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      What an amazing middle finger. Very little knuckle, full fingered, fist in anger, lips curling for an expletive. Fucking beautiful form.

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      You gave me far too many laughs to justify in a simple upvote, thank you. lmao

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    The history of consumer computing is just looking at all the different ways Nvidia has figured out how to fuck said consumers over

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      Remember when we had to have a secondary nvidia GPU just to play games?

      Remember all of the fucky hacks, install orders, and workarounds we needed to make it work when our main GPU was an AMD card?

      Or when it was leaked for the 3rd time that nvidia was paying devs to make their game run worse on AMD hardware?

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      I don’t think they really are out to fuck consumers so much as they are an after after thought.

      The consumer space just isn’t able to pay what companies are paying and so in the words of Don Draper - ‘I don’t think about you at all’

      What is a bit of a dick move is their consumer division paying lip service and pretending like they matter to the company at all.

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        I think it’s rather telling that there’s not a single company that’s touching any of these currently insanely overpriced products and going, you know? I think I’m going to prioritize the human customers over the business customers. Sure, we may not make as much money, but we would have truckloads of goodwill and generate thousands of lifelong customers.

        And I understand the business reasoning for that, but great businesses are not built by bean counters any more than wars are decided by bullet rations.

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      Well, I guess I’ll just buy my hardware from a different supplie-

      sound of twin-engine B-52 Tariff Bomber zooming overhead, as wallet buster economic sanctions whistle towards their targets

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    I can’t believe the company pulling through with affordable but powerful graphics cards is Intel.

    This is like the season 1 bad guy joining forces against a greater evil.

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      AMD does the exact same as Nvidia. They’re just less successful with it. It doesn’t really matter who you buy from in that regard, I think.

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    More like pre 2025 and post 2025

    Nvidia always has been the biggest dick around hardware manufacturers

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    Yet people keeps buying their product. It’s almost as if voting with your wallet is all that’ll ever work.

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      Billionaires love when you think you can only vote with your wallet. They have many, many more votes than you. Nvidia doesn’t give two shits about your wallet compared to the ones paying them to fill datacenters.

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      voting with your wallet

      I’m terrified how many people think buying and selling stuff is moral, civic, and democratic duty. Econ 101 doesn’t even work in economics, why are we applying it to everything?

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      We don’t have the money to back up our vote in this ‘election’. If you could even call it that. Capitalism isn’t a democratic process.

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        If you havr the money for a Nvdia GPU, i think you have the money for an AMD or Intel GPU…

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          If you genuinely think they care about making a mere thousand bucks on a lumpy graphics card then you have been sleeping under a rock. Their costumers are Amazon, Microslop and Meta. Not you or me.

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            They would absolutely care if their audience flocked to AMD.

            Graphics cards are still roughly ten percent of their revenue, that is not a lot, i’ll give you that, but they are a stable income. When this AI demand inevitably dries up it would definitely still be in their interest to not have alienated the entire gaming community that made them in the first place and that Nvidia as of right now still dominate.

            They won’t be handing that to AMD. If for no other reason to not give them the financial space to chase them down in the AI space as well.

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            I am perfectly aware but that does not mean you should continue to buy from them, they still make money from them and they are evil as fuck also, when companies will inevitably start to buy less from Nvidia, it will be a problem for them

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            Now, yes. Not 10-15 years ago. Not 20 years ago when GPGPU was still a rather obscure concept. The Nvidia problem isn’t new regardless of how younglings and newly-enlighted seem to think so.

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      The sales of consumer GPUs make up a veeeery tiny percentage of nvidias revenue. Nvidia could stop selling consumer GPUs tomorrow and it wouldn’t even make a noticeable dent in their revenues. And what other options do u really have? Any other company ain’t much better.

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        Nowadays, yes. Wasn’t this way 10-15 years ago. I’ve been against their practices enough to not buy their product these last 20 years, which feels like a very lonely hill to die on.

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      Doesn’t really help that they got an almost monopoly on the market (with the only competitors being as shitty and involved in the AI circlejerk just as much).

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    just orderd amd videcard 20 years nividia 4 difrant computers last one lasted 8 or 10 years 1060 ad now amd 7090 feels rong but fuck nividia not listing to gamers and going ale in on ai and data vcenters