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Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse (www.pcworld.com)
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  • Nvidia and Micron are making emotional appeals to consumers while PC users express frustration with big AI companies’ practices and self-serving motives.
  • Memory vendors predict DRAM and SSD shortages lasting until mid-2027, while new tariffs on advanced computing chips and potential Steam Machine pricing over $1,000 add to consumer concerns.
  • The article highlights how corporations use emotional messaging to mask financial interests, advising consumers to remain skeptical of such appeals.
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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 39 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Switch to retrocomputing; it’s currently significantly more affordable.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not a bad idea. How do you actually partake that hobby? Is it more the same building things or the challenge of getting old hardware/software working?

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 29 points 3 days ago (2 children)

A mix of both; finding old gear and combining parts to restore functional units, repairing where needed and learning more about how the systems work in the meantime.

And older SIMMs and DIMMs are relatively cheap right now — you can create a maxed out system for its era and still do everything on the computer that was possible to do when it was new.

There’s even great web proxies for older systems now, so if you want to, you can browse the modern web on a computer from 1996.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Well hey, I appreciate the recommendation. Maybe it’s time to get back into Windows 98 gaming. Just like mom used to make.

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 9 points 3 days ago

There were actually some genuinely great games in those days, with compelling stories and that still hold up today, it wasn't all Minesweeper and Pong.

A few highlights: Master Of Orion 2, Deus Ex, SimCity 2000 and 3000, TIE Fighter (or if you're rebel scum: X-Wing, or X-Wing vs TIE Fighter), Half-Life, Diablo, Starcraft, Warcraft II, Ultima VII: The Black Gate and Ultima VII: Serpent Isle, Mechwarrior 2, Age of Empires, Fury^3, Fallout 2, Baldur's Gate 2.

Don't be misled by the fact that some of these games are obviously sequels, or had console versions, or have had other sometimes even more well-known sequels and remakes since then. There are some genuine reasons to play the original specific game versions I'm listing here, to play them exactly as they were originally presented. Many of them have unique features and aspects that haven't been repeated. It's not just a Madden 15 vs Madden 16 situation, where you've played one you've played both. There may be a bit of rose-tinted nostalgia goggles in this list, I would certainly love the chance to go back and play some of these for the first time again, but there are also many genuine outliers even among their own franchises, that are unique and incredible, and genre-defining in many cases.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago

!patientgamers@sh.itjust.works looked smug as hell. They'd been telling everyone for years.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There’s even great web proxies for older systems now, so if you want to, you can browse the modern web on a computer from 1996.

Please tell me more.

[–] notthebees@reddthat.com 2 points 3 days ago

I really need to get a new display replacement for my old vaio f series laptop. The screen layers are doing the funny vinegar thing. That and some sort of ssd. Maybe a USB Dom or some msata thing with a converter board.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 0 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The solution is to use an old computer?

Sounds like copium

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I find it fascinating how the concept of coping with a situation has been made into a negative. "Get bent loser, how dare you try to make the best out of a bad situation". Hold on, let me unfuck the tech sector real quick.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It goes wrong when you try to convince me that retrocomputing is somehow better than building a reasonably priced new machine.

[–] FippleStone@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

Oh Steve, you're so misguided

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago

It is and it isn't. There's a ton of tech waste and lots of people get rid of systems that are still quite capable. Obviously there's less power but even a 6 year old gaming rig can still run most games, just at lower framerates

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Not copium when the purpose is different.