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You’ll own nothing and be happy.
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“Son, why are you collecting all those old PCs?” This is why, I’m not going to use a fucking Windows Portal or a xAI TerminalX (or whatever the elongated muskrat will name it) to use whatever OS they allow, while surveilling me 24/7 for my own safety.
3.5 hours!!! Love ya Steve, but I ain’t got time for all that
Ugh I can’t fucking stand this dude, love the work he is doing, and he is spot on with his assertions, accusations, and documentation! He is clearly 100% correct.
But absolutely cannot bear physically watching/listening to him for longer than 8 minutes…
Meh. His tone and delivery can be a little annoying sometimes but I let it fly because of the amazing work he’s doing towards opening gamers’ eyes.
I’d rather use a weak single board computer for all my computing needs than rely on some corporate-controlled remote server. As much as these corporations would love for us to only have a dumb terminal, the minimal computer of today has a lot of power.
the minimal computer of today has a lot of power.
Usually enough to watch any sort of video content in HD and play thousands upon thousands of games with zero issue. Just the PS2 library alone is several years worth of content and you can play them all with a good emulator (PCSX2) and a computer from the last 15 years… I’m hoping there’s a silver lining in the price hikes, like seeing a renaissance of video game development, with actually optimized games that focus on gameplay and don’t take 100gb per map, or maybe people start going back and playing the OG SW: Battlefront II online again.
People use PC for work too.
Most work requiring a PC can be performed by hardware released in the last 15 years.
I could have done 99% of my last job from an old Atom X5-8500 tablet if I bolted on a good external display and HID. I am perfectly happy navigating with a little J5005 Pentium Silver NUC since everything lived in a browser anyways.
If excel needed more time, let it cook, long as you don’t exceed a million rows it’ll probably get there someday.
Video and production work requires real compute, but 99% of us desk jockeys could have got by with thin clients and a little elbow grease. But I would contend that we may be living int he golden age of low-watt computing because we have the some combination of all computer games ever written in the history of man, the vast majority of them compilable and runnable on today’s ardware or otherwise emulatable
And thanks to Valve, there is it now a very established market for running even AAA 3D titles on dog shit commodity hardware. It’s pretty much just the mfps crowd that have to buy each next years release of post-processing laden Call Of Modern Battlefied Spartan Halo 2027, that need to worry about graphics falling behind, when we have such a rich ecosystem of excellent indies. All of my favorite games are like five or eight years old (I play a ton of Crab Champions, and Risk of Rain 2, etc with my gaming crew, these days).
All that to say, old hardware will keep us gaming indefinitely if the will is there. I think the big threat is people forfeiting the sovereignty of their compute and consumption for the illusion of convenience, the same way so few people own ebikes in my country while everyone has Uber and Lyft fees every month on their statements.
Wair till people figure out they can be their own GeForce Now for $0 with Tailscale and Artemis/Apollo.
I set up an enterprise grade firewall on a computer I got from a deceased relative. It was probably already 8+ years old when I got it and had been replaced with something newer. I had it for a long damn time; during covid when everyone was home and a lot of people were having their home internet connection clogged up with multiple users doing zoom sessions and remote work, my crusty machine was doing a good job of balancing out and shaping our meager 100mbps connection for five people. I think the CPU maybe got to about 10% at peak, but usually ran closer to 4% most of the time. It used up all the memory, but that was how it was supposed to work. It had a traditional spinning hard drive in it.
I kept it until it was about 18 years old when I finally retired it. It never broke, never failed, hardware just quietly ran and ran. I never turned it off unless the power went out. I only retired it because it was too big (full desktop tower case) for the home I had moved into. I wiped the disk, loaded a minimalist linux on it and donated the whole thing, monitor, keyboard mouse all in perfect order.
Hardware lasts and you don’t even have to be nice to it.
20 if you are being minimalist.
If all of the work is just typical office stuff, even the software from 15 years ago is more than enough.
The irony of posting that video on YouTube. If you actually think it’s a problem, FFS self-host your video, my friends. Or cross-post it and make the YouTube link the second one.
We are fucked when this gets upvoted.
“Megacorps are bad!” well “Not this one, I get paid a lot by this one!”
But its convenient, whatever will we do???
it’s not ironic, it’s just reality
Self hosting is entirely non viable for the scale gamer nexus is operating at. It would be fucking stupid for him to even bother.
He’s trying to reach a wide audience with multi hour long videos. Just this video alone could cost him around 30k+ USD in bandwidth and hardware on the very low end of he wants to match the quality and reach. Realistically it would be much higher. Hes making 4k60fps videos delivered to a global audience. That video alone is likely already amassed well over 30 petabytes of bandwidth useage if not more. You can’t manage that with just one or two servers hosting the file. Not counting his other videos.
Its physically just not possible to do that and stay profitable. There’s a reason self hosting can’t compete with YouTube. They are functionally subsidizing absurd amounts of cost for a lot of the larger creators.
