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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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[+] -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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