I think its great that your hardware works for you! My point was more concerning people who encounter an issue with older hardware (ie a driver that is no longer included in the kernel, people on 32bit systems, people on low memory systems, etc) being told to "just upgrade".
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?
That's a good shout, but I'm not even talking about me specifically. I've seen so many posts of people asking for tech support for things like how to get old closed source nvidea drivers working on the latest linux kernel, or what to do to make linux somewhat usable on a 1gb ram intel atom notebook (in both of these examples I'm pretty sure these were the persons daily computer and they couldn't afford better) now I got tech bros cheering on firefox dropping 32bit support.
Like if people don't know how to help, fine, but having 10 people just tell them to upgrade isn't really helpful.
My mother always made me work for it. She had a door open policy among other things. She didn't actually care if I was doing the things I wasn't supposed to be doing, she just didn't want to find out. If she found out, it meant I was being too careless/stupid. It's actually a really good way to build up your risk evaluation skills! I did occasionally get myself in trouble (not with sex but other things), and she would help me out of the situation. Id get a lecture about what I did wrong afterwards, but honestly she was pretty good at teaching me.
Unreal usually has an engine.ini file somewhere. You can more or less mod that file with as many parameters as you can find and nuke the graphics into oblivion. Has worked really well on most games I've tried. Especially useful with games that force trash AA and volumetric fog stuff.
There's hardware as recent as like mid-late 2000s that's 32bit. That's still within the realm of stuff that consumers might be using, let alone corporate/industrial applications.
Even if Firefox leaves us behind, the kernel likely won't stop supporting it for years to come. We just removed 486 support. Surely 32bit support will be around a while.
I had an aggressive gambling problem as a teen. 2016 would have been my worst because I was still gambling on counter strike skin sites. I'd save up every dollar mom would give me to run to the store or whatever (I'd lie and say things were more expensive than they were), throw it onto prepaid visas and just waste it.
I can't even begin to describe the amount that I spent.
I think its great that your hardware works for you! My point was more concerning people who encounter an issue with older hardware (ie a driver that is no longer included in the kernel, people on 32bit systems, people on low memory systems, etc) being told to "just upgrade".