I wonder if in a couple of years I’ll be trying to discreetly import a Chinese made gpu (32gb vram, half the price of competing nvidia card) labeled as an air purifier or some shit
probably instead soon you’re going to have GPUs that spend insane amounts of energy to make sure you’re not looking at movies/tvshows/porn/non-christian youtubers without paying the specific extra subscription and old/blackmarket GPUs end up really expensive.
Years ago, there was some weird glitch on the NSA’s software where it wouldn’t work without one particular American-made GPU part, but they just kept it in without bothering to look at it, because the two manufacturers are already American anyways? But then it becomes a problem when China puts their hat in the ring, and there’s so much spaghetti code they can’t possibly find the source of the problem. Lathing it.
This is actually real in graphics programming for video games right now. Studios are just relying on AI upscaling and frame generation so they can cut time and money on actual optimization.
interesting concept, but I really see myself buying something like an ARM or RISC-V based linux native minipc or netbook with a GPU capable of playing most pre-2020 games (on paper, the pre-requisite drivers/wine/emulators may not exist for another decade after the first wave of these devices).
I think currently you can buy something vaguely gameboy shaped preloaded with SNES and GBA stuff, so maybe a pre-loaded black market steamdeck isn’t that far in the future.
I wonder if in a couple of years I’ll be trying to discreetly import a Chinese made gpu (32gb vram, half the price of competing nvidia card) labeled as an air purifier or some shit
I’m hoping exporters put them in nvidia boxes so customs just lets it go through
being immediatly visited by the feds because your chinese made gpu doesn’t have a backdoor (for them) and the NSA Panopticon throws up an error
God I hate that this sounds like the most crank shit imaginable and yet it’s still not
probably instead soon you’re going to have GPUs that spend insane amounts of energy to make sure you’re not looking at movies/tvshows/porn/non-christian youtubers without paying the specific extra subscription and old/blackmarket GPUs end up really expensive.
Years ago, there was some weird glitch on the NSA’s software where it wouldn’t work without one particular American-made GPU part, but they just kept it in without bothering to look at it, because the two manufacturers are already American anyways? But then it becomes a problem when China puts their hat in the ring, and there’s so much spaghetti code they can’t possibly find the source of the problem. Lathing it.
This is the real reason they’re putting so much into AI, to clean up their sloppy spaghetti code
This is actually real in graphics programming for video games right now. Studios are just relying on AI upscaling and frame generation so they can cut time and money on actual optimization.
Using AI to refactor a complicated code base would be the funniest shit ever
I get paid to do this what do you mean?
I’m relying on this website to tell me how to acquire said GPU when the time comes.
interesting concept, but I really see myself buying something like an ARM or RISC-V based linux native minipc or netbook with a GPU capable of playing most pre-2020 games (on paper, the pre-requisite drivers/wine/emulators may not exist for another decade after the first wave of these devices).
I think currently you can buy something vaguely gameboy shaped preloaded with SNES and GBA stuff, so maybe a pre-loaded black market steamdeck isn’t that far in the future.