JohnEdwa @ JohnEdwa @sopuli.xyz

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SSE4.2 specifically, POPCNT is part of that. It was introduced in 2008, while the previous requirement for Win 10, Win 8, and in Win 7 after a 2018 update has been SSE2 from 2000. So Windows 11 bumps the oldest hardware requirement from 18 years up when introduces to 16/17 years.

FWIW, I believe from Linux Mint 20 onward it doesn't have 32-bit builds so it isn't compatible with processors that don't support x86-64, and the first Intel processor to support that is from 2004.

It's not about the speed - the minimum requirements for Win 11 are a 1Ghz dual-core processor and 4GB of RAM- it's because of the processor generation. Not sure if there's been an official explanation, but the going consensus is that they aren't going to officially support almost anything that is susceptible to Meltdown or Spectre.
That doesn't mean Win 11 doesn't work or couldn't be installed on that hardware, they just don't officially support it.

You did try drying it in a dehydrator before you did that, right?
Because I have spools almost that old, they print fine after a night in there. Brittle as dry spaghetti if I don't though.

PLA as a raw material is really cheap - you can get it for as little as a few dollars a kilo - and a lot of the cost of a filament roll is just making the spool, packaging, and shipping it. In the end, the price difference between 250g and 1kg of PLA on a roll is rather tiny. Goes the other way too, you can buy 5kg rolls that come down to just $10-15/kg.

The same reason why a can of cola is so expensive compared to a big bottle.

Because the internet has made it both easier to do, and to enforce.

But it's not a new thing at all, patents and copyrights have been enforced from pirates for well over a hundred years. This is from 1906

They should. But you can't exactly be surprised if you get in trouble because you broke the law, no matter how stupid you think that law is.
I think it's stupid that you can't always turn right on a red light. Plenty of people would agree. I'll get a ticket if I do it anyway, and it'll be my own fault.

Libraries buy either physical books, or licenses to ebooks, and can only lend out as many of them as they own at a time. IA skirted the line by lending out self-digitized versions based on how many physical books they had, which was a grey area, but technically maybe not illegal.
They then disabled that lending limitation.

There's really nobody who would argue that taking a CD, ripping it to MP3s, and providing those for unlimited download is anything except piracy, and the people suing IA are claiming same goes for books. And it is rather hard to find a compelling legal reason why it isn't.

Predictive text is literally the one thing LLM AI would be the best at, and for some reason we don't seem to use it for it.

NACS is essentially CCS in a Tesla plug, so the only reason there isn't any yet is that nobody has made the switch yet - any CCS charger could be converted by just swapping the plug.
But it also means passive adapters work and are cheap, so there's no hurry really.

I absolutely loved the Mako. I know I'm in the minority, but I just love how it drives. And stomping on a Colossus with the jump jets is always funny.

Because people who want tiktok content watch it in tiktok, and those who don't don't like the format in general.

If tiktok started hosting half an hour long documentaries it wouldn't be any wonder that nobody would watch them, as the userbase doesn't have the attention span for that and they aren't scrolling tiktok for that type of content.

I personally have only one user whose shorts I watch, B. Dylan Hollis. And even there I would much rather prefer longer videos, but I'll take what I can get.

There is also a TTRPGs for Palestine bundle here, though I have issues reaching the site currently, might be a hug of death.

I actually didn’t encounter anyone saying Dark Souls and like games being an ARPG. Dark Souls like games are usually called Souls like.

That is because everyone uses the term "Souls-like". But if that term isn't used, then they are all labeled as "Action Role-Playing Games":

A Soulslike (also spelled Souls-like) is a subgenre of action role-playing games known for high levels of difficulty and emphasis on environmental storytelling, typically in a dark fantasy setting. -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulslike

The system in Japan is... Let's say "interesting". You get sentenced to death, but you might still sit in prison for years or even decades until one morning they carry it out with no warning, so you'll live the rest of your life not knowing if each day is your last or not.

I almost agree, as there are only very few crimes, and in absolutely certain circumstances, where I think a death sentence would be appropriate. As an example, cases like Anders Breivik.

the exact same way that we distribute every single other patch in Linux.

Which is?

I see you’re unaware of the number one rule of the Linux Kernel : DO NOT BREAK USER SPACE

For sure, my linux experience is limited to playing around with raspis and the Steam Deck, and running apt-get update / upgrade and accepting everything at once. I haven't actually even had a need to refuse updating something individually so I have no idea what the protocol is if I wouldn't want to update some application. What I do know is that basically every single linux application has dependencies and if you don't install, update or remove exactly what that application demands you to do, most of them refuse to install or update themselves - blocking updating because you have or don't have something else on your system seems to be basically the norm with Linux.

How would that patch be distributed?

Lets take VLC from this Windows example, the one that blocks windows updates is a really old version of it. If you have that, you need to either uninstall VLC or remove it to get Win 11 to update.

If there was a bug where having a really old version of VLC on your system would somehow break if you updated the kernel, would a complicated workaround patch be integrated into the kernel just in case for forever?
Or would the patch work exactly the same way as windows, where it would check for that version of VLC and tell you to remove or update it first?

If it's going to be anything like XP and Win 7, no, but actually kinda yes.

Microsoft wants you to upgrade to win 11 so they don't offer the updates for you, but if you refuse they'd still much rather you don't just run an unsecured Windows for multiple years so the security check to enable extended updates is rather easy to bypass almost on purpose.

But we won't know until after they drop support.

$61 is exactly how much Disney Plus Premium increased their annual price in the past hike few months back, to put it into perspective (from $79 to $140).

That's most likely going to take a long while though. Win 7 ended mainstream support in 2015 and extended in 2020, the last chrome version to run on it is 109 which was released in 2023.