Crypto bros and AI bros are the same people. They moved from one scam to another
true, but i still think AI had a worse impact.
They’re really finding ways to outdo themselves each time.
Crypto is still close to all time highs
Not all cryptos are scams, just like how not all AI are useless
True, I’m just saying they’re not the same bros - there’s more bros.
Those bros aren’t your bros
Need the crying bro meme
“C’mon bro, it’s not a scam unless it requires an NVIDIA chipset. Please bro, use NVIDIA bro”
Hopefully motivates game developers to optimize their softwHAHAHA oh gods I can’t say that with a straight face
RT has been a plague. The cope going from “4K native 144Hz only bro, potato consoles just can’t keep up” to “just use DLSS to bullshit as many pixels as possible” has been unreal.
It is rather expensive for high end hardware these days. Might get brotato, low requirements and local coop. Just got a couple of controllers so looking for good local coop games, especially good if they are cheap indie games.
I paid a new 4TB seagate 99€ in 2022, now it’s 139€.
Prices used to go down 😐
Meanwhile, I’m having a blast on retro and 2D indie games that play just fine on my secondhand $200 Thinkpad with integrated graphics.
If you’re on Windows, the new O&O ShutUp gives you the option to delete Copilot.
The one downvote is Microsoft
Could be.
I have a fan that auto-downvotes all my posts. I’m not sure who it is, but probably someone on my block list.
Lmao that’s the best name for him
#1 fan
More like -1 fan
Whoever it is, I appreciate them. :)
lemmy actually doesn’t just count the up votes but also by who, so if you dig through the api you should be able to find out
Jokes on you, I’m upgrading my IBM x31. No one in their right mind wants DDR pc2100 ram.
And there was the HDD shortage, the CPU shortage, and I’m sure we’ll see some variant repeat of any of them again.
Water and electricity. Those are gonna be the fun ones.
That would be a dystopia ngl.
whats next, motherboard shortage?
Floppy Disk Drive shortage
Someone is too young or forgot the 2016 DRAM price fixing by Samsung, Hynix, and Micron, causing prices to skyrocket. Prices doubled or even tripled until 2018.
Is there a place I can sell my old ram sticks that are perfectly fine? I just upgraded.
Ebay?
I’m in the same boat and considering this.
eBay…
And tariffs!
People are still mining with GPUs? I’m kinda surprised that’s still profitable
Bought 2x16gb ddr5 crucial from Amazon for 89,99 at the start of October, they are now selling for 141,99 last i checked, also older CPUs seem to be bought and resold for 50-100€ more, scalping should be punishable so they stop doing this BS, but i guess as long big companies get their money who cares…
Was looking at upgrading to am5 but wow ddr5 is so expensive and thanks to ai I doubt that’s going to change any time soon.
Since, I mostly play relatively older games, I will stick to my ROG Ally X with Bazzite OS.
God, the “PC master race” hype is just pathetic now. Spend your life savings so you can play a 10 year old console port that runs like dogshit.
At least you have Steam sales so you can buy games that you won’t play.
Dude, scroll up and read what the meme complains about. How are you this tone deaf?
Careful. You’ll upset them in the middle of their lies about how cheap a PC is to build.
I think these days the PC value argument is a lot more about longevity and versatility than price.
Like in my case, I want to have an old fashioned LAN gaming setup in my house. I’ve already managed to find four PCs stored away, and they are all going to work great. Three are already set up and have linux installed and everything. So they cost a decent amount in their day, but now they’re kind of just free extras.
I’ve been with my wife for around 10 years now. When we started dating she had a PC that wasn’t exactly top of the line, and it was already a couple years old, but was still pretty beefy for its time. She did a couple upgrades over the years, more RAM, SSD, etc. but most of the components were the same ones she originally bought probably around 2013-ish
About a year ago she decided it was time for a major upgrade and built a whole new computer.
I took all of her old components and stuck them in a new case. I of course had to buy a hard drive, power supply, some fans, etc. and it wasn’t maxing out the graphics on the latest AAA games like her new rig can, but it still managed to run pretty much everything I threw at it.
After a couple months I did scrounge up a newer graphics card from a friend doing some upgrades of his own, which was a nice upgrade, but not totally necessary.
I am now running into an issue with some newer games not liking the old processor even though it technically has the required specs (and it’s not windows 11 compatible) so I’m likely going to be doing some major overhauls of my own soon, and I think I’ll probably recycle these components into a home server or something, so I wouldn’t really be surprised if this PC of theseus remains in service in some capacity for a full 20+ years.
Ok bear with me here but we’re on Lemmy so I think I get in trouble if I don’t ask this…
Have ya tried Linux on the old machines? If not, you can make a bootable USB of Linux Mint and play around with it without changing anything on your system. The UI is laid out like Windows.
Nothing makes an old machine sing like installing Linux!
And as luck would have it, I actually was just talking to another friend about this and he turned up a gnome extension that looks like it does exactly what I need, so it may become a Linux machine yet.
I do still want to do some upgrades and I kind of got to like the server idea though so perhaps I’ll be building a new Linux PC and also recycling the old parts into a server
🤘🏻
Like a lot of people I have one or two things keeping me tied to windows for now
The main one for me is a little goofy, but my computer is hooked up to my TV and it’s synced up to my Philips hue lights.
My other consoles and such work fine through the hue sync box but for some reason the PC does not, so I have to rely on the hue desktop app to get the PC synced to the lights
And of course they don’t support Linux, and from what I’ve seen online WINE and the other usual workarounds don’t do the trick either
There’s a couple of people out there who have cobbled together alternatives, but none of them are quite where I want them to be yet.
You can scratch out PC and replace it with (console of choice) and still have paid less even back then.