Self hosting is, will always be and has always been a fucking joke for scale. Its a fun thing to do for personal video collections or low resolution stuff. But it’s fucking retarded for anything professional unless you own a massive amount of servers all over the place and you arnt paying for your own bandwidth.
Your rarely goanna be able to deliver petabytes of data at that scale and not be paying for bandwidth. Owning the hardware is the cheap part.
I don’t want to not be able to have consumer computer parts, although part of me is ready to be done with computers again all together.
In any case, I was just at a Tool collective today to get some tools for a project, and it seems like every time I turn around the solution, or at least mitigation, to this modern world is CO-OP’s. If I can’t have consumer computers and have to use shared resources, I would definitely prefer to do it as a non profit collective with a management board beholden to the members, not a corporate entity.
Ironically, the “own nothing and be happy” line comes from an essay envisioning a future of co-ops.
You can have my PC when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
and also
Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.
cyberpunk cowabunga it is then
The US has more guns than people and perp walked a compromised predator into office. The whole purpose of these weapons has come and gone.
… So the people should be disarmed and dispossesed so that capital can direct their fates?
They should be disarmed… by the predator in chief?
Are you thinking this through very hard?
ICE is actively shooting innocent civillians, en masse, we’ve got people starving and dying of malnutrition in concentration camps…
And now, now is the time for everyone to give up their guns?
Are you ok, did you hit your head recently?
Your strategy is ‘give up the guns because the Nazis won the government?’
I dont think guns do what you think they do.
I didnt hit my head, I live in a functioning democracy where people who have these armed uprising fantasies are known as children.
In what circumstance are these guns going to become useful because all I see is major societal issues and tribalism.
Its crazy to see what is happening the US and the 2A proponents not doing the thing they have always claimed the 2A was for.
I agree that its very hypocritical of the bulk of 2A people to shirk the duty that they’ve been loudly proclaiming they need their guns to execute.
But guns do exactly what I think they do.
You’re worried about societal issues and tribalism?
Those are already here.
You do not live in a functioning democracy, if you live in the US.
The only way you could think that you live in a functioning democracy is if you uh, haven’t read the news in at least a year and a half, if you live in a magical dream world where reality is less important than your fanciful idealism.
There’s a reason all the academic experts in … you know, democracies, in decline, … there’s a reason they all left the country, months ago now.
Who is going to go around and enact your preferred policy?
A … theoretical future administration?
How are we gonna get one of those, that you like, after Trump and ICE disrupt and rig the midterms?
You’re aware that they literally declared anyone who is ‘radically pro-transgender’ to be ‘a type of major terrorist group’ right?
These are the same people that got a fuckton of people fired because they reposted clips of Charlie Kirk sayings Charlie Kirk said, after he died.
You are literally dangerously naive.
I dont think its being naive, I dont live there thank fuck but I have maga family and have visited.
Its just beyond a joke, when will the guns help the situation? It has never happened, bar maybe the black panthers but on a political direction level never. The US is an oligarchy and the people are celebrating, doesnt matter if they have nukes the people are not doing shit.
Ok so, you don’t live here.
Heres the current situation:
There are significantly more privately owned firearms in the US… then there are people.
You… would need an actual plan, to make that not be the case.
If your plan is ‘tell the government to go get all the guns’… that, that is the thing that all the stereotypical 2A people will literally start a widespread civil war or terrorism campaign or whatever you wanna call it, to resist giving up their guns.
That’s the doomsday scenario they’ve built their culture around, for… at least 40 years.
Wishful thinking will not accomplish anything.
You are acting as if the guns can just be ctrl-z’d out of existence, as if somebody could just tick a box somewhere, and suddenly hundreds of millions if firearms just… stop existing.
Thats not how this works.
The country is already well on its way to increased factionalism and violence.
The Black Panther still exist by the way. And they do armed marches, stand guard around places.
They don’t use the guns to shoot people, its force projection, it sends a message.
Like all the LGBTQ places that have had armed guards show up, to protect them, after Nazis/Proud Boys/Oath Keepers with guns threaten the club or cafe or whatever.
This kind of thing has been escalating since the George Floyd protests.
We’re beyond the point of ‘now everyone kiss and make up’.
American history is actually full of shit like this, even pretty modern American history.
You’re not gonna make that all go away by simply being exasperated by it.
They should give up guns because they are the Nazis.
American (maybe more broadly Western) Computer Consumer Products companies are indeed getting fucked.
The thing is, that doesn’t mean that the Future is one were Consumers are forced to not have PCs and have all their computing needs served from Big Companies’ Servers.
I think, going from evidenc of the former to expecting the latter is a jump too far to take since it’s only looking at one side of the equation in one part of the World.
It’s perfectly possible that it’s the Chinese companies that end up gaining from this, similarly to how in the EV space the result of Western auto companies not offering what most consumers actually wanted (which wasn’t a Tesla, since those are too expensive for most people) was that the Chinese created and expanded that industry are now handily outcompetting those Western companies in their home markets.
