I admit it that I couldn’t find a source.

I remember reading an article posted here on lemmy around the time Asha Sharma shared her email to all Xbox employees about job cuts taking about how Microsoft focused on cloud and AI to the point they move around 4k engineers working as Windows team to other teams.

I believe they knew they’re losing the pc market. They dismantled windows team like 6 months ago.

Edit: I could not find a source.

The management quarterly meeting PowerPoint presentation says x3 more yachts for us.

Fair points, and I think we mostly agree.

I’m not defending Apple. The point is that the hardware outlasts the software support, and because the bootloader is locked, you can’t do anything about it once updates stop. That’s the e-waste problem you’re describing.

I’d only add that support has improved from the early iPhones, which got just a few years of updates, to 6-7 years now. That’s better, but it’s still a company-set expiry date on perfectly good hardware.

Open bootloaders and documented chips would let those phones in your drawer stay useful.

They’re the least bad guys.

Apple is great on longevity, but that’s not the issue here. Chip innovation has plateaued in recent years, so a 7-year-old iPhone is still plenty powerful. The hardware is solid, yet Apple locks the bootloader and never documents the chips, so running Linux on one means relying on exploits and reverse engineering.

In the 90s, the jump from 16 MHz to 233 MHz changed what a computer could do. A 1990 PC couldn’t run a 1997 game like Quake at all, and a 233 MHz machine ran it smoothly with 3D graphics. Today, going from 2.65 GHz to 4.26 GHz doesn’t unlock anything new. A 7-year-old phone runs the same apps and games as a brand-new one.

Once official support ends, you can’t just install another OS and keep using it. Great hardware, but not exactly open.

Maybe just detached windows and kept the installed game files.

Or used Bottles, Heroic, Lutris etc…

Did it just went rogue and installed arr setup for you?

This is how they escaped.

My pleasure.

It can be finicky sometimes playing videos but a long press of the play button would give you the option to reload the player.

Try Unwatched

It even have sponsorblock built in.

Try Unwatched

Here: https://marginalia-search.com/explore/random

Copy text from Excel now fails 50% of times.

I am willing to use Windows 98 over this shit.

I like it so much, and it’s my go-to search tool. Sometimes it struggles to identify official websites, but that only happens in about 1 out of every 100 searches.

I wish it had image search though.

It was Microsoft outlook copilot + x series x

For your hardware, the VRam is not enough to run 27b but, I’d recommend Qwen 3.5 9b for image / text to text.

And I’m planning to experiment with Qwen 3.8 9b for text to text.

4_k_m quantization is the sweet spot for performance and ram usage.

Also, I find Llama cpp is better than Ollama in terms of performance.

Local 27b models are good enough for most tasks.

Can’t wait to buy one of these from Ebay for 10% of the price next year.

Accurate and guaranteed!

They should allow quick unpolished genuine videos. I watch them all the time.

I use LibreWolf, where it’s enabled by default. Unfortunately, it broke a few sites for me. I recall two specific cases one a furniture store site with a 3D product viewer that stopped working, and an airline website that showed graphic glitches when I tried to print my ticket