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I'm still running a 1950x in my desktop. It works fine for most stuff, but the gaming performance is a bit low now with all of the spectre mitigations. I was planning on upgrading, but that will have to wait a few more years now.
I ran my previous laptop from 2012 until it died last year. I used it as my electronics workbench PC for several years because the battery wouldn't hold a charge, but it still worked fine for running KiCAD and programming microcontrollers. I replaced it with a used Thinkcentre that I got dirt cheap on ebay just before the RAM prices went crazy.
Same here, I'm waiting for DDR6 in 2028. Great CPU, at that date, it will be 10 years old.
If it's only gaming, you can disable them. Although i heard rumors, that some things work better now with the mitigations enabled than without.
I've got some games that are choppy with mitigations on, but they run smooth with mitigations off. I do temporarily disable the mitigations when playing those games, it's just inconvenient since it requires a reboot.