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.
Ngl, if you have computer hardware 10-15 years old, be prepared to replace it anyway, that's about the longest I've kept a GPU alive. Though I do otherwise agree. I have an AMD rx480 that is a perfectly serviceable card, except that AMD dropped support for it several years ago. Moreover, it's been 10 years and AMDs drivers are still ass. Every year I go 'oh, this will be the year of the AMD GPU' and every year I am shockingly wrong. My Nvidia rtx3060 is starting to show it's age a bit. Not too much, but enough that I am considering an upgrade. I wouldn't care so much of I could use the 480 for compute but nope.
The 30 series cards still support 32 bit phys-x, so if you get a newer one you can still use your old one to run mirrors edge glass etc. the nvidia drivers even support splitting certain loads off onto certain cards…
Good call out, I hadn't considered that