just because it can boot doesn't mean there aren't any issues. Please follow the instructions in your manual.

Is your video card 78C at idle? If so, that would make sense why it is cutting off during a game.
 
You should probably get a better cooler for that card, or at the very least, blow out the shroud with compressed air and reapply thermal paste to the GPU. It's pretty toasty. Is the fan spinning?

Worth Trying as it is usually a simple solution assuming you can get recovery and or install media to work.
 
Try an override not boot order. Try it as UEFI.
 
Sorry for the late response, I was out getting food for the first time today. Please let me know if this helps!