Guess not, but as far as I ever knew, M$ has been known to try to maintain backwards compatibility for longer than most users would even consider necessary.
XP supported DirectX 7/8/9
I would have figured that would have continued on with future versions of Windows, but I guess Satya Nadella decided to scrap backwards compatibility.
Oh well, all the more reason I switched to Linux as my main daily runner after Windows 8 came out. 🤷♂️
Why would someone expect DirectX12 to not also support 11/10/9/8/7?
I just finished watching for myself. I think he held up pretty well and brought up many valid points and fact checks.
One thing I didn’t see anyone bring up much regarding the topic of abortion is the topics of the health of the mother and the baby.
When I was 2 years old, we were rear ended by an 18 wheeler. My mother’s head hit the windshield. They took her to the hospital and ended up prescribing her pain killers.
It didn’t cross anyone’s mind that maybe she was pregnant again. Once the doctors found out, they realized the pain killers were the kind that cause gross life threatening fetus/baby deformities.
There was literally zero percent chance that embryo was going to survive at that early point in her pregnancy. So the doctors had no choice but to highly suggest she abort the pregnancy. Otherwise she’d either end up with a highly deformed baby, or even worse she’d end up dead herself.
She regretfully had them carry out the abortion, realizing that her first child (me) was literally named after my uncle from my father’s side that only lived to be a day and a half old, because of intestinal birth defects where his intestines were formed on the outside.
Medical technology wasn’t so great back in the 1950’s when my deformed baby uncle was born, so there wasn’t much way to know that he would be born deformed. ☹️ My father decided to name me after him in honor.
By 1984, at my own age of 2, my mother was pregnant again, but nobody knew when the truck rear ended us. But medical technology had improved enough by then that they should have at least checked whether she was pregnant or not before prescribing her medicine.
The doctors made the wrong call and prescribed something known to cause extreme birth defects. So once they found out, they insisted she have an abortion, which she regretfully did, for sake of her long term health.
She still regrets that decision today to an extent, but my mom very likely wouldn’t even be alive today if she had carried that baby.
So, my opinion on all of that is, pro choice, and to hell with politicians or religious people practicing medicine without a license…
Water sticks to my balls as well 👍
Pretty sure they wouldn’t let random people access or adjust their public restroom timer though. 🤷♂️
I went into a public restroom in a gas station once that was set up with a motion sensor. But I didn’t immediately know that. It kinda freaked me out for a bit when after like 3 minutes the entire room went pitch black dark. I thought their breaker kicked off or something, while sitting on the toilet.
If it’s gonna be on a timer, it ought to be set for more like 10 minutes or something. I dunno about everyone else, but I don’t tend to do much of any significant movement when sitting on the toilet to keep the lights and fan on.
Verizon bought out Yahoo actually. I still have an email account with them, though I never check it anymore.
Wait, Yahoo is still a thing?
Logitech RumblePad 2 for the PC.
Basically a knockoff clone of the PlayStation 2 controller for the PC, from around 2008 or so I think.
Still mostly works somehow, except the mode swap button. I don’t even need that button anyways.
That could be very handy the next time she has me check out her phone, I’m not a Samsung user so my settings menus are different. Thanks 👍
Even though custom ROMs are an option, you shouldn’t have to jump through flaming tech hoops to get the basic generic options you want. Most people don’t know anything about any of that and ain’t gonna bother anyways.
Yes, and sometimes no. Try turning my mother’s phone off via the power button, it doesn’t work, because Samsung in their infinite wisdom made that the sleep/wake button and the assistant button.
I had to literally Google how to turn it off. Gotta hold Volume Down and Power at the same time to bring up the power/reset buttons.
So yes, they can be programmed, usually by the manufacturer though. Not like you can expect your mother or most any other average citizen to install, maintain, or configure a custom firmware.
And even if you do set everything the way you want, the next forced update is likely to revert to whatever the manufacturer thinks is good for you.
Cuz that’s software side, and they can always reprogram that as a future forced update.
Hell, I just got fucked over on a new phone by the manufacturer because they decided to force a home screen launcher update on me, without my permission, and without even informing me.
And yes, I disabled automatic updates as far as I knew. Still they janked me, and even a factory reset won’t remove this new fucked up DDU Launcher home screen.
I’m about to sling that phone into a brick wall, because they backdoored their version of Android.
Sooo… Why would I trust a software solution to a physical, legally required physical exit button?
I piss in the pot, I smoke from a bowl…
I mean like a dedicated physical hardware button, to go alongside the power and volume buttons.
It should be law that every device should require a dedicated Escape/Exit/Cancel/Close button of some sort…
True that.
Or stick with a trusted supplier. And even then, still be cautious.
That mini bag probably weighs more than the micro nugget it contains.
Yay microplastics!
How about the flowing hair on Lara Croft in Tomb Raider 2 and later?
From my understanding, they wanted to have that working for TR1 but missed the deadline, so Lara got a static hair bun in TR1.
I wasn’t suggesting that I’d expect newer DirectX to work on older versions of Windows. I was suggesting that I would have expected newer DirectX standards to still be backwards compatible with older DirectX standards.
Sigh, I guess Satya Nadella decided to scrap backwards compatibility. Oh well, I switched to Linux after Windows 8 came out anyways. 🤷♂️