Not 10 years. For example, another commenter mentioned the 7700 CPU which is from 2017. Keep in mind that 2017 was the launch of this CPU which means it was available to consumers for a couple of years at least. So presumably you could build a new system around 2019 which is just six years ago and not make the cut.
Microsoft is wrong to do this. There is LOT of capable hardware out there which can provide value. The TPM 2 limitation is completely artificial, as you can install Windows 11 anyway with a quick hack and it will work fine.
We have an HTPC with hardware from 2008 (mainly the board and CPU) which runs absolutely great. It still manages to surprise us with how capable it is. We are going to use this thing until it absolutely dies with no hope for recovery.
> Not 10 years. For example, another commenter mentioned the 7700 CPU which is from 2017. Keep in mind that 2017 was the launch of this CPU which means it was available to consumers for a couple of years at least. So presumably you could build a new system around 2019 which is just six years ago and not make the cut.
Apple seems to get a lot of praise for long term software support and the latest iOS doesnt support hardware released before 2019 as far as I can tell.
In fact Linux is probably the only major exception to this, and if you need commercial support for 10+ year old hardware it costs $$$$
> Apple seems to get a lot of praise for long term software support and the latest iOS doesnt support hardware released before 2019 as far as I can tell.
iPhone XR/XS that were released in 2018 indeed can't get the latest iOS (26.) The good thing is that security updates for the previous iOS versions (18, 16) usually roll for a year or more. Currently, iOS 15 (from 2021) is the oldest version still receiving updates (15.8.5 was released a month ago) and the oldest devices capable of running that are from 2015.
> Apple seems to get a lot of praise for long term software support
Not aware of this, and actually, it seems like the contrary. Apple repeatedly deprecates stuff and makes users and developers dance around a rather quick, and very unreliable software deprecation cycle which makes it terrible to do anything long term on Mac.
MacOS is worse, my experience is that you might get ten years of support. The Apple Silicon migration is making it worse and shortening the support periods.
A 2017 MacBook Air can only run MacOS 12 - which was unsupported last year, giving a total of seven years of support. Yes, you can run OpenCore Patcher if you want to stretch the definition of support.
> Apple seems to get a lot of praise for long term software support and the latest iOS doesnt support hardware released before 2019 as far as I can tell.
Probably more relevant here is MacOS 26 doesn't support anything before 2019 either. And it's not because they dropped x86 support entirely, it still supports some Intel Macs. Just not many.
> For example, another commenter mentioned the 7700 CPU which is from 2017. Keep in mind that 2017 was the launch of this CPU which means it was available to consumers for a couple of years at least.
The 8700 that replaced it is also from 2017. The 7th gen was extremely short lived for whatever reason
From Microsoft's perspective you are running unsupported hardware. You're getting updates for now. But any future update might ban your system, disable your updates or even unintentionally break your system. It makes sense Microsoft are being more lenient about it at the moment, but a year or two from now? I wouldn't count on it.
As for myself, I didn't bother with Windows 11. Converted all my daily drivers who were still on Windows to Linux. On one machine I have a dual boot Windows 10 LTSC IoT just in case. This gives me 7 more years.
Honestly, big tech companies have screwed me enough times that I just sort of plan for it. So, I'll cross that bridge when it comes to it. My running policy is to keep all the files I care about on a Synology NAS that syncs to a backup cloud over my Wi‑Fi, and then have all my laptops and PCs just have easily replaceable common downloads on them.
I use S3 glacier on Scaleway (European cloud provider). Storing about 3TB costs me about 7€ per month including VAT. I've had to restore 1TB in the past and it cost me around 10€. Not bad for a worst case scenario. They also do mini VPSes for 3€ per month with unlimited traffic. Really nice provider, I've used them for many years.
I've only tested partial restores from Glacier since it is expensive. I've got a raidz2 array locally as insurance against having to restore from a backup.
> A 18 Tb NAS harddrive is about 320 USD. A 2 bay unifi unas2 199. It pays off in one year. Restoring data from it is free.
That single 18TB HD is hardly safe from a disaster or even plain old hardware death, and it's a single point of failure. You need at least 3 times as many HDs to start to have something you can actually rely on to keep your data for 3-5years.
