You should only be using an old computer

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[–]solder0 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

There are workarounds for the IME with the "vendor's privilege", and the PSP wasn't anywhere near to being that terrible. But what I am worried about now is this thing from microsoft called "pluton". Look that up! I am seriously fucking pissed off with this, it's enough to make me ditch x86 and go with Open Power (PowerPC).

God damn it, I was going to go with an APU and use the onboard graphics with a workstation gpu. AMD seems to be on the pluton train too. Fuck, just fuck. Luke makes a good point, but as someone who feels the way he does about technology, it's probably easy for him to feel this way. Old won't cut it forever.

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What if you want to mine cryptocurrencies with CPU? I haven't seen any PowerPC options on my local market. Should I mine with GPU instead?

[–]solder0 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's a good point. I am going to stock up on some x86 dev board/SBC's to mine some monero. Look up odysee, or whatever it's called. It's from seeed studio. That might be good for that.