Oh yeah, I’ve seen my fair share of it. People here pretend that they’re only calling these huge incidences Nazis, but you’re exactly right. All you have to do is move a little out of line, and you’re eaten by your own.

Pay all of your bills in person in pennies from now on.

Nobody is bitching. Rage less. My constructive point is that NVidia is a better option. NVidia’s CUDA stack is software - and unfortunately for us, that means it’s also paired with their hardware.

Many people care if choosing something is going to hobble their workflow. In this point, if you’re using Blender, choosing AMD is going to hobble your productivity. I’m just stating facts.

It was the opposite experience for me last time I tried an AMD card. But that was like 8 years ago.

Blender works with AMD hardware just great

No it doesn’t. That’s our point. It works 25% as fast as its competition. That’s not “working just great”…it’s working slowly and like shit. The whole damn point of a GPU is to accelerate that work. The work that your AMD-HIP is doing in blender, could take an hour, and the NVidia would pump it out in 20 minutes.

Everyone’s gonna suggest AMD here because of your requirement of no-proprietary drivers; but unless you’re some sort of high-value target to a foreign government, I honestly choose the more pragmatic route of just using the proprietary NVidia driver and going NVidia. Especially if I’m not budget constrained on card.

The fact of the matter is, AMD has just simply fallen behind. NVidia cards are (and have been for like 3 generations now) more performant. There is good reason why they dominate the market right now; they’re just simply better.

It really depends on how far you want to take your zealotry on open source; there are parts of the CPU microcode that can see everything you do. Those are proprietary. Your bios is proprietary. You’re probably running 100 different proprietary blobs even IF you choose not to use the drivers that NVidia supplies; so why hobble yourself with a slower card that doesn’t have CUDA instructions? (often also very good for AI work if you are interested in that at all)

I certainly understand wanting to push that direction for the sake of pushing that direction but - is performance and stability less important than using a proprietary driver?

“Works great” and “Could work 3x faster” matter to a lot of people.

Well obviously - me as well - but I’m being told by extremists here that any support for a Trump supporter makes me a Nazi, and I don’t want to be one of those.

Now here’s the scrubber of this all – If you REALLY want to be serious – Go to a farmers market.

Oh wait, almost every fucking farmer is a Trump supporter…

Separate the Art from the Artist is accepted by SANE people, who don’t have time to milk tirades so that they can play victim on the internet so that strangers think they are virtuous.

There is not a thing you do, have, own, buy, or operate that isn’t part of slavery, human exploitation, etc in some way or another. You only do this because you want to virtue signal to others that you think “good thoughts” and so you can be praised for being brave.

You’re not brave. You don’t make a difference. And nobody cares.

If you eat any kind of meat, your an evil “carnist”. If you don’t adopt pets from the shelter, then you’re contributing to pet farming. If you don’t drink from a paper straw then you’re killing turtles.

Everyone everywhere has some problem with someone’s something. You literally cannot avoid it all. Own a smartphone? Then you’re evil and deserve to die because you’re carrying an item that was made by slavery! Let me guess…you’re not gonna give up the smartphone…are you? Yeah - I didn’t think you would.

You literally cannot escape these companies, they own everything. Every brand of every everything, and you’ve got a large corporation in there somewhere in the shadows. That’s why they tell you to separate the art from the artist, because it’s been made impossible to boycott anything.

I wonder if they tried to pay it with a signed note by their mother and a chuck-e-cheeze token with ‘payment in full’ scribbled across the note in red marker.

Not on Lemmy, no. Healthy, Attractive, and Non-ADHD/Autistic people are out in the real world, with friends or at their jobs.

Enough with the racism.

Imaginary Taste, don’t have it. Imaginary smells, also don’t have it. Imaginary voices? – Might wanna see a doctor about that…

Well, I guess technically a lot of people have that. There was a whole community dedicated to “GIFs you can hear” once.

The whole point is using Israel as an anchor point for US expansionism at this moment in time.

The architecture doesn’t determine the power draw so much as the system design. I’ve got a Chromebox running an i3 and sipping 4.5w at idle.

Why in hell are all these people on a Technology community who clearly don’t understand the reason why companies are all-in on the AI thing?

I don’t want to pull a “no true scotsman” here, but holy christ. Are any of the people here actually technology enthusiasts? Because there’s a lot of technophobes and luddites here.

In fact, I’d say MOST replies to this community are people pooh-poohing Tech.

if incareration can be made more ethical than is currently the case in the USA

You go ahead and get right on that. Let me know how that goes.

Therefore, off topic.