To be honest, if a company produced cards as solid and stable as the 1080Ti I'd buy one as a spare today.
I live in fear of mine dying of old age; when it does nothing seems to compare on the market at the moment in terms of vram, size, and power usage.
The +5 charisma buff was too hard to pass up.
This isn't a meme, it's an emotional massacre...
Operation archive the archive?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/513049/alphabet-annual-global-income/
Let's pause a moment and just appreciate how much money Alphabet actually make net (after expenses). $73,795,000,000 last year - higher than the GDP of entire nations, in profit.
The "bad" year, 2022 that drove all this change, they only made $59,972,000,000 net. Oh how terrible (!)
5 years ago, they made $34,343,000,000 net, so they've more than doubled profits.
Take a moment to appreciate that, and really consider if they "need" the money.
Same thing I do now - create interesting lessons, mark a lot of work, and read a lot of strange books.
When it no longer reliably functions - Older hardware still has a lot of uses, just dump lubuntu on it and you have a functional desktop that you can play older games on, and use open source productivity suites with. However, once parts start to fail that you can no longer replace (those old laptop HDDs for example), it becomes obsolete to you.
The video below offers a nice exploration on left v right in terms of the conditions in a nation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
I think, personally and without solid justification, that our generation is a sacrificial one. If we accept our lives as being imperfect, but aim to reduce the imperfection of those that come after, we're on the best path. Planting trees whose shade we'll never sit in, with the caveat we're also helping people see that the shade is more valuable than the lumber, and that the world always needs more of both.
A couple of extra ones to add to the list:
"Work you don't see didn't happen"
I think a lot of it is down to the assumption that employees are working less because less work is seen.
"A tired employee is a loyal employee"
That one might sound dystopian, but it's also true. Commutes make people feel worse, and contribute to burned out feelings by reducing recuperation time. People in that kind of space are unable to look for new opportunities as easily.
Ah, the copyblight strikes again.
I'm no longer really surprised at this - it just makes me sad. We're literally trying to burn down the library of Alexandria to raise the price of books.
Copyright law is a blight upon the world in its current form, and unless people take a stand it'll rot the beauty from the net and hold humanity back.
For those interested in actively opposing this - the following blog offers some advice on how to do so.
https://blog.yoav.ws/posts/web_platform_change_you_do_not_like/
I mean, here is a thought, if an AI tool uses creative commons data, then it's derivatives fall under creative commons. I.e. stop charging for AI tools and people will stop complaining.