CausticFlames

I wanted to use Kvaesitso but f-droid has it listed for having proprietary components or depending on proprietary services or something so I got scared. Anyone have any insight as to what that's about?

Also, another K-9 user :3

Honestly IMO if you have even an inkling that you've been got by a virus, nuking from orbit is the only solution.

Grapehene has historically offered extended support, but for the longest support time the pixel 8 isnt a bad option. The 7a is also I think the king of budget phones right now but the 8 is on sale for a few hundred off the last I checked :)

It isn't like that at all. T-Mobile would've given you a better deal for taking a contract such as that, HP just decided they didn't want you to even THINK about purchasing ink or something from anyone else but them. It'd be more like if T-Mobile sold you a phone that you paid full price for, and then decided they'd remotely lock your phone and wipe it if you tried to buy a charging cable from anywhere but their store.

This is straight malicious anti-consumer bullshit, and it is basically rapist behavior. It's disgusting.

You cannot be real

Monero is far more efficiently mined with a hefty CPU and plenty of cores instead of a GPU.

Agreed 0.o

You are the one who brought up the question of even needing the CPU at all. Also, It wasn't meant to be an attack. Just an explanation as to why you'd still need a CPU.

why would you run x86

All I meant was a large portion of software and compatibility tools still use it, and our modern desktop CPU architectures are still inspired from it. Things like CUDA are vastly different was my point

But if what you meant by your original comment was to not do away with the CPU, then yes! By all means, plenty of software is now migrating to taking advantage of the GPU as much as possible. I was only addressing you asking "at some point do we even need the CPU?" - the answer is yes :)

GPU's as the ONLY compute source in a computer cannot and will not function, mainly due to how pipelining works on existing architectures (and other instructions)

You're right, in that GPU's are excellent at parallelization. Unfortunately when you pipeline several instructions to be run in parallel, you actually increase each individual instruction's execution time. (Decreasing the OVERALL execution time though).

GPU's are stupid good at creating triangles effectively, and pinning them to a matrix that they can then do "transformations" or other altering actions to. A GPU would struggle HARD if it had to handle system calls and "time splitting" similar to how an OS handles operating system background tasks.

This isnt even MENTIONING the instruction set changes that would be needed for x86 for example to run on a GPU alone.

TLDR: CPU's are here to stay for a really really long time.

I enjoyed megas far more than dynamaxing, so glad they're bringing it back somehow!

As someone currently pursuing a degree about something I'm heavily interested in personally as well, this gives me hope.