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    (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 02:38:28 JST 
   AVX2 is a psyop designed to make people switch from the last generation of CPUs without hardware backdoors.
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     Pawlicker (pawlicker@makai.chaotic.ninja)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 02:47:57 JST Pawlicker

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     @mint@ryona.agency just wait till you talk to @iska@catposter.club about the TSX rabbit hole

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      (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 02:56:44 JST 

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     • :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading:
     • Pawlicker
     @m0xEE @iska @Pawlicker Windows 7 did the same after some update, breaking the system on every CPU without SSE2. But at least it's been around since Pentium 4.
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     :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading: (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 02:56:45 JST :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading:

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     • Pawlicker
     @Pawlicker @mint @iska
     BTW Windows 11 is to require SSE4.2 after an update for… who the fuck knows what :marseywtf:
     https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/13/microsoft_might_have_just_pulled/
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     :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading: (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 03:16:13 JST :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading:

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     • Pawlicker
     @mint @iska @Pawlicker
     I didn't know that, probably wasn't using Windows at the time so I didn't care.
     To be fair, this only affects rather old CPUs too, on the other hand, my dual pre-Nehalem Xeon workstation still looks more than capable to me :marseyemojismilemoutheyes:
     But not enough for Windows 11 now — not that I wanted it anyway.
     Still, I think that at that time people were mostly upgrading their hardware willingly, they no longer do that now. Anything that's less than a decade old (and in certain much older) does the job just fine, so they have to impose requirements for new hardware artificially. Last year they have already done it to Windows 11 on ARM, which made their own old Lumias obsolete — yep, it was possible to use desktop Windows 11 on a phone before that update :marseylaughwith:
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      (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 03:17:52 JST 

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     • :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading:
     • Pawlicker
     @m0xEE @iska @Pawlicker They have some agreement with Qualcomm that prevents them from releasing the system for devices that run on other ARM SoCs. Pretty sure it's also one of the reasons why there still isn't a version that could run baremetal on M1/M2 Macs.