Yes, yes they are.

I’m not qualified to explain this well. But there’s the concept of velocity of money. The higher velocity that’s supposed to mean the economy is doing good. Generally it’s between lots of people so it’s spread out. In this case it’s only between a small handful of companies, and as soon as it starts drying up then bad things can happen really quickly.

Yes, yes they do. And many are considering that they’re doing this.

A slower CPU sucks, but swapping sucks even more. Is the ram upgradeable? You can get 16gb ddr3 sticks of ram. Idk how much EOL/the ram pocalypse has affected their pricing though.

Why would that make you an asshole?

TPM is built into every 8th Gen. Intel and Ryzen 2000/3000 series CPUs.

7th Gen. and older machines are pretty dire by modern standards unless you had a top of the line i7, or an HEDT equivalent (did they still make those then?). 1st Gen. Ryzen suuucks for single core performance, but for video editing it’s probably ok. But you’d have to pick your codecs carefully. Even modern CPUs chug with certain codecs.

Apple causes most of the shortages of new process nodes because they almost always buy them LONG before they’re ready. Any time TSMC has a new node they buy out their entire supply for months.

Not all strands of weed cause anxiety in people. My co worker looked it up a while ago, i forget what it was that caused it.

Even if it’s windows 11 that they meant then what are they doing professionally that runs at acceptable speeds?

If this is actually for work where you get paid money you’d probably be better off financing a new computer and doubling your output.

If you don’t need the internet then why would you care about not having the latest Firefox?

It’s fine to use old unsupported OSes as long as they’re isolated from other machines and cannot access the outside world (and you’re careful).

But nobody should be unironically using Firefox on windows 7. Windows 7 has been EOL for over half a decade at this point.

I played games for years at 30 fps. Yeah more is better. But a GT 310m can only do so much and I wanted to play Battlefield 3.

Could be poor mastering. You can’t always just take a track and squish it down to a low bitrate without tweaking some settings.