This bubble is largely self dependent with all invested parties incentivised to prop it up. Completely different type of situation.

The thing is, the “people” propping it up, are massive tech companies with collectively trillions of dollars to burn on this thing that is making their stock prices soar.

They have no incentive as the primary investors doing the circular buying to stop. The big problem here is the stock market provides awful incentives to everyone.

Lets not also forget that for a bunch of them, they want to completely replace lightning fast, simple UI with AI so they don’t need their own programmers, and your experience doing things is outright painful.

What gets me is that the bothsiders are still screeching about the situation they helped get everyone into.

Nuance, reality and pragmatism be damned.

It continues to be the least bad time to buy hardware at any given point in time for like 5 years running because it’ll always get worse. Sad days.

I mean, yea, trends exist.

The world progresses.

This thing is good.

What’s bad is the marketing dark patterns and mtxs.

Its not relevant at all, because people won’t do this. You are just restating the initial point.

This still is ultimately a huge problem to the vast majority of GPU buyers.

Those this advice could possibly be relevant to are already on linux, because no one is switching operating systems purely because one piece of hardware is no longer updated.

Just 1 part of the misunderstandings. Both can go to either area even if they are typically found in their respective ones.

Further, most who have herpes, even in the crotch region, will still show no recognizable symptoms and be difficult to test for.

Again, especially considering that condoms are not practically effective for preventing spread, and the results are typically not the horrendous cases you’ll have remembered, the stigma still isn’t worth it.

I mean, I suppose you could osculate and perform cunnilingus with dental damns, fellatio with condoms and no contact, and copulate and or engage in anal coitus in full body latex, but let’s be real, because you won’t be doing that, and most people who have it wont know they do, its the stigma that’s the biggest problem; the same fear that drives knee-jerk reactions.

You know exactly what nuance that “90%” means. I’m sure you’re willing to dismiss many popular multiplayer games as all “not being worth it” but not most people. Thats of course on top of the other reasons people have.

Has nothing to do with my GPU. That’s irrelevant to the points made.

Ha ha, andrew bad, I agree, but…

Most adults have herpes of some form (Double digit percentages for 1 or 2). Most don’t know because they don’t exhibit symptoms. Its basically never tested for because tests are not good for when it doesnt show symptoms, and because doctors feel the stigma is worse than the virus.

You can do research and find a bunch more sources than even the wikipedia article lists, but in essence, if you are at all sexually active as an adult, you almost certainly already have herpes.

Just reality.

The stigma shouldn’t be there for something this mundane.

This is stupid though. IP addresses in many homes rotate, so IP ban lists are utterly ineffective and could very well ban the wrong people.

Also fuck giving saudi arabia money. Sometimes its unavoidable, but this is a video game. There are other video games, but there is no regime worse than the saudi regime.

“bUt ThEy DoNt OwN tHeM yEt”

The price has been settled on, so any success from here on out absolutely does directly benefit the saudis.

To me, this seems like pretty much what they were expecting to do in the first place, and a classic case of pushing too far on purpose, just to back track to pretty much where they wanted to be; A plan that is a classic among big corporations.

I don’t think this is good enough, because it still would make future customers wary of buying their products, just to have support for new features dropped, in some cases, just days after they buy the product.

Some could argue that they don’t “owe” anyone that, but this is how the tech industry has worked for a while with its fast moving software pace. If NVidia, their only major rival, and even Intel, both continue to offer full fledged support for far longer than AMD, this continues to really dampen the reasons one would go for an AMD card.

Now AMD cards will have:

• Shorter prioritized driver support

• Less game support from devs (due to their lack of market share)

• Fewer games covered by their game specific features (FSR4 Suite) than their main competitor (NVidia with DLSS and FG)

• Trailing feature development (on average) when compared to their main rival NVidia

And users will be expected to accept this, all for a discount of typically just 50 dollars for GPUs of similar raw performance.

That seems like a very raw deal to me, and that is very unfortunate given the already greater than 90% market share NVidia commands in gaming and even higher market share in enterprise compute (AI included).

