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- Comment on NVIDIA To Bring Back The GeForce RTX 3060 In Q1 2026 To Tackle Current-Gen GPU & Memory Shortages 5 days ago:
No offence taken.
My desision comes from two factors that play together.
First I am relatively poor and if I save to painfully save money and give up on other things that are also important so I can buy a GPU I want to make sure that I pay as least as possible for the most performance, if it takes a day to render a small animation on an nvidia GPU, it will take two days to do the same on AMD at the same price point. Besides I want to try to do this professionally one day, if that is to happen I can’t let my clients wait double, they will hire someone else.
Also I use Linux, so trust me I would love to get an AMD instead and get proper drivers.
The other factor is that I don’t believe my purchases as single individual make any dent in the market whatsoever. I can’t get it in my mind, I’m just one person, there are billions out there with way more money than me. The children get killed in Palestine and the data centres boil the earth no matter if I personality buy nvidia or buy from amazon or not. It’s kinda of a paradox because if everyone thinks like me then collective action doesn’t happen.
It’s kinda similar how I would be vegan if I had to kill the animals myself, but I don’t believe that if I stop buying chicken that less chickens get raised and killed, the retailer orders 1000 chickens independently if I buy one or not.
- Comment on NVIDIA To Bring Back The GeForce RTX 3060 In Q1 2026 To Tackle Current-Gen GPU & Memory Shortages 5 days ago:
I would buy AMD, I really would, but for what I use GPUs for, 3D rendering on Blender (cycles), nvidia is must much faster for a card of the same price point due to optix raytracing acceleration.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 1 week ago:
For once, internet is a subscription service which not everyone can afford, just because you and all your friends can afford internet doesn’t mean everyone can, computers can be gotten for free, internet there’s no way around it.
But for the biggest issue, windows is spyware, the only way to use it while warranting privacy is by airgapping it from the internet and running it standalone, it is also the only way to be sure to contain cracked programs to make sure they don’t distribute illegal content from your IP.
It’s the way I run windows (when I have to) and I don’t like the prospects of not being able to run proprietary software securely when there aren’t viable libre alternatives.
Also, software being dependent on internet and therefore some company’s server means that eventually when said server or company shutsdown the program or device becomes useless.
- Comment on ISP tricked customers about fiber optics being used in their internet service, German court rules — 'full fiber' customers found to have 'last mile' copper connections 2 months ago:
I hate to be the one defending companies but this time I have to align with the ISPs.
As a “fake fiber” client myself, there’s virtually no performance difference between the two. But “fiber” has become such a marketing slang that most clients wouldn’t signup for an ISP if they don’t sell “fiber”.
Alternatively the ISP would have to replace perfectly functional infrastructures purely for the sake of marketing, resulting in waste.
- Comment on Samsung phones embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware 3 months ago:
That website is an excellent resource, but they can’t just expect everyone to have money for a pixel, even if privacy is a priority for me and many people, a pixel is just beyond the reach of the large majority of internet users.
Instead they need to make a curated list of less than ideal but still better than stock alternatives, or else people will just give up and get stock android instead.
- Comment on EU to block Big Tech from new financial data sharing system 3 months ago:
For now, get ready for chat control…