Sadly not my coinage, I stole it from someone. :)

Non sensationalist broligarch funded shitrag version.

The more you buy, the more instability, you save!

Corbyn was an ostensive victim of character assassination because some of his progressive labour protection policies we’re a bit to good, they might make the people actually vote for him. He was removed from the party in one of the dirtiest campaigns I’ve seen to date. Fast forward to today and we see the result, the UK is fast moving to general “right to work” à lá USA, abandoning any pretense of being a civilised country.

Most people’s behaviours make them indistinguishable from cattle. Not to diminish them, just that, for the most part, you’re bound to think, live and express yourself locally. That makes you extremely easy to manipulate, especially when nowadays there are unthinkable amounts of data being collected on you at every given time. This, in turn, makes psycho history more a concept of the current reality than a fictional scientific discovery. I.e. the role of Cambridge analytica and Steve Bannon during the Brexit campaign. If these idiots can influence a country like the UK, against their best interest, what makes you think that the exact same strategy is not being employed on us at any moment in time, to maximise capital extraction? The proof is in the pudding. The last decade saw the largest transfer of wealth from the general populace to the 1%. We’re basically suffering the consequences of 3 generations of functional regards.

I feel your pain fellow SFF enthusiast. I did my homework this time though, and that’s why I paid a bit above MSRP but it did take a bit of attention and careful planning, including dedication to snatch a fitting model from the claws of the scalpers. All in all I paid roughly 110% MSRP for a nice custom model. Also, the Louqe Raw S1 is just an absolutely amazing sff if you don’t have special requirements for storage space.

Xtx for 900$ last year is a helluva good deal. You’re not missing out, with the added bonus you can load some hefty LLMs with that massive VRAM for consumer GPU standards, while paying a fraction of the only other worthy competitor, the 4090. Kudos

I can see some 5080s in the same picture. They can gtfo with those ridiculous prices. I got my 9070xt at close to MSRP, little more than 1/3 of local 5080 prices for 85-90% of the performance (and day one support for open source drivers…)

Good luck trying this within the EU.

I hope not, i seriously hope not…

Ty both.

Does anyone have a ZA/UM abridged (referenced) story including the less savory parts so one can make up its own mind rather than defaulting to the typical kneejerk reaction and joining the online circlejerk.

The only stories I’ve seen make it seem like there was a corporate rug pull but it was a while ago and I’d rather be more informed before writing them off entirely.

Better Tencent than microsoft.

Bapidi booopi?

Single boot to steamOS to avoid MS telemetry ;)

Absolutely. Jensen is so rich, if he wanted to spend his fortune, he couldn’t, within the habitual human lifespan.

All that success because in the late naughties and early 10s NVIDIA (at least in EU) were giving away free GPUs to universities and giving grants on the condition researchers would use CUDA. Same with developers, they had two engineering teams in East Europe that would serve as outsoucing for code to cheapen development of games as a way to promote NVIDIA’s software “optimisations”. Most TWIMTBP games of that era, Bryan Rizzo’s time, have some sort of competing HW defeat device. They were so successful that their modern GPUs, Blackwell, can barely run some of their old games…

I find it amusing that the company that is promoting brute force calculation of ray trajectories rather than using optimised code (competition defeat device) calls native rendering “brute force”. Meanwhile some of the best games of the past decade run on potato powered chips.

It would be hilarious if sony was ok with Steam OS though. Can you imagine MS selling consoles at a loss only for people to turn around and abandon their cancerous telemetry nightmare to use open source instead of trash windows. That would be so good!

If they are affordable, yes, otherwise, no. The 9070 at MSRP or up to ~10% is likely the best value of the last 4y. There has recently been a drop in EU and prices hit MSRP again in several outlets.

educated by what?

Educated, adj.