alexklarjr

Too bad, zoomers, nobody asking you a permission. In fact, you are the first digital surveillance generation that delivering steady stream of data from your birth to your death. It will greatly help to fine tune digital gulag your children (if any) will live in 30 years.

I disagree, it is not really terrible, it is on par with i7 4770, i7 7700hq and even 10310u at two-four times less power consumed. 99% games are only needs 4 cores to achieve 60 fps, and apu is only limit for them at these extremely low TDP. AMD put a decent apu for balance, and compare to 6800u with twice more cores and 1.5 more powerful apu, they only lose 10-20% while consuming 2 times less power.

Ackchyually, apple only wanted to scan photos on your iphone so they can keep them encrypted in the cloud. They want to be compliant with laws, your government (people you never elected and never even seen on TV) constantly evolving to control you. In 5 years Linux distros will have same scan features because it will be new law that outlaw to own a PC without connected surveillance. It just another regulation. Your car already have eCall spyware mic/gps tracker, so you won’t really care. You just be disgruntled about new AI robocalls inside Windows or new build of “voice control first” GNOME desktop on Ubuntu.

well, systemd “services” are just bunch of scripts and init files.

and keep data on actual SQL server? No thanks, only boomers do it.

Also, “gens” are announcing/releasing during every year, starting 2010, so 7700 was released in 2016 and 13600 at the end of last year. Performance gains are shifting unevenly sometimes there is marginal gains, sometimes (when AMD bites) it is much more. For example i7 2017 is equivalent of i3 from 2020.

10 years old CPU (i7 4790) is still a decent and fully usable for everything except few unoptimised AAA games and jetbraing IDEs. It is performance equivalent to late 2021 mobile i5 10300h. The gap between different CPUs lines is huge. Back in 2020 you could buy a new celeron n3060 laptop with performance of pentium dual core from 2006. It was a straight e-waste, but people actually did something on it.

I think their processors are not including management engine, so you are safe to buy one. The management engine that included in chipsets can be switched off permanently. In general usage, it does not matter while you use third party controlled CAs, distro repositories and automatic updates, not speaking about microsoft, google, nvidia, valve, mozilla spyware that can do anything with your data anytime they (or US/EU government agencies) want.

>Blizzard added DirectX 12 support for their award-winning World of Warcraft game on Windows 10 in late 2018. This release received a warm welcome from gamers: thanks to DirectX 12 features such as multi-threading, WoW gamers experienced substantial framerate improvement. After seeing such performance wins for their gamers running DirectX 12 on Windows 10, Blizzard wanted to bring wins to their gamers who remain on Windows 7, where DirectX 12 was not available.

>At Microsoft, we make every effort to respond to customer feedback, so when we received this feedback from Blizzard and other developers, we decided to act on it. Microsoft is pleased to announce that we have ported the user mode D3D12 runtime to Windows 7. This unblocks developers who want to take full advantage of the latest improvements in D3D12 while still supporting customers on older operating systems

It will definitely work if you buy and use m.2 30 to 80 adapter, but it makes little sense as 2 tb 2280 ssd cost twice less.

If you happen to have AMD gpu on Windows you not only face buggy and unstable drivers, but also their Adrenalin control panel made with Qt. It takes up to 20% of gpu just to render text and do it so slow you have to wait it to appear. Moving mouse over consuming up to full core of 4+ ghz core i7.

Unless it is matter of national security. Then, you put masks on, sit home, let your locations transferred to CIA/NSA, update your device, have a full body scan and go some other country to be killed at war.

That means vendors should be legally forced to publish source code of any software they abandon / stoped providing support. Hope this will happen soon. Regarding Windows XP, full source code has been leaked already (not SP3 but close to recent).

Except WoW because Windows 7 is still popular in China and WoW is still not banned in China. Money talks, Dx 12 walks.