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Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse (www.pcworld.com)
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  • Nvidia and Micron are making emotional appeals to consumers while PC users express frustration with big AI companies’ practices and self-serving motives.
  • Memory vendors predict DRAM and SSD shortages lasting until mid-2027, while new tariffs on advanced computing chips and potential Steam Machine pricing over $1,000 add to consumer concerns.
  • The article highlights how corporations use emotional messaging to mask financial interests, advising consumers to remain skeptical of such appeals.
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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 48 points 2 days ago (14 children)

Switch to retrocomputing; it’s currently significantly more affordable.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 3 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The solution is to use an old computer?

Sounds like copium

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I find it fascinating how the concept of coping with a situation has been made into a negative. "Get bent loser, how dare you try to make the best out of a bad situation". Hold on, let me unfuck the tech sector real quick.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

It goes wrong when you try to convince me that retrocomputing is somehow better than building a reasonably priced new machine.

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