This was never a real pledge. He was caught on mic saying he was just saying whatever he thought trump would like.

A lot of money for AI right now is IOUs or swapsies.

The thing is, I don’t think this will burst in the way people are thinking it will, because its these companies that are boosting each others stock prices.

They have tons of money to throw around so they can keep it going for a lot longer than if this were mostly normal investors.

Who is buying a component of this calibre to use those standards? Perhaps I am missing something?

Oh nowadays you can get 26tb drives pretty affordably, so a 4 bay NAS could be getting you 50TiB now.

Of course most people don’t need all that though… including me honestly but hey, that data isn’t going to collect itself.

pretty sure that’s meant in a light hearted fashion

Imagine not having a double digit bay NAS with triple digit Tebibytes of space.

Alternatively, your setup is kinda slow and you’re kinda lazy (not used pejoratively).

In what way? You don’t own anything on the fediverse. The people who run the various instances do.

Maybe they even have a TOS that says you own it, but then what? its still up to them to continue to host it, and they have no contract with you.

Unless you are self hosting your own instance, and only count what is on that, you own no more than with larger social media sites.

To be clear, I think that federations certainly are better than monolithic sources for a variety of reasons for real people, but they aren’t a solution for ownership.

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.

You literally didn’t tho

What grounds do they have to pull those videos?

You are aware there is no law called “If you show someone how to modify the product I sold to them (licensed to them too, as that makes no difference) I get to pull down their content” right?

You are out of your god damned mind to be logically equating modifying your OS with piracy.

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.

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.

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).

AI isn’t “any other tool”, it’s global reach, industrial scale “content generation” for any idiot.

Is what marketing sells it as, but so was social media, but in terms of giving any idiot reach, and photoshop for giving any idiot the ability to doctor photos (with a bit more effort) and… There are many technologies that changed “everything”.

The difference is this one is in a bubble state propping up the US GDP and masking recession indicators, so marketing is going overtime for it.

The vast majority of lies aren’t considered crimes, nor is it a crime to run spambot armies to sell shit, nor is accelerating the “dead internet theory”, or spamming amazon listings with genai slop books. Depending on the country, scam attempts aren’t crimes, it’s only a crime if someone falls for it.

These are problems that existed before as well and fall on poor social media moderation and media literacy.

The most dangerous threat with AI is high scale, coordinated misinformation attacks, and laws for the common man just means monopoly money for a few top companies in reality.

so fuck everyone who gets a worse internet experience because of that, eh?

It’s not the common man doing this to any appreciable extent.

Talking about 400$ gpus as budget is the problem with today’s market. My whole set up down to monitor and peripherals was maybe 850 bucks, for reference my last car was a grand. Spending 1500 plus to have a PC set up is insane to me.

It’s a crazy world, but unfortunately the market is how it is, and the AI Boom…ubble is making it a lot worse.

By sales volume, despite their price hikes, the various skus are getting similar to their prior number spreads. You’d think something like the 5090 would be getting half the sales of the 5080, and the 5080 half the sales of the 5070ti and so on and so forth (not quite following that steep an increase) but they aren’t, at least according to steam survey results and then you have to remember a bunch of 5090s are going straight off to AI racks.

Basically what I’m saying is… they price at what the market can bear (roughly, as of course AI skus the optimization math).

I think one economic theory Ive seen that seems plausible, is that many who would otherwise be saving up for houses have given up and buy the small luxuries to make life less shit.

Also find it ironic your crying about drivers for the rx6600

Why be incendiary/hostile about… I’m not even sure what, on a hardware forum post discussing a company’s anti consumer practices???

You think I care about other consumers purely out of self interest? Maybe you think I’m an AMD fanatic? My current GPUs are a RX 580 (In a linux box), RTX 4070 and RTX 5090, and I’ve had an Intel A770 too. I have no allegiances.

that while technically a faster card, is regularly out performed by the rx6600 due to superior driver support.

I specifically listed that this was for new cards at the budget end. The 6600 is a gen old and may be out of production.

Also the B580, especially now, is definitely faster (6600 was only 3/4ths as powerful at launch).

I don’t think we should be treating AI as something outside of being a tool.

People should do whatever they want with the tool, and all the things people are already stopped from doing due to law, should be what they’re stopped from doing with AI, as it is any other tool.

Not really. They use a vague weasel word to basically say “we will, whenever we feel like, no promises”.

The phase they used was “as required by market needs in the maintenance mode branch”.

That could mean anything, any time.