Really depends on what you’re trying to do. Done a few budget builds for folks who were attached to Windows but don’t multitask.

Someone who keeps their activities limited to one browser tab and one document/spreadsheet can get by just fine on 8GB.

Might seem very restrictive to most of us, especially here on Lemmy, but there are people who live their lives just like this.

Also, bit cheeky of Microsoft to do this right as they’re introducing new Surfaces with 8GB at what used to be the 16GB model’s price point, lol.

Prefetch / Superfetch may represent a portion of that usage.

I’m the opposite, it really enhances the immersion and clicks for me. With some Audiobooks, dialog is a major challenge when there’s no clarity as to which character is speaking. I don’t have that issue when reading though.

The Harry Potter full-cast audiobooks are greatly enhanced by the sound effects - for example, the screaming paintings in the Black house audible in the background during character dialog

Only if the CPU and motherboard support quad-channel memory, which is usually only found on High End Desktop platforms. Even the high end consumer CPUs you might consider for a new build - like a Ryzen 9 9950X3D or Intel Core Ultra 9 285K - are limited to dual channel.

In Ryzen’s case, the officially supported memory bandwidth is reduced when you populate 4 modules. For the aforementioned 9950X3D, you’re guaranteed support for 5600Mhz with two modules and that drops down to 3600Mhz with four. Whether or not you actually have issues will depend on the properties of the unique CPU you end up with / silicon lottery.

Some older TVs from that era were finicky about certain HDMI signals, notably those coming from PCs.

Folks encountering issues with streaming often don’t have the host PC connected via ethernet while the client should be on WiFi

There is an important qualifier, though: devices can be HDMI 2.2 certified without delivering the very fastest data speeds, so you'll need to study the spec sheets of any potential purchases.

That’s not going to confuse anyone /s

What’s the point of having a “standard” if it’s really more of a standard…ish?

Split-screen on PS5 requires PlayStation Plus for both players.

What the actual fuck?

From the linked article:

After five years of waiting, Microsoft has now shipped the ability to reposition the taskbar in Windows 11. Both OSes now support the same four positions: Bottom, Top, Left, and Right.

I wonder about the gripe of having to go to settings to make changes to the taskbar. Are there really folks resizing or repositioning their taskbars on a day-to-day basis?

In my case, I haven’t really been bothered by most of the Win11 taskbar gripes. I strip my Taskbar down to be somewhat minimalist, only showing the start menu button and whatever apps are currently open on a given window. It’s something that I set up once after OS install and then never really touch again. The only option I miss is having all system tray icons show all the time - in Windows 11, that can only be manually managed so when an app updates it defaults into the tray’s submenu.

Having the start menu be nothing more than a set if pinned apps and then alphabetical list of everything is great and aligns with how app menus are structured on mobile devices, not that I tend to engage with it much. My engrained habit at this point is to press the windows key, first three letters of the app I want to open, and then enter.

Just what community do you think this is?! I don’t come here for interesting, quality content and the wikipedia article doesn’t even mention anything about him shitting on a post!

They make a post asking Lemmy users a hypothetical question as to how they would go about doing it

Gmail is functional at what it sets out to do, which is send and receive email.

The sender is not expressing privacy concerns, they’re expressing functionality / utility concerns.

Outrage?

I build PCs for a living, I’ve been pitching gamers the 16GB baseline / 32GB futureproofing ‘no worries’ for more than 5 years now.

Be interesting to see how this guy’s treatment compares to Luigi’s

Phones, Tablets: Exist with glued-in but ultimately removable / reinstallable screens

Microsoft: What if we mix crushed up eggshells into the glass?

Save-a-click:

This beta version of the app makes it so that when you send just a URL, the recipient only sees the preview (primary image, page title, primary domain of web address) That preview gets a color stylization to match the page and the font is different.

The author doesn’t elaborate on the headline bait “We’re not sure it’s for the best”

What’s your threshold for “old”?

Couple more demanding games / difficult to run at launch that come to mind for me:

Cyberpunk 2077 is about to be 5 years old (2020)

Red Dead Redemption 2’s PC Port is about to be 6 years old (late 2019)

Metro Exodus is coming up on 7 (early 2019)

If this is your first foray into Ray Tracing capable cards, Control makes good use if that feature (Mid 2019)

Shadow Of The Tomb Raider was used as a benchmark for years (2018)

As you start going older than that, even the Steam Deck ends up being very capable.

People had a rough time with Batman Arkham Knight, still looks pretty IMO (2015)

If you’re looking for games that are coming up on 15-20 years old, like Crysis:

S.T.A.L.K.E.R (2007)

Metro 2033 (2010)

Rage (2011)

Doom 3 (2005)

Elder Scrolls Oblivion (2006)

That’s quite a headline they’ve got there!

After provisioning a PC with a Windows 11, version 24H2 monthly cumulative update released on or after July 2025 [KB5062553], various apps such as StartMenuExperiencehost, Search, SystemSettings, Taskbar or Explorer might experience difficulties.

This will occur for the following: First time user logon after a cumulative update was applied. All user logons to a non-persistent OS installation such as a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) or equivalent as application packages must be installed each logon in such scenarios.

If you are wondering, provisioning essentially is the way admins configure devices as they automatically deploy various settings and policies on a client PC. So while the issue is in office PCs, considering a huge number of enterprise PCs are Windows, this is probably a very big problem.