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by rstat1 3y ago
People don't really care about facts. Only the next thing to be outraged by.
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by rstat1 3y ago
>> moving to a model of "signed software from power on to application level" for Windows. This already a thing with Windows 10 in S Mode. So definitely not that. There are quite a few CPUs that implement the necessary TPM cr
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by rstat1 3y ago
If their supported CPU list wasn't completely arbitrary BS, then you might be on something here. But it isn't There are CPUs that have no problem running the OS that are for no discernible reason "not supported". And I&#
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by rstat1 3y ago
So you want them to completely break every pre-existing Go program, for no practical benefit? That seems dumb.
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by rstat1 3y ago
You could also be in a fun grey area where your 6600XT will sometimes reset properly and allow the physical host to reclaim it for its own purposes. Or not and require a full forced shutdown and reboot to restore proper function. Let's
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by rstat1 3y ago
For the part that most people care about (which is the userspace side, that comes from the Mesa Project) you can freely update it to whatever is the latest version without really having to care about the kernel side. The only point at which
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by rstat1 3y ago
AMD supports VFIO on most of their cards. All of the RDNA based cards support it. Even some pre-RDNA ones too, and with a recent-ish driver NVIDIA's Geforce line supports it too without hacks. Problem isn't really HW support, its
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by rstat1 3y ago
MIT now, but in a few years when the inevitable need to make profit number bigger crops up they'll be doing the same thing. And there will the same backlash by people pretending that the change is some sort of grave slight and make bol
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by rstat1 3y ago
Of the 3 announced, 2 of them were anonymous and the 3rd was Shopify.
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by rstat1 3y ago
The are people who do pay full price for phones. Not many, but they do exist.
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by rstat1 3y ago
Eh people do pay pretty close to $2k US for those phones with the stupid super fragile and gimmicky folding screens. No idea why.
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by rstat1 3y ago
I mean 100yrs none of that crap existed so yea no shit they weren't doing that. But I'm sure there were things of a similar nature that existed then as well.
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by rstat1 3y ago
For 90's kids it was video games that were gonna rot your brain and make you a bad person. That turned out to be false. For 00's kids the new boogeyman is "social media". Likely will turn out false too. Just sounds like
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by rstat1 3y ago
Compared to $25 for a battery replacement that you could do yourself if it was replaceable kinda makes it seem unreasonable.
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by rstat1 3y ago
There's been many stories of entire companies being banned from Google services due to their affiliation with a freelancer who used the company account to brake Google's rules years ago for a different client. FTFY
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by rstat1 3y ago
from MSDN or Microsoft Learn (w/e): "WOW64 is the x86 emulator that allows 32-bit Windows-based applications to run seamlessly on 64-bit Windows" Sounds like emulation to me.
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by rstat1 3y ago
>>so unless Microsoft is going to start handling that kind of emulation natively They already do, and have since the x64 version of XP. Its called WoW64.
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by rstat1 3y ago
That's the power of the horribly unoptimized DX9-based renderer WPF was (is still?) built on. Worst part of WPF for me was the tooling that crashed whenever you so much as looked at it wrong.
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by rstat1 3y ago
That 2nd link you shared, has 3 links under "Documentation" to firmware downloads.
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by rstat1 3y ago
>>In a few years we might have better codecs This sounds like something could be done with a firmware update.
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by rstat1 3y ago
As long as it remains signed (and thus approved) by Apple.
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by rstat1 3y ago
They distribute games from both EA and Ubisoft that force you to use both companies launchers, that also just so happen to come with there own stores attached.
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by rstat1 3y ago
The fact that (baring exploitable bugs) you can only run Apple approved software on an iOS device pretty much makes it "THEIR machine" anyway.
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by rstat1 3y ago
If I recall that promise only applied if they ever stopped working on, which they clearly haven't.
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by rstat1 4y ago
Its Samsung phones that were caught doing that. It is most certainly not a lie.
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by rstat1 4y ago
Where did they say they were doing that? All I see is them saying they can, not that they are.
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by rstat1 4y ago
and the old folk that created all these things, don't bother to explain them, then get uppity when someone new comes along and doesn't think their creations are perfect. 2 sides of the same coin.
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by rstat1 4y ago
Yea I've watched a few of his videos, and he generally seems pretty knowledgeable, which why I was curious about that comment.
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by rstat1 4y ago
>hack job legal eagle I'm curious what made you say this
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by rstat1 4y ago
>The "believe the science" shills that just so happen to be the same people that write "study says" type articles? Otherwise known as the people with critical thinking abilities that don't latch on to every consp

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