You do have a good point that at a certain point it is not possible to have assurances as in values. However, there are other assurances that can be even more important, such as, contractual ones. If they do not have the proper assurances at that level too up to a certain point, then everyone is highly blindsided on the c suite.

But my biggest point has to do with burning a massive bridge, the consumers, and take a dive into this nonsense.

You can always try second hand market if in your region is somewhat healthy. I am not entirely sure what is your use case, but for work related and studies I would advise to get a lenovo thinkpad of some kind. Durable machines overral and can be get for decent prices. Other enterprise level laptops also work

You are not wrong about the reallocation part. However, if you see the actions from micron (fuck you micron BTW), they are going all in and having a shit storm in PR on the consumer side. If they are taking these risks without proper assurances, then they are utterly deranged

For the dram unfortunately won’t be possible to use it in the consumer space, at least not in the current form. Hbm is really server stuff, and as is, you cannot repurpose it. As for the GPUs, maybe they can be used for the consumer space but I am not entirely sure the specs would be wise to use it at home, since they need some very serious cooling capabilities, as well electricity consumption. Biggest winners of this pop in my opinion would be anyone who need cheap server rack stuff.

As long am4 and 12th gen survives on these dark times we got chances of getting through this

And if the reminders are not set on a mailing list and you have no one looking at that, someone failed hard

A lot what you mention is for sure true. My problem usually is deferring infra work to people that should not do it. More often than not I see so called “devops teams”, and once I see the elements on those, is very clear people that are actually for infra are either insufficient, missing, or straight up not enough permissions to do stuff. Yo would be shocked how many times I hear managers say " ah well, I bet one ofb our developers knows how to do infra work"

There are tools to actually remind you to do this on a timely fashion… Also, some of them go as far as doing auto renewal. Is this such a hard thing?

Pretty much yes

Did you try to run the native windows version and see how it works?

The biggest problem I see on this case is basically the guy on the top calling these “people” an “opportunity” and then go after people that were actually doing something about it.

Basically the ceo is an enabler, and probably a pedo too. Pedos will go wherever kids are. Its up to the platforms and parents to also shield their kids

I can tell you one thing: this would not stop Nintendo layers if it was a Nintendo game, and they would be foaming from the mouth eager to take action

Which begs the question: if you, as a company, do not want to support the device on systems not on the short list, why not open source the main driver and let the people figure out how to make it work somewhere else? Is this such a stupid thing to wish for?

One of the biggest problems right now is AI=LLM which could not be further from the truth

I still find in general super creepy that anti cheat systems (most of them) insist on having kernel access instead of using, you know, actual statistics and machine learning.

I do have a question playing this game: how many decided to play with French language and subs? Somehow it feels that is the way intended with this game

There are a couple of things that can be done. Do keep in mind that most of these require some maintenance and checking, since windows updates are notorious for re enabling stuff:

• for windows itself, there are utilities like o&o shutup windows. This usually works quite well to go into the well hidden reg options to disable telemetry
• another good advice is to use such tool to straight up uninstall what ships with windows that you don’t need
• at the network level in your house, having a DNS block level service is great. Pihole and adguard come to mind. This solution is more involved and requires more time to setup, but has tremendous benefits not only on windows telemetry, but overall network telemetry
• if you are not in the capacity to have a network level service, setting up the machine to use nextdns is another good step. It is also a DNS block level kind of solution, but works by pointing the machine to the DNS to be used system wide. Do keep in mind is certainly possible for the system in places to use hardcoded DNS and ignore your options (at network level, you can always force to reroute to your local DNS. The case of DoH is a bit more tricky)

Hopefully this helps

The article is probably not wrong pointing out the price at this point for Intel. However, at least am5 side (maybe am4? Amd refuses to let am4 die) there will be more CPUs releasing. Meaning, you will have to spend a lot less to jump to a newer CPU (while the rest stays. The boards will probably need a bios update, but that’s it).

For this to be actually good to go with Intel, the motherboard would have to be almost no cost via bundles or something (good price, offering boards outright would be amazing but very unlikely).

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There is certainly a very big amount of fuckery going on right now with nvidia drivers. I simply did not know it was getting this bad. Also, I find very interesting the nvidia “open source” bit got the criticism it deserves (is just not open. There was a transfer of responsibilities, and one small part got open)