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.
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My signal app tries to update itself. Installed from obtanium. It is a very irritating process, the thing tries to update, there is sometimes weird response times from clicking it (you click the notification and simply do not know if something is happening) and then without notice the thing restarts and then usually it works. But sometimes, the update notification still comes back. Because of that, I just update via obtanium
That is for sure true. And this variance that creates the "binning lottery" people talk about (and why there is some people that will pay premium for specific high binned parts)
So in this case, the rop were not detected because of firmware? Strange, but at least would be solvable. Let's see if this situation for the 5090 is the same
If the spec does not follow the expectations, I assume they have to recall those. Right? If not, someone is asking for an official recall and get their rears destroyed.
There is a lot to be said about the 50 series so far:
- reviewers by en large are extremely fed up with this situation (msrp is a value, street value is way more inflated. This skews a lot the review process)
- people simply cannot get them (mostly scalpers for now I would say)
- if we check in a vacuum the msrp and performance between 40 and 50 series, in the same segment is not an impressive uplift
- the 5090 PCB is a massive fiasco (if you do not know what the problem is, check buildzoid video on the 12x6 connector and PCB issue). And by the looks of it, 5080 might suffer the same
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.
Last time I heard, no drivers were available yet. So... You are getting a brick at this point.
That is an expensive door stopper that will evolve into a gpu
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.
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