Chinese parts and Mini-PC (an area where there are still a lot of products well bellow $500) manufacturers are still happilly selling their products to buyers from all over the World on platforms like AliExpress and, as we’ve recently discovered, Chinese memory makers (actual makers using actual chip fabs, not memory module assemblers) are expanding their production and selling more and more product to consumer market module assemblers in China and Taiwan, filling in the void created by the big memory makers focusing on supplying the AI datacenter boom.
(PS: That said, the China side seems to be covered in the video)
Further, there are other natural reactions in other areas which go against a dystopian future of No More Personal in Personal Computing - for example, software makers, most notably game makers, when they’re scoping their products to the computing power that the expect will be available in 5 years, aren’t going to be targetting hardware significativelly more powerful than what is common now (because if they did otherwise their stuff wouldn’t sell), which means that naturally (though with some delay) the demand for more computing power and storage in personal devices is adjusting to the reduced availability of new devices with more storage and computing power, so rather that demand rather than going to go up it’s probably going to stagnate, meaning that the future is most likely one of people running old computers for longer and just repairing what breaks with parts from that generation (one where DDR4 memory is more popular than DDR5) that one where everybody (both consumers and software makers) meekly accepts that the only option is computation running on servers (something which, by the way, game makers have already tried with things like Stadia, which failed miserably).
In summary, yeah the consumer personal computing hardware industry in the West is hurting, but just that is nowhere enough to support this idea that in the Future, Worldwide there will be no more Personal Computers.
(PPS: My expectation of the likely future is probably closest in that video with that of the guy from Corsair).
Is there already x86 silicon from china that is viable? I would hope this at least gives risc architectures a goodd boost, for industry the biggest problem seems to be decent documentation, in embedded stuff hardware on paper often looks good but lacking support can be a huge dealbreaker for developing firmware.
Computing is the means of production. Go figure
Love how detailed Gamer’s Nexus is, but 3.5 hours is waaaaay too much. What’s the TLDR?
He repeats information constantly. Any time I watched one of his videos I couldn’t stop thinking how it could be cut to a third of the length without losing anything important. For my attention span it’s unwatchable.
The problem with that, is if he did that. Then you would see endless people claiming hes bullshit, lying and cherry picking sources endlessly.
You have to make a point, make it again, show proof, make the point again, show different proof of the same thing, make the point a last time, followed by more proof of the same thing with extra sources. ONLY THEN. Does the avg idiot actually believe you instead of just screaming at the top of their lungs that your an idiot.
When you have to compete with misinformation and propaganda, you have to be so overly verbose that it borders on the absurd. Seriously iv watched people argue up and down that Steve lies and makes shit up in every single one of his videos because it doesn’t agree with the dude bro crypto cult manosphere twitch streamer they watch.
So while your entirely right he could cut a third of his run time of his longer videos ALL of his videos really. You would just end up with the screaming idiots coming back like they use to on older gamer nexus videos before he started getting really long winded.
This guy is right. I’ve learned something from posting on the 'net, it’s that:
A) The average user is really, really stupid
B) People will never admit they’re wrong. They’d rather argue longer and pointlessly than concede a point
C) If they are ever in the complete wrong, there’s crickets.
So I’ve made it a habit to break the habit and agree with people / say they’re right when they are
Thanks, Holytimes 😎👍
You are entirely right. Just agree and nod and move on.
Very few people have to actually deal with arguing with idiots. And for them it’s typically just a downside of their job. They can’t just ignore it. So they have to deal with it.
For the rest of us. Just nod, agree, and move on with your life! You will be happier and have a better mental well-being.
If that were true we wouldn’t have anti-vaxxers, flat earth, or religion.
It is true you just have a horrible and woefully lacking view of how truely fucking stupid people are.
Its true and it’s the only reason we don’t have MORE of those fucking idiots.
No they are right. That was exactly what we learned during the pandemic. You can lay out the most researched fact check argument you want and they still wont believe you.
People are going to still say he is making shit up. No amount of facts are going to help.
Personally, I prefer the method used by a lot of podcasts I listen to. They put a link to all their citation and research instead of cramming it all into the presentation. Often with some discussion items and additional information if I want to check sources.
Video is an exercise in patience, because it is a horrible way to convey information, and really long ones are not helping.
- You can’t reason somebody out of a position they didn’t reason themselves in to.
- If someone has internalised a position as a part of themselves then an attack on that position is now a personal attack and will be treated as such. ( this is one reason why you see such visceral responses to what would normally be minor disagreements )
- Not everybody is looking for (or will even consider) a differing viewpoint, they will just ignore anything outside of their bubble because they don’t care about factual accuracy as much as they care about validation.
- Bad faith isn’t always intentional trolling, some people are just natural arseholes ( like babies aren’t trying to make your ears bleed with their crying, it’s just one of the only means of communication available to them )
Laying everything out and hammering it home and showing all the work. Is the only reason we don’t have more idiots running around