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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Imo your best bet is to see if you can find someone else’s used gaming computer.

    Roughly ~400$ gets you pretty far for hardware 3-5 years old

    The energy efficiency will be much worse, so depending on how much you use it you may want to account for that and get slightly newer.

    In my personal experience look start in amd’s Am4 platform, as it’s quite upgradable up to a 5800x3d.

    But to start something like a 2700x or 3700x are solid cpus.

    Equivalent Intel cpus are an option too.

    As for gpus look for 1000s series nvidia 1070-1080 and onwards. Less than might be too weak.

    Similar for amd. Vega 56/64, 5700xt etc.

    Huh the 1080ti came out 7 years ago, so I was a bit off.



  • They’ve had fab problems for years, in that it cost them a ton on money and much longer than desired to shrink nodes, so they’ve fallen from a leader in fab production to being behind.

    Not to mention there’s not much money to be made from fabs, unless your tsmc.

    AMD, Qualcomm, Nvidia, Google, Apple, are all huge tech companies that design their own cutting edge chips, and only Samsung is another company that both designs and produces chips.










  • I have grown up pretty much my entire life hearing and thinking that protests are the way to bring about change, but everyone conveniently leaves out the fact that you have to build that political movement too.

    People want to show up for a protest and be done, many people don’t want to do the work to be an activist and work for change, and honestly I don’t blame them.

    Hell I know people who went to BLM protests, Palestine protests and pro choice protests… But don’t vote, so sorry if I seem overly critical of protesting. I’m just sick of prevalent idea that it’s all you need to do.



  • No, not really. One of the great america propagandizing myths is that protests are effective. They’re not, they can easily be ignored. What does work is organized strikes and planned disruptions of key targets with protests.

    In certain forms, or in conjunction with other forms of activism it can still work. For example tree sit ins to prevent logging.

    Occupy wall street, BLM, the protests when Row v Wade were overturned all largely accomplished nothing on their own.