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[–] wabafee 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Here are some things I think will happen.

Nueralink first implanted to a human. Likely the first person gets killed also probably due to complications.

Increase lifespan of pig heart implants to humans.

Introduction of autonomous drones that are allowed to make decisions who to kill, I predict it's going to be tested in Ukraine.

We start to see more widespread effects of LLM in general in our society, lost of jobs, and so on.

Release of Windows 12, possibly backtracks Windows 11 decision of requiring TPM.

[–] MahnaMahna 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Release of Windows 12, possibly backtracks Windows 11 decision of requiring TPM.

I hope so, I built my own PC less than 4 years ago and it can't run windows 11. I don't care that much at the moment because I'm not a fan of some of the UI choices (and I only use Windows for gaming anyways) but once support is dropped for Windows 10 I'll need options.

[–] hperrin 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] KpntAutismus 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

while that is true, i can't recommend it to my "normie" friends yet. apart from me still dailying Win10

[–] GladiusB 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] GladiusB 2 points 10 months ago

Sorry. Yea. I don't know why I thought Mint was Lime lol

[–] MahnaMahna 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh of course, Linux is my everyday machine (I have 2 separate hard drives in my tower). I just haven't taken the time to figure out Steam yet, and there are some pieces of work software that either work like shit on Linux or aren't available at all (yes, I know Wine is a thing but it's not perfect)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Work is what keeps me away from Linux. That and games. I know things have gotten a lot better for gaming on Linux and that's great, it's still limiting, quite bluntly. The games I want to play are not all available on Linux, and some have been more or less abandoned, so they may never work on Linux properly.

Work is the worst offender, since a lot of "business productivity" software seems to require Windows, since nobody in business runs anything other than Windows..... Except if you're running web services, then it's usually Linux.... Almost every app has a "cloud" component now that relies on something running Linux.... But you can't get the client software for Linux because fffffffuuuuuuuuuuu

[–] MahnaMahna 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Ugh, I feel you on the work thing. We use the Microsoft suite and although technically there are online versions of the software, it's fucking terrible compared to the desktop version, especially Teams (and sometimes I just flat out can't get Teams to work in the browser since it doesn't play nice with Firefox). And no, I can't just use Libre Office because it will fuck up any previous formatting of word docs, or in the case of Excel there will be functions that aren't supported.

I've just accepted that I need to be my own IT support for anything Linux in most day to day applications. Calling or emailing customer service inevitably gets me the answer that Linux is not supported.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yep, then all the specialty application that are made, especially for peripherals like scanners.... Forget about it.

You might be able to get it to function at a basic level, but all the settings and customizable features are not going to exist, and you will also be up a creek workout a paddle if you need support, as you've correctly noted.

Linux is a wonderful operating system, and it does what it does very well. The fact is, all the business desktop application software companies stick to Windows because that's what most people have, and most stay with Windows because business app developers don't support anything else. The only time I've known of any users who had something different, it was almost always a Mac, and they always had parallels or some similar windows virtualization software installed because even their mac isn't supported.

It still caused issues, but it mostly worked at least.

[–] Rednax 4 points 10 months ago

You can install win11 on older hardware. Even update win10 to win11 from older hardware. It is just a matter of disabling the right settings.

For a fresh install, use Rufus to create the bootable usb.

An update install is a bit trickier, but you can check the following article: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-install-windows-11-on-older-unsupported-pcs/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Why is nobody else recommending buying a TPM? They don't seem that expensive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Is the TPM requirement the only one holding your PC back from installing it officially? There's workarounds to that

[–] Bytemeister 2 points 10 months ago

Release of Windows 12, possibly backtracks Windows 11 decision of requiring TPM.

Not going to happen. Microsoft makes a ~~lot of money~~ few bucks by locking windows keys to the motherboard.