Sadly the vast majority of consumers are not going to care, or worse, they could think that the local option is inferior. Most people don't run their own automation. A lot of people don't even set up their own WiFi. Mainstream products, as expected, aim for the least amount of required knowledge.
Around 2005 digital cameras were commonplace. Mobile phones also had cameras by then, even if not very good ones by today's standards. Maybe you're talking about an earlier time?
It's not that Cameras didn't exist, more that the technological features were not sophisticated enough to enlist cheating compared to now. A personal OCR Python library wasn't a thing back then.
Not saying that cheating was impossible but uneasy unlike to now where there's a library for everything.
Nobody argued that it was impossible before. Nor did I claim that there were no cameras before 2005.
Cameras just weren't as ubiquitous as today. Unironically arguing that point is silly. They just weren't (I know you didn't, but we're in a comment chain that made that argument).
Yes, in most groups of people, there were a few of them that had cameras readily available, but it wasn't the norm for everyone.
What was available (not just cameras, but ocr etc pp) was a lot less accessable then it is today - where you just point your phone at it and it transparently extracts you the full text of whatever is on screen/lens, consequently the issue got a lot more problematic and widespread, which was the only thing what was put forward here.
This might have been the case where you were, but it wasn't everywhere.
I was about 15 at the time, I'd had multiple digital cameras and had a phone with a crappy camera on it. All of my friends had digital cameras. Myspace had already peaked, Facebook was taking off, and that was largely driven by kids taking pictures.
The idea that the ability to take a photo wasn't ubiquitous for big parts of the western world in 2005 doesn't seem accurate.
I hate how incompetent tech writing and marketing rewrote and simplified mobile phone history into pre/post-iphone. Yes, we did have touchscreens, smartphones and camera-enabled devices many years before the iPhone. Arguably, on several metrics, many Symbian/Linux/blackberry phones of that era are better smartphones than today's iPhone/Androids as defined by hardware capabilities which got removed over time while arbitrary constraints got added on the software front.
Don't know about other markets but the first iPhone didn't sell well especially because it was behind the high end feature phones of the time for a more expensive price.
I had an Ericsson R320s at the time and that was the web page that convinced me to replace it with a Nokia E70. The joystick stopped working after many years and there was no fix for it. I switched to E90 and I hated the keyboard. It took a lot of force to press the keys and there was no clear key separation to touch-type. But that was the phone which I dropped on the pavement while riding the bike at 80 Km/h and it survived with just scratches! The best 3 phones I ever had.
Now I have a N86 which I'm going to keep until the last 2G goes offline.
haven't had a chance to try this myself, but i've been told e70's joystick simply needs disassembly and cleaning (perhaps with a judicious application of wd-40).
An MCP server doesn't have to have "simple" tools. Having very powerful and effective tools allows you to create great context for the LLM. I don't see any way Skills are better then this; on the contrary, now the "tool executive" is more dependent on the model, introducing non-deterministic context issues.
In the same vein, tools are also easy to iterate on, they are quite simple to implement, and their description is entirely up to you - you can limit how many tokens this description will consume.
This feels like going in the wrong path in a way, but we'll see how this evolves and what are the use cases.
It's worth mentioning that 10 also has LTSC variants, the IoT LTSC version in particular will be supported with security updates until 2032 if I recall.
Seriously, it's clear to see way ahead of its release there is zero chance this thing will replicate the unique experience of the vectrex.
This is just a cheap cash grab which will misrepresent what the vectrex was all about and what playing it felt like. Add this to the pile of worthless nostalgia devices.
There is just no reason for this to exist other to exploit the nostalgia and then immediately disappoint the owner of this product.
How on earth is this better than a raspberry pi with an emulator and an oled monitor? Who the hell needs this vendor to put it a box? Did you notice "injection mold plastic" is literally the first and most prominent feature of this thing? What an utter abysmal joke.
I wish these poor remakes and nostalgia releases fully commit to what they're trying to do. If you can't, just don't do it! We don't need your facsimile junk.
Microsoft is wrong to do this. There is LOT of capable hardware out there which can provide value. The TPM 2 limitation is completely artificial, as you can install Windows 11 anyway with a quick hack and it will work fine.
We have an HTPC with hardware from 2008 (mainly the board and CPU) which runs absolutely great. It still manages to surprise us with how capable it is. We are going to use this thing until it absolutely dies with no hope for recovery.