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Sorry if I'm not the first to bring this up. It seems like a simple enough solution.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely indeed! I'll never buy an Nvidia card because of how anti-customer they are. It started with them locking out PCI passthrough when I was building a gaming Linux machine like ten years ago.

I wonder if moving people towards the idea of just following the companies that don't treat them with contempt is an angle that will work. I know Steph Sterling's video on "consumer" vs "customer" helped crystallize that attitude in me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I'm not familiar with that video but I'm intrigued. I'll have to check it out.

I don't know. I don't have much faith in people to act against companies in a meaningful way. Amazon and Walmart are good examples. I feel like it's common knowledge at this point that these companies are harmful but still they thrive.