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  • 2 months

    Me to my 10 year old gaming pc: “I guess it’ll be another couple of years, buddy.”

      • 2 months

        Honestly, my PC at this point plays FFXIV and that’s basically it. And I’m OK with that.

          • 2 months

            Microsoft tried that with TPM. Which you can bypass for the most part with Rufus and a clean install. Still some kernel anticheat games you can’t do so so easily.

            I’ve already switched over to Linux, just got one more system to migrate. So far 100% worth it to not deal with Microslop.

            • What I am truly afraid of, is they somehow get ahold of Linux, and force slopware onto it, including that EoL bs. Keep offline devices as backup.

              • 2 months

                Uh that can’t happen with Linux. The closest you can look at is Red Hat, which doesn’t affect distros from Debian or Arch.

      • I agree. I recently swapped out my aging 2600x6core for a 5950x32core processor and upgraded from an 3070ti to a 5070 (well actually more of a sidegrade - my vram was simply too small). before this, my system had already a few years where there wasn’t much difference regarding gaming - In the current configuration and the glacial speed gaming developed i’d say i have a decade before upgrades are really needed.

      • Right? My APU can run almost all games up to 2020 in 3k. Not high-fps but i’m not sensible to that.

        Except a few, like Valheim and Empyrion, which have 1 fps on the menu.
        Do they require some special instruction sets or something, that a APU can’t handle?

    • Don’t worry, I suspect Cloud Terminals will be super cheap. You won’t even need that ol’ thing anymore!

    • 2 months

      Same here, running my 3700X with a 3080.

      I should’ve pulled the trigger on the 9800X3D last year like I wanted, but thought it was just too expensive.

      Welp.