Their excuse is they spend more time on their phone and it's more important to them. Further, Windows 10 and their PC works just fine, so that $100 dollars stays right in their pocket.
the modern hardware requirements is really at the core of the slow migration.
plenty of people auto-upgraded to windows 10 on PCs that once ran Windows 7, heck probably even Vista.
It seems there's been trend for a couple generations now where the price/performance of a new card matches the price performance of the outgoing gen's cards.
So, not only are "tiers" getting more expensive, but so are the $/frame.
In short, today's $400 video card isn't blowing the doors off a...
is it possible?
yes
Should you do it?
research some benchmarks comparing Ryzen single channel vs dual channel memory performance and decide whether you accept the performance loss
If not having a user interface doesn't bother then, try Vyos
If you have any experience with Juniper or Ubiquiti Edgerouter CLI then you should pick it up quickly
what browser? have you tried another?
bring up a command prompt and "telnet IPADDR 80" (install telnet client if necessary). Does that connect to your end device? Replace port 80 with 443 if device is https enabled
Since we're confessing our GPU sins...
I recently sold a 5700 XT to an admitted miner because they were a well-know purchaser and I was offered a good price.
I've considered this too. I was going to make the swap, but was hesitant for a number of reasons.
I've decided that when I complete my playthrough of Psychonauts 2 I'm going to sell my 5700xt outright.
From there, my daughter will get a handmedown 1600X to upgrade her 2500K w/ RX480.
Then I'm...
Gamer ethics aside, what does everyone think of flipping a 5700XT to a miner and picking up a 6700XT that's somewhat faster in gaming?
I've read some rumblings about people doing this.
Unless I can come out ahead or do it for a net-zero expense, I'm probably not interested in the hassle.
Go ahead and use mental gymnastics to eliminate the myriad of thought paradoxes all you want...
Discover me a real means of transporting my current self to a previous state in the universe and you have my attention.