eldebryn

Because almost every aspect of the modern high-tech industry is an oligopoly. No small-time maker could even hope to compete with big brands like Samsung, Asus, Intel, AMD or Nvidia even if they had decades worth of credit to catch up due to how the current system reinforces "first past the goalpost" advantage.

Malicious tech is not something you "vote with your wallet" against. That's neoliberal copium and propaganda.

States need to step in, regulate and control makes of digital goods and services. Unfortunately, we have the reverse going on right now.

While you're in that mood check the documentary Hypernormalization from BBC. Explains a lot.

And when it ends check the year it came our for extra oof.

Now search for Roblox child exploitation on YouTube to watch a 30min dive that will make your soul weep. Whiskey optional.

You have no idea how convoluted and over engineered the ad serving tech is on Facebook/Meta. It's basically an arms race against ad blockers.

Unless I'm mistaken, Ublock Origin recently admitted that they basically just can't allocate resource trying to fight Facebook's ad system.

You have it wrong, people don't despire nor are envious of your success.

People are just aware of this kind of "rags to riches (or just middle class)" transition based on hard work is the exception, not the rule. Countless people work as hard as you did, maybe more, and yet will see almost no improvement in their socioeconomic class.

More importantly this "success story" is so often used by capitalism and neoliberal supporters as "evidence" that "system works" and all you need to do is work hard. Which is, frankly put, just propaganda when we can all see that the main statistical factor for becoming rich is just how rich your parents already were.

Absolutely. AI (at least the LLM, generative style we all know these days) is basically a force multiplier.

It's just that the force vector we have right now is (self)destructive.

Typa shit that neoliberal asshats write to defend and whitewash billionaires.

Yes tech is tech, but the form it takes is, in part, defined by our system and needs.

The current state of AI industries for example would be vastly different if we didn't have both world governments and financial institutions bending over backwards to give them credit while techbros also have the accumulated capital from the last two crisis due to governments failed to regulate and punish sufficiently.

SODIMM ram is still cheap. You could build them a ddr4 intel system with integrated graphics (ideally Arc cores or plenty of EUs) that will run some older or simpler games at 40-60fps with a little upscaling, and the whole thing could be done for 500-700 I reckon.

Either that or maybe build an AM4 if you find a used GPU at a good price.

It is reasonable to want a good product that makes you happy, I get and support that too. Games are meant to be fun.

But games also have another nature, which is creativity and artistic expression. When you buy a game copy you're just witnessing another person's or teams vision and you either appreciate or you don't. It's like paying tickets to see a painting or art installation, at least in part.

You can absolutely go see the mona Lisa while wearing distortive funny effect glasses (mods), all the power to you for doing so.

But DLSS isn't just that. It's the guy who was sponsoring the painter now demand that he not only uses his own BrightColor TM. dyes, (which is mostly reasonable) but they are now saying the artist should give Mona Lisa a wider smile and colorful blouse or paint a 2nd version with those attributes because "people find it pretty".

DLSS 5 is genAI pushed into gaming and genAI in art is terribly problematic anti-humanist process that kills the creative soul of human work and promotes whatever the capitalist free market considers "good" at the time while oppressing anything alternative as an instrument of the elite class.

I'm not going against mods simply because this level of control I'm taking about exists. Gamers want thomas so they make Thomas as an option, everyone is happy.

The problem with DLSS 5 is that it's being marketed as an upscaling or even "an improvement" which is frankly insulting for everyone who works on the art and visuals of a game.

At a quick search the total debt for all US households is 18.8trillion.

For AI tech companies that is 0.7t, though this probally doesn't include shadow banking credit, which reports say is estimated to be dangerously high.

The that that these numbers are only one decimal order apart is despicable. We're talking a handful of AI megacorps vs literally every single individual.