I suspect that has a lot to do with it. I do wonder how much of those deals were above board and how much of them were… not.
I’m running with a rig I built in 2018. I’d hoped to upgrade around the 10-year mark, buuuuuuuut I might see if I can wring a little more life out of everything longer. My 2080 Ti is, thankfully, still chugging along but I’m sure that won’t be forever.
Yet another hobby I’m quickly becoming priced-out of
I refuse to believe that these component shortages weren’t at least somewhat intentional
“You don’t need to run your A.I. locally. Pay us to supply the A.I. for you! Let us handle your personal data instead. It’s safe with us. Promise. What? You want to use that graphics card for gaming?! Well, that’s too bad!”
sigh I just wanna upgrade my video card, man
More and more, I’m finding that it isn’t enough to just give one of my alias addresses. I’ll make my account and then immediately end up locked out unless I give them my phone number (looking at you, Discord) or upload my ID/take some live selfies (looking at you, Slowly), or sometimes both (looking at you, LinkedIn).
I miss the days when I could just browse and use the internet anonymously
CAD$2,983. Yeah, no thanks.