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While getting updates is great news, this presumably means that they either don't intend to leverage any new hardware capabilities until a decade after they com

by hedora 3y ago

While getting updates is great news, this presumably means that they either don't intend to leverage any new hardware capabilities until a decade after they come out (either in Chrome the browser, or ChromeOS). For example, this blog post commits to not requiring on-device machine learning acceleration until at least 2034. Otherwise, users will be stuck on a "secure" but obsolete web browser and/or old version of ChromeOS. I'm not convinced they thought through the implications of this policy.

esprehn 3y ago
They could use it, but make it optional?
- hedora 3y ago
  Right. I said they couldn’t do anything that requires it. For instance, a GPU is “optional” when browsing the web, but the last time I checked, even a high end xeon server CPU was too slow for it to be usable.