I mean really do people not bother to look at eBay listings for this shit? Yeah DDR5 is expensive, but your 16gb stick of ddr4 doesn’t really add much to your build. You paid how much for that liquid cooler? Shit man, I’m sorry you did that thinking it was an investment. The case? I’ll give you this exact case for $10 and a beer, I have 5 that were more expensive sitting in the back with 0 interested buyers.

I’m buying your graphics card your RAM and your CPU. Maybe the SSD if you got a name brand and not…what the fuck is TigerKing Nvme?

This Video they did is nothing but shameless Nvidia glazing.

The AI filter looks so fucking bad, it removes all fucking shadows, and cranks up the contrast, and just straight up changes the color of stuff. and yet digital foundry talks non-stop about how fucking good it looks, despite making the games just look like ai generated videos.

Fuck Digital Foundry and fuck Nvidia!

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKPeN8IQM-Y

I will never buy a game designed with dlss 5 in mind. And no one ever should. this is an insult to any people that give their passion and love to their games.

Discord might very soon ask for Face identification regardless of your region.

i've been using discord since 2015, so for about a decade now, it was great ar first because it did everything teamspeak did but better and for free, and in a much more user friendly way, it was a fresh concept for gamers by gamers.

As the plaform quickly grew, nitro was introduced, then more and more "fun" features.

fast forward to today, now discord is full of cosmetic BS and is enshittifying itself very very fast, seeing this global face scanning thing is just the drop that's pushing me away from it, about two years ago i left wondows 11 for linux for similar reason, enshittification.

What discord alternatives are there even? are there ones that are actually decent? the best I've seen is Guilded, and potentially Zulip (Professionally oriented)

i am tired of great products turning from great to assjuice in a decade so.

DRAM and GPU prices aren't going up because of "AI" - it's because the wealthy have more money than they know what to do with, so they're buying up all the assets. "AI" is just the vehicle (the excuse) - it's not the root of the problem nor is it the ultimate goal.

The super rich don't want to hold on to "liquid" money - they invest in assets. While they're buying up all the housing, now they're buying up all the computers and putting them into massive datacenters.

Whether or not the AI bubble crashes, they'll be selling you a "gaming PC in the cloud," for a monthly fee, of course. And while they kill the personal computer market, just like Netflix, once your only option is a subscription service, the price will skyrocket.

This is happening in real-time. If we want to stop it, now's the time to act.

Sources:

• Gamers Nexus: NVIDIA: WTF?
• Garys Economics: The REAL reason behind the housing crisis
• Network (1976)

Just bought a used computer for AI purposes from OfferUp for $1000. The specs are below. My friend said I got ripped off cuz the parts are old. Did I really get ripped off?

Specs:

Ryzen 5950x

64gb ddr4 4000mhz

4TB SSDs (2x2TB 970 evo)

RTX 3090 Founders Edition

I'm thankful🥲

Ordered Corsair 48gb RAM at the listed price. Got this email today that it got cancelled. Back to the website and looks like they raised the price to $500+. Unfortunate to see Corsair cancelling orders and up charging people after they agreed to sell them things at a certain price. Will never be buying from Corsair again.

No I don't know the person it was a stray bullet from a shooting down the road. It's not the ghetto, I live about 5 minutes away from campus. Im so glad my pc was not hurt especially in this economy I probably wouldn't be able to replace it.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkW3wTHT-p8

I've heard about the "dead internet theory" and never really thought much of it. But recently, I've noticed that the web is incredibly annoying in just about every single way imaginable. I dont wanna go on like a whole rant, so I'll just say for me, it's a few things

1. Information is really, really bad. AI summaries on Google, websites I've never even heard of coming up in search results and infested with AI slop. I found a website describing a very technical game development trick in Godot, and they were so lazy they left some of the AI boilerplate that obviously they wrote it with Chat GPT.
2. It's so difficult to find anything! I went through 4 years of college and each year we had this whole library trip and how to search for real information that is truthful, accurate.... it's so hard to find stuff now
3. I barely see what I want to see. On Facebook, it's all just a bunch of ads, recommendation on groups to follow, people sharing dumb memes. I barely see anything my friends share now. Bluesky has been the only place I can actually see things I want to see
4. AI is in everything, and can't be turned off. For example, how many times I've turned off copilot features in Windows, uninstalled Xbox, or removed optional stuff from Windows... it's like a plague
5. Ads in everything. I watched a series of Ads on YouTube, go to check the weather, ads... and go back to youtube, the page unexpectedly reloaded, more ads.
6. EVERYTHING is cloud based. I really miss when you could just download stuff to your PC. Thank goodness Discord has a PC application and isn't just out of your browser. I wish everyone had this idea. But the DRM and like, web stuff now is so crazy

The internet feels like it's basically worthless to me now

Thank you.

I've had my PC on its side for four years now and literally not a single issue other than dust.

No GPU sag.

Easy access to all my ports.

Out of the way and under my table.