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Yes, registrations are locked out since the email system is broken due to the evolving anti-spam landscape. No need to panic, my email still works and allegedly I'll still respond to that

oh my bad I can leave again

Lol I haven't been gone that long. But last I checked in the dev team was going dark for a while when it comes to community interaction. I imagine it's still moving along behind the scenes unless there's been any big developments I've missed.

heck what'd the forums end up doing for April Fool's?

In the year of our lord 2022 2023, I'm content leaving "Guest" as "Guest" since there's more than unconverted accounts using that label. The other two though can be done.

I'm usually all on board the "web is bloat, return to native code" bandwagon, even going a step further to "80x24 oughta be enough for anybody" sometimes but... Web tech absolutely has its uses especially where development resources are scarce, it actually is pretty efficient if you are the tiniest bit mindful of your step, but most of all:

If your potato is of such quality that it can't run a browser, like, that pretty much kicks any kind of game that isn't text based straight out of the picture. And even some games that are text based. Web browsers run on every potato except fossilized ones, that's one of their main benefits.

EDIT: Wait, what are you doing on a 32 bit computer? Even Linux distros are dropping support for 32 bit. The last ones of those were made like over a decade ago, and they were horrible, horrible things barely suitable for word processing. The last 32 bit CPU worth anything is even older than that.

It was 60°F (15.5C) here today but here, have some symbolic snow in symbolic celebration of the symbolic holidays and warm yourself in front of a nice, toasty computer/laptop/phone/other such device.

I've heard a few times from a few people that this is the OEM list and does not apply to existing PCs, but at this point we've had a company VP confirm that it'll apply to upgrading PCs as well as a compatibility/health tool that is following those guidelines. Like you pointed out, those guidelines have also been updated to remove the previous "soft floor" limits like 1.2, and despite backlash MS hasn't rushed to backtrack or clarify anything, they're sticking to their guns that these are the requirements. The CPU whitelist really isn't making a lot of sense, either. AFAICT Zen and Zen+ are identical, just a process update. No new features were included in Zen+ that should justify excluding Zen. I think the same goes for 7th gen vs 8th gen on the Intel side. No new features, just more cores.

Everyone's laptop is too old to run windows 11. AFAICT none of the hardware that Microsoft themselves is currently selling, even for multiple thousands of USD, supports Windows 11, although I'll admit I did not search at all exhaustively.