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[–] breadguy@lemm.ee 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Because I'm a Gamer! A Gamer! The most oppressed minority on the planet!

But the author's actual reason is:

Our hobby deserves better from the companies that made their billions on the backs of PC gaming

Which seems about as true as saying Microsoft made their billions on the backs of PC gaming.

[–] breadguy@lemm.ee 6 points 14 hours ago

we could always stop buying stuff there's a shit ton of good games that run on low end hardware

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 6 points 17 hours ago

They have been starving the market for months. All part of the plan.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago

Speak for yourself

[–] JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Was legit surprised to see my local microcenter sold out when I checked today. Pretty sure they had multiple hundreds in stock and now there's only 1 left today.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Is there still crypto mining stuff going on with GPUs?

It's partially AI, but in all likelihood customers aren't buying with AI as a high priority; instead, supply is constrained because most of the same production capacity is being used on AI-focused enterprise hardware.

[–] JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Not as far as I know most of the popular coins either use asic mining or proof of stake. Maybe they use them for memecoin or something idk.