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   Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jun-2025 19:58:07 JST Peter Tribble

   Here we are faced with an ever increasing mountain of e-waste, and RHEL and Rocky go and render even more perfectly viable computers obsolete by requiring x86-64-v3 (Alma, is slightly better, because you can optionally run that on x86-64-v2).

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     Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 06:12:50 JST Peter Tribble

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     • Charadon

     @charadon Oh I understand why they think it's necessary/desirable. It's unfortunate that you have a clash with what society would benefit from.

     Of course, the dates are when the cpu architecture was introduced. The chips persisted in the market for a while after that.

     Another thing is that I'm so used to having run systems for decades that dynamically optimize for the cpu found in the system that I'm somewhat surprised such techniques aren't more widely used.

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     Charadon (charadon@8bit.red)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 06:12:51 JST Charadon

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     I'll be the devil's advocate and say that these OS' target enterprise computers, and so would rather have the pretty sizeable performance gains over supporting some x86 chips from before 2013 that most enterprises more than likely don't have.