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AMD denies researcher a $10,000 bug bounty after fixing critical auto-updater vulnerability — security flaw took 124 days to patch (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 52 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

Holy crap. I'd say not to buy AMD if you value your security (i have an AMD CPU and the Deck too). You already know the next vulnerability they're going to be the last ones to find out. In the news, probably.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    AMD now with their security stuff and Intel with the crashing and quick degradation stuff a while ago. Sigh.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    It was physics and battery sizes to blame for why we have drifted from the 5 GHz x86 CPU to the 32 core x86 CPU. I never thought the rush to ARM/RISC-V would be because Intel and AMD are run by morons.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Under Linux, AMD GPU is the only sane solution tho, due to open source drivers. And Intel CPUs have history of cookin hard.

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  • [+] -10 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    It's not. RISC-V and ARM exist. You can buy laptops based on either of these architectures for a very reasonable price, compared to Intel and AMD's x86 offerings.

    Of course, that means no AAA gaming, for the most part at least. But then again, who even plays AAA games these days?

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    But then again, who even plays AAA games these days?

    Err many people? And Linux gaming is on the rise too.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Linux gaming is perfectly fine.

    ARM gaming isn't. Let alone RISC-V gaming. Not AAA at least. You can play pretty much all older and lighter games on anything starting from Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Which is perfectly fine for me personally. However, if you want to play more demanding titles, ARM isn't gonna cut it at the moment.

    Err many people?

    Well, many people smoke too. Could not care less about it.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    But then again, who even plays AAA games these days?

    Gaming industry is way bigger than movie industry. Almost everyone plays games.

    Steam alone has like 40 million concurrent players right now.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    RISC-V and ARM exist. You can buy laptops based on either of these architectures for a very reasonable price, compared to Intel and AMD’s x86 offerings.

    Have fun dealing with that Device Tree bullshit because hardware autodetection is so 1998.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    It's all a matter of [relatively minor] investment into R&D. Would you prefer being a subject of Intel and AMD's perpetual x86 duopoly forever?

    They can set whatever prices they like, because nobody else is allowed to touch their little instruction set. With the tiny exception of a Chinese company whose best CPU is the equivalent of an 8th gen i5.

    You'll pay whatever they demand or you won't have a PC. Yeah, this is so much fun compared to 'dealing with ARM bullshit'.

    This entire architecture has lived way past its time. Intel and AMD being utter garbage corporations did not help in the least.

    Let it die along with those two dumpster fires, and move on.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Ok, so the alternative is buying Intel/Nvidia. Surely they've never done anything problematic, so this is a good plan.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    No no no. You buy half an intel chip, and half of an AMD chip. Then mush them together!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    ooooooh boy do I have a surprise for you! ungodly amalgation of an Intel CPU with a mobile AMD GPU

    (first time posting a picture here ever so there's a 99% chance I'm gonna screw this up)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Ya know......being alive isn't really that fun anymore. I've always loved the surreal humor, and absurdity that you can create nonsense from. How am I supposed to be a surrealist comedian if every stupid thing I say is actually real, and already happened??? Not to mention the rise of AI where even the stupid things that aren't real can be claimed as real? Old people already have enough issues understanding real life when everything is real life. I'm 42, and AI imagery and videos are starting to become hard to tell when something is fake. Imagine how indistinguishable it will be by the time I'm 80. The technology will be so advanced that AI will CREATE reality.

    Not saying what you posted is AI. I'm just saying that when I posted that, my line of thinking was "Ok, what's something really really stupid I can say as a concept?". That was what I came up with for something so stupid it has to be absurd.

    And then you showed me it's real, and already happened. How is my absurdist humor supposed to compete with real life when real life is SOOOOOO stupid already, and getting dumber by the day??? Oh, hey, did you guys see any of that UFC cage fight on the front lawn of the white house? I promise you, I'm NOT making this up. That's real. That happened. We've changed the genre of Idiocracy from comedy, to documentary.

    We live in the dumbest timeline.

    (btw, I upvoted you. I'm mad at real life, not at you)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The Steam Deck does run Linux right? Generally that means the used drivers are not written by AMD and also do not have an auto-updater from AMD. The deck is supposed to update through it's OS'es package manager and supposedly has the Mesa and Linux Foundation drivers in use.

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