I've recently seen a trend in tech communities on lemmy where people have developed this mentality that computer hardware is as disposable as a compostable cup, and that after 10-15 years you should just chuck it in the bin and get something new. If someone asks for tech support, they'll just be told to buy new hardware. If someone is saddened their hardware is no longer supported by software they are just entitled, need to pull up their bootstraps, and "only" spend $100 to get something used that will also not be supported in 5 years. It doesn't matter if there is actual information out there that'll help them either. If the hardware is old, people will unanimously decide that nothing can be done.
I've seen this even in linux communities, what happened to people giving a damn about e-waste? Why is the solution always to just throw money at the problem? It's infuriating. I've half a mind to just block every tech/software community other than the ones on hexbear at this point.
It’s very deliberate and forced, the software side justifications for requiring mid-to-high tier hardware produced in the last 5-6 years are incredibly weak.
Entirely related, hardware from said time period also suffers increasingly from planned obsolescence and expensive upselling.
Videogames and their communities are by far the worst offenders. Had a friend see me playing a game on my laptop at 720p resolution the other day and they pretended to be offended by it. "that's unplayable!" Like, says who? Tech influencers paid to set your expectations too high?
ive been this friend tbh, and for good reason. a friend of mine uses an old m1 macbook to play everything and she will sometimes complain about input lag. i tried her setup and no joke, it had about 50-80ms of extra input delay when running rhythm games through ARM wine. it was actually comical and a bit silly.
Oh, that'd drive me nuts. I've got like one game that won't run well on my Linux system, and it's like... not even WINE's fault. That game is notoriously laggy on Windows, too. It's not a hardware limitation, better hardware would do literally nothing to speed it up, I know because it runs exactly as shit on my nice few years old system as it did on my older-than-me shitbox when I was 10. I've tried running it with all the graphics options at their lowest, it helps not at all or an imperceptibly small amount. So all better hardware's gotten me there is that now the cats and dogs in the game look nice and fluffy and huggable, and the water in the world map is reflective.