this year
And one post earlier (2025-12-20) that the image likely could be about:
NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal and lower support
Install nvidia-580xx-dkms from the AUR
Impact: Updating the NVIDIA packages [without manually changing to AUR packages] on systems with Pascal, Maxwell, or older cards will fail to load the driver, which may result in a broken graphical environment.
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Marked safe from
spiral cult
~~today~~ until they have mechs or can turn me into a "biocomputer*"
* head in a jar that can connect to stuff
It's not an issue with how you did the link, ~~I can view that thread on my instance but not the thread's host instance~~ see last bit.
Though there is an answer to your question: assuming it stays up, lemmyverse. (use fediverse icon link, remove https bit and plug it in)
For example, your comment on that thread works as a link: https://lemmyverse.link/feddit.org/comment/14366386
The fediverse link I get from that thread (https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/asklemmy/...) is just wrong for whatever reason? (even wrong on host instance!)
This works: long link, breaks if you shorten it
This also works: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/post/911357 (found via get-embed-code option, this is the sort of link my own posts get)
So non-comment thread link: https://lemmyverse.link/piefed.blahaj.zone/post/911357
Basic: .ogg / .opus support? MIDI player?
Advanced: Godot games, programming target?
This is also the sort of thing I could see having an OLED for longer battery life (+always-on info) not that I could justify the price. I don't even really need a second portable device (and my headphones situation isn't good either).
Maybe the sort of device I'm wanting is unlikely to exist, especially with some sort of battery compartment at this size and in this-day-and-age.
especially on Linux
This is part of it for me, haven't updated in a while (slow-ish shared internet) and then Arch moved the driver to the AUR. At this point I'd need to find a better distro, but aside from not finding one I like (with a better update structure that doesn't give me other issues) the GPU will still be a problem (or 2 because proprietary driver).
Me hoping for a hand-me-down Polaris+ GPU to replace my now-legacy 1050Ti: 
I think to myself, only half-ironically, "textures were a mistake" (pre-rendered cutscenes, too). Or at least the practice of unique textures on every model being the standard rather than the exception. It adds a lot of workload, and IMO is probably diminishing returns in many cases.
Sure, I get that it was a logical/necessary step when a texture/sprite saved on polygon budget. These days I think (visible!) vertex color is a very practical technique that didn't really get used to its full potential. It even makes a lot of sense when making a model to think about color via geometry. There's a lot of room for aesthetic choice with meshes, colors, materials/shaders, character/map design, and yes textures if they don't become bloat.
This is also why I dislike the idea of many remasters/remakes. Losing arguably the smartest* and most scalable solutions and switching over to much heavier (data and rendering-wise) replacements. Sure they made it visually stunning, but now I don't know if I can comfortably download/store/run a game that probably still has game-design warts from 20+ years ago (and new glitches added).
* For example, Spyro's vertex color skyboxes being replaced in Reignited. The original were iconic, aesthetically pleasing, they had a gamefeel reason (portals, seamless fly-into portal+fly-into-level), free by modern standards (so a toggle should be viable) they're just mesh globes! I could even see even some verts added to improve, or use of layers or more distant geometry to give it more depth.
That'll save money but I don't think it nullifies parts being expensive. My GPU is now legacy (1050Ti) because I didn't upgrade it when I did my 2019 AM4 build (sale prices were great). Ryzen seems like it's more expensive now due to its success.
With how prices are I'll probably keep using these parts until I stop using a computer.
It's absolutely true. And that my outdated Arch system is likely still more fresh than Debian.
That said yeah I would like something that can update itself whenever without breaking*, certainly if it expects me to update frequently. And manual interventions (ideally used for things that actually have a choice/fix, not just what ends up being a pasted command or two) should be a warn-step/update-blocker (depending on situation).
Though what the image is probably about (2025-12-20, nVidia 10-series turned legacy, legacy driver put onto AUR) is a bad situation in its own right particularly later when the AUR issues started happening. And it is really an update-or-don't (or get an AMD card somehow) issue.
Other distros likely do solve the issue of updating, though from what I can see aren't as good with packaging (dependency handling, lacking optional dependencies) and package availability. Which can be worked around somewhat too, but still needs more trial/input.
Annoyances are also multiplied for me by having non-fiber internet (also shared).
* TBC I also mean the act of updating itself (outdated keys etc), not just the outcome