Technology

You're a fucking moron if you buy Nvidia at this point and you deserve everything you lose because of it.

You will own nothing but you will pay for it forever.

I have had a founders membership for many years. Been holding onto it because of I cancel I would lose the founders discount. It dawned on me that I've used this service less than half a dozen times in all the years I have had it and it's been a pretty poor experience each time. With that, and the fact that Nvidia has become an albatross around the neck of the worlds economy, I decided to finally cancel.

I can’t recall why, but I was tired of 3DFX. I think they had a monopoly on 3D acceleration or something, and at the time OpenGL seemed like the way to go. An unknown company called Nvidia released a card called the Riva TNT and it contributed to OpenGL becoming widely supported as well as ending 3DFX’s once deserved dominance.

Nvidia kept hitting it out of the park, creating iterations of cards that made it worthwhile to upgrade every several years. I think the competition from ATI (now AMD) may have kept them from falling into the same rut as 3DFX, and as gamers we’ve enjoyed the result of that relationship with good cards from both.

Today…Nvidia has grown into something that had shed its reason for being. It’s crazy to see their logo in business news top stories. What they’re doing, contributing to a tech development that is so far out front of government oversight that could protect people from the consequences, I see them more as a threat to society than anything else. It’s crazy.

ew! what about families/households with shared computers? what about gametesters, whose job is to play games and find bugs or streamers or game devs? this is absurd! fuck nvidia!

Get Boosteroid instead, even has a winter deal on price at the moment.

i am the ideal customer for this type of service. i don't have a gaming computer, and I don't want to own a gaming computer, but I want to dip into new titles as they come out and indulge once in a while.

i tried geforce now and the waiting rooms and the time caps make it unusable to me. i am paying for convenience here, and yet I can't play when I want to play, and I get kicked if i play for too long or if I make a coffee. and then I wait again. im paying money to wait in a line on the internet.

im trying to sneak video games into the small amount of time that I have, and it's not letting me do that. there's actually no ideal customer for this service. it's a product that doesn't make any sense. they can suck my balls with this shit

HA!

Oh look a pricey solution to an issue they made, who would have seen it coming?

I'll never game or do my general computing as a subscription to a server.

If it comes a day when I can't buy a GPU and run a game myself, I'm not going to game anymore. Simple as that.

memory prices up, parasites come to feed

The goal is to get you to rent your computer forever.

AI, vast datacenters, hardware “shortages”, cloud services, DRM, TPM… it’s all part of the same pipeline: remove compute power from the user and concentrate it under control of the manufacturers in order to lease it back to the public in tightly controlled environments.

Rent your shit, and be a slave of price changes.

When you agree to a subscription, you are enrolling to get fuck, sooner or later.

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I wish I could find the people on Reddit that called me a lunatic when I said subscription services always enshitify, NO MATTER WHAT. It's a matter of when, not if.

Capitalism will find ways to create capital, usually ending in rents. Neither free markets nor regulated can solve this as it is rooted in a contradiction.

Friendly reminder that there are a bunch of fantastic indie games out there that don’t have insane graphic card requirements for a smooth frame rate.