That's how Intel hits you. First gen Ryzen motherboards can pretty much all support at least to Zen2. Now, if HP and Lenovo block replacing the CPU due to a locked in BIOS, that's another issue.

It only requires computers from 2019 or newer to be compatible. Windows 10 came out in 2015, so Microsoft not wanting to put full resources into a 10 year old operating system makes sense.

They have to be careful that things don't go horribly wrong. Oh yea, they put an Intel chip in there and it overheats and causes pain...that would NOT go over well.

The issue with the AMD chips was motherboard makers who completely disregarded what AMD set as guidelines for the chips.

I wouldn't be sure that we see few great minds these days, but the number of stupid people has been increasing at an exponential rate, and it is more difficult to find those great minds.

Many of the cancellations are due to increased risk of natural disasters. If you live near the coast and you KNOW the sea level keeps going up(more and more cases of the road flooding over the past few decades for example), then yea, insurance companies KNOW it's just a matter of when a natural disaster hit, not if.

Insurance....if something happens and you file a claim, the insurance company investigates, finds that you didn't properly report any changes, and they don't cover you for YOUR attempt not to pay for insurance on your stuff. Further, if one of these changes that SHOULD have been reported to your insurance company is the cause of a fire or the damage to your property, the insurance company won't pay out. So, think about THAT for a moment, you try to cut corners, thinking you are going to benefit by not reporting changes, and then end up being seriously hurt financially because of it.

George W. Bush and Trump were responsible for exploding the national debt with their bad policies. Tell me, how well did all those tax givaways to the wealthy actually improve the economy? Those wealthy people kept their money in banks or the stock market instead of spreading it around where more people would benefit. $10,000,000 given to the poor and middle class benefits the overall economy so much more than giving it to the wealthy.

Who do you think works in the upper end of the tech sector? Yep, highly educated people who actually understand that freedom means the government shouldn't be eliminating ESTABLISHED rights. So, all of those people who would move for the job would find the political climate in Texas to be repulsive, and will leave as quickly as they can, or the population of Texas will shift away from the pseudo-conservative nonsense that currently dominates.

I find it laughable that some people whine because they want to use CONSUMER level cards as a part of a commercial grade product they want to sell. Honestly, complaining if Radeon Instinct cards were locked down at least is at least reasonable, but these cards designed and intended for games, well, if you aren't using them for gaming, that's not the intended use of the product. Expecting the sort of support a professional grade product gets from a consumer grade product is delusional.

There are still a lot of questions about HOW these genes work. What about it causes the cancer, or is it just that combined with other things, cancer is more likely? That is what makes a lot of this stuff questionable, sure, it might do good things, but then make the individual psychotic at the same time. The thing then is, can you find a way to do the good things without the psychotic effect coming into play? On the other hand, if the source of a disease is known, using gene editing to eliminate that one element while keeping everything else, is that a bad thing?

The Democratic Party has been dominated by conservatives that they call moderates for decades now, but at the same time, with people without enough courage to actually fight for what they claim to believe in.

And looking at the Trump supporters, she was right, in the same way a broken clock is correct twice a day.

This goes to the heart of how the political system as been breaking down in the USA over the past 40 years. What we had was the Republican Party pushing further and further to the right. Now, those who were more moderate saw that they were being pushed out, so they jumped to the Democratic Party. Now, over time, this has driven the Democratic Party further to the right from where it used to be, to the point where many, if not most Democrats, are more like the Republican Party was back in the 1950s and 1960s. Now, Hillary...she got in with Bill Clinton, seeing that he was someone with the charisma to really go far in politics. So, she would just talk the talk in the way Bill Clinton did, still conservative, but Bill Clinton wasn't a progressive in any way, and really was very similar to the Republicans, again, we are talking 1950s and 60s era, not the Republican Party of today. The fact that the DNC itself is dominated by 1950s/60s era conservatives allowed Hillary to really gain control of the party, and it's as bad as the way Trump has control of the Republican Party. With politicians who are afraid to actually push hard and debate others, they don't have the nerve to call out people for being con artists, because they are con artists themselves.

They are PROBABLY talking about a software license key to unlock the AI features. Without that AI software unlock, you don't get the AI stuff. Now, this may also be to address the situation where many of us have been using a Windows 7 home or pro key, then upgraded to Windows 10 or 11, or from 7 to 8 to 8.1 to 10, to 11. Since we are still using the same product key, that's a lack of new sales, so, two product keys, one for the base OS, the other for the AI functionality.