It really is an absurd set of choices to me.

If people can’t rely on your products working well for typical lengths of ownership from launch, even without the super strength, radioactive mammoth in the room of NVidia, its going to be a hard sell to sell your products.

I just refuse to believe development costs enough for this to be a rational decision for them.

Maybe they think people will see this, and then think nothing of it when they go to buy their next GPU? I mean to play devils advocate from their POV, many people don’t look deeply into companies and just buy based on a quick look at benchmarks.

The thing is, many buy off of even less than that, and if their enthusiast friends are telling them that AMD is not a brand to trust with GPUs, then theres going to be a big reputation problem. A reputation problem they’re already struggling with from years of being known for bad drivers, that they only recently shook.

when they stop support on windows you can always move to Linux and continue to get support for your AMD cards for likely years to come

You know this is not applicable for the vast majority of people lets be honest. Most GPU buyers either have some multiplayer games with “incompatible” anti cheat that they want to play, or simply don’t want the extra hassle (that linux enthusiasts would like you to believe does not exist), of switching to a new OS both from the inertia of already knowing a prior OS and from the reality that there are simply more hitches in a linux experience for a normal person due to less development support both from app makers and distro maintainers (purely due to less money and people).

To me, this seems like pretty much what they were expecting to do in the first place, and a classic case of pushing too far on purpose, just to back track to pretty much where they wanted to be. A plan that is a classic among big corporations.

I don’t think this is good enough, because it still would make future customers wary of buying their products, just to have support for new features dropped, in some cases, just days after they buy the product.

Some could argue that they don’t “owe” anyone that, but this is how the tech industry has worked for a while with its fast moving software pace. If NVidia, their only major rival, and even Intel, both continue to offer full fledged support for far longer than AMD, this continues to really dampen the reasons one would go for an AMD card.

Now AMD cards will have:

• Shorter prioritized driver support

• Less game support from devs (due to their lack of market share)

• Fewer games covered by their game specific features (FSR4 Suite) than their main competitor (NVidia with DLSS and FG)

• Trailing feature development (on average) when compared to their main rival NVidia

And users will be expected to accept this, all for a discount of typically just 50 dollars for GPUs of similar raw performance.

That seems like a very raw deal to me, and that is very unfortunate given the already greater than 90% market share NVidia commands in gaming and even higher market share in enterprise compute (AI included).

To me, this seems like pretty much what they were expecting to do in the first place, and a classic case of pushing too far on purpose, just to back track to pretty much where they wanted to be. A plan that is a classic among big corporations.

I don’t think this is good enough, because it still would make future customers wary of buying their products, just to have support for new features dropped, in some cases, just days after they buy the product.

Some could argue that they don’t “owe” anyone that, but this is how the tech industry has worked for a while with its fast moving software pace. If NVidia, their only major rival, and even Intel, both continue to offer full fledged support for far longer than AMD, this continues to really dampen the reasons one would go for an AMD card.

Now AMD cards will have:

• Shorter prioritized driver support

• Less game support from devs (due to their lack of market share)

• Fewer games covered by their game specific features (FSR4 Suite) than their main competitor (NVidia with DLSS and FG)

• Trailing feature development (on average) when compared to their main rival NVidia

And users will be expected to accept this, all for a discount of typically just 50 dollars for GPUs of similar raw performance.

That seems like a very raw deal to me, and that is very unfortunate given the already greater than 90% market share NVidia commands in gaming and even higher market share in enterprise compute (AI included).

If everyone was idealistic about every aspect of life, we’d all commit suicide very rapidly.

You might think this is super important, but to someone else, the reach of mainstream social media might be worth it for they care about an issue they feel is more important than yours that needs attention, or just straight up focus on other things.

You a vegan? You have solar panels? You buy clothes that you are absolutely 100% sure comes from fairly paid people the whole way down the line? You buy a fairphone? You using a linux pinephone? You… Its never ending.

Purity dramatics like that of your comment arent actually helpful and just demoralize people who are likely there with you 99% of the way generally.