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Moonside wrote

I was not prepared for how utterly over engineered it was, but I kind of want to build a cheap knock off version myself. I have this feeling deep in my bones that I could build the actually useful parts in prettier packaging. Make it look like it was designed in 20's or 50's and shit.

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voxpoplar wrote

Non-Fungible Croutons (NFCs) have emerged as a groundbreaking development within dining, redefining cronch in your salad. Unlike traditional dietary assets, NFCs represent being crunchy, granting diners the ability to monch. This creation of cromch offers fans a new way to engage with their favourite salad, allowing them to have a tasty meal :). Cooks can sell food with croutons, ensuring ongoing revenue streams. As interest in NFCs grows, restaurants exploring innovative use cases, from exclusive salad releases to unique soups, establishing a new culture of monching that cronch.

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twovests OP wrote

Even if AMD would still sell all the GPUs they make, I still think the "invest in AMD and make it worth more by improving its libraries" is still an easy path to make a profit, right? If AMD GPUs could suddenly run all the models that Nvidia GPUs could do, then AMD stock would just be worth more?

This would fuck the buyer even more (making the GPU shortage even worse, I think) but I do like the idea of having a Linux machine with an AMD GPU in the next 10 years.

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devtesla wrote

So at the moment AMD is selling through as many graphics cards as they can make, so they don't specifically need this business. On a deeper level, for AMD all the silicon that goes into a consumer GPU is silicon that could have gone into a more profitable product. This is also true of nvidia tbh, but for AMD it's specifically their mobile products, consumer CPUs and enterprise CPUs.

So why does AMD make graphics cards at all? Shiping a high performance graphics architecture pays off down the product line, and eventually makes it into laptops, handhelds, and game consoles. I suspect this is why Intel is making graphics cards now, like I'd be shocked if there's any profit for them there at all but it could pay off in other products.

But yeah the bottom line is that the buyer is fucked. There's not a good reason for AMD to match nvidia on this type of spend (and it's gigantic, AMD does spend a lot and can barely handle gaming Lol. It's more than a dozen engineers!), so nvidia can charge what they want and screw over their partners as much as possible. I'm gonna hang onto my current parts for dear life.

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twovests wrote

On Steam, you're better off playing with Proton than with the native Linux version because of how stable Win32's API is.

I'm not surprised their solution starts at "statically link almost everything". (It's the big thing that makes projects written in Rust or Go, which statically link in compile time, so ezpz to use.) I really appreciated this post :D

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twovests OP wrote

I'd be happy to "Freaky Friday" our roles if you'd like to be the chatbot! While I can't literally become a human in our conversation (or puppy, for legal reasons in the State of California) we can certainly role-play this scenario.

Would you like me to ask you questions as if you were the chatbot? Or perhaps you'd prefer to put me down "ethical style"? Let me know what you have in mind, and I'm ALWAYS happy to play along.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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