
You do have a good point that at a certain point it is not possible to have assurances as in values. However, there are other assurances that can be even more important, such as, contractual ones. If they do not have the proper assurances at that level too up to a certain point, then everyone is highly blindsided on the c suite.
But my biggest point has to do with burning a massive bridge, the consumers, and take a dive into this nonsense.

For the dram unfortunately won’t be possible to use it in the consumer space, at least not in the current form. Hbm is really server stuff, and as is, you cannot repurpose it. As for the GPUs, maybe they can be used for the consumer space but I am not entirely sure the specs would be wise to use it at home, since they need some very serious cooling capabilities, as well electricity consumption. Biggest winners of this pop in my opinion would be anyone who need cheap server rack stuff.

A lot what you mention is for sure true. My problem usually is deferring infra work to people that should not do it. More often than not I see so called “devops teams”, and once I see the elements on those, is very clear people that are actually for infra are either insufficient, missing, or straight up not enough permissions to do stuff. Yo would be shocked how many times I hear managers say " ah well, I bet one ofb our developers knows how to do infra work"

The article is probably not wrong pointing out the price at this point for Intel. However, at least am5 side (maybe am4? Amd refuses to let am4 die) there will be more CPUs releasing. Meaning, you will have to spend a lot less to jump to a newer CPU (while the rest stays. The boards will probably need a bios update, but that’s it).
For this to be actually good to go with Intel, the motherboard would have to be almost no cost via bundles or something (good price, offering boards outright would be amazing but very unlikely).

Just because something is popular does not mean you will like it. Different tastes and all that.
As for me, more variety means more reach to gamers out there. What I don’t like to see is stagnation for years on established IP to the point is becomes boring (for me personally, Pokémon falls a lot into this category for most releases. The only Pokémon game I liked recently was arceus, simply because the whole battle and catch system got revamped to be something different for once)
It’s a high paced fps in general. The original mode is semi roguelite, meaning, you have to go every 10 floors in order to get a checkpoint. If you don’t, back to the previous checkpoint and get different perks for the run.
For me the whole cyberpunk esque thing about it sold me. And is also a quite unusual sort of shooter.
Only a tad short, that is my biggest complaint (but price does match the time so I can’t say much)

I do use windows for work as well, but if people want adoption, it starts at home. I do see a need for Linux distros in general will have to make even a bigger shift for the user needs instead of whatever agenda people like to imply (I think open source is a good goal, but if I introduce Linux to someone, I will not for certain preach endlessly about this).
We need more adoption, but I also see some camps will decide to further distance themselves from these groups of users.

As people already stated in the comments, this may not be a permanent change for some (they find out something like destiny 2 refuses to work on Linux without bans, some other tools needed for certain use cases are not there yet or windows only), but I think is super important people understand there are alternatives, and not only windows or Mac. Hopefully gives more people awareness that something else is out there. And would be really cool if we had more of the user base that is on the verge to throwing away the machine because of windows 11 restrictions and instead, gives machines a second chance.

The word you are looking for is elitism. Clearly, people who think you have to have x amount of time on anything to have an opinion belong to an elite that clearly do not understand no one can enjoy the same media the same exact way as they do. I’ve had so many games that I get, start, 2 minutes in I just do not want to give it more time, return it (case in point: Helldiver’s 2 immediately after the tutorial I just realized was not for me). If I wanted to give a negative opinion I would be more than entitled to it. I had a game, didn’t like it, returned it. That’s it


I watched hub review and this one, not sure what to make of this. Some games is actually quite alright, some it gets heavily stomped. In general, price sounds OK but depends how much they cost in the end on the stores. For all intends and purposes, if the price is met then its in a much better showing than the 5070 and 5070ti for the price point. If the price goes down eventually for the 50 series (which over time, should) then it becomes a bit more difficult to choose this over the 5070ti (vram capacity is still a shit show at this price for nvidia no matter what).

What I see in general in the indie scene people are much more willing to experiment with different concepts than regular AAA. For that alone I think is always a good idea to check the indie section. But I am also aware since there is a lot of volume, there is also a lot of straight up shovelware, which makes it difficult to navigate. By people talking about it, we can have more visibility as a group to see what is actually good and what is not from such a big selection.

There is a lot to be said about the 50 series so far:
My opinion regarding the pricing issue is going to be decided in the next months. If people cave for scalpers or pre scalper prices, price anchoring will be in full effect for next release. If people as a collective get a back bone and don’t cave in, prices will have to be more normal than this nonsense. Still the connector issue for 5090 really needs to be addressed in an official capacity for nvidia to do something about it.

This is true not everyone out there has the capability to go out and have something like Linux, or the best version of windows 10 on their machines. But most people here are either knowledgeable enough, or have enough patience to try something like Linux out. If you know people that are in this position with their current machines from windows 10 to 11,and are not tech savvy, help them, and try not to be patronizing. Help them out by installing something like mint or Ubuntu and walk with them on the system, as many times as needed. If they cannot get used to it or find something that simply won’t work, don’t try to force Linux on them. Just find the best windows 10 version and install it. At some point if something doesn’t work anymore on windows 10 and they want to keep the machine, they will reach out to try Linux again, or, they will try to sell the machine they cannot operate with anymore (or give away, depending on the situation). Either way, help people out but don’t be abrasive if things do not work out the way you wanted.

You are not wrong here. However, this is a double edged sword. By running windows 10 after a good while (let’s say, after 1 year of eol) you are risking for malware that is going to be non patched on windows 10. Of course, if you use the PC mostly for gaming and get stuff mostly from the usual places, I really doubt you get anything. If you work with documents however with macros and stuff, or you might have questionable internet hygiene or foreign external devices like usb on a frequent basis, do not get close to an out of date system

I have to say, in general this doesn’t happen too often. But if you are afraid of this scenario specifically, my advise is either use a separate partition for the home folder (this is where all user installed things go, as well downloads, documents and pictures by default) and make a backup in some other drive with something like timeshift, or use something a bit more advanced namely immutable distro. I will give a bit of advise here: immutable distros can be extremely unintuitive, so if you want to try and understand it, go for a VM and take a weekend playing around. For gaming, bazzite comes to mind for this specific case.

That is far the only blunder we should account for. I still remember that:
Frankly I don’t really play anything where 2k, Activision, ubisoft and ea touches (and I am sure my list is not complete. Also, anything denuvo can go take a hike). They all deserve to go under. I just wonder sometimes people getting excited to work on projects on these places to be squashed by the realities of “number go up” from these soul suckers.
You mean the arson connector? Shout out to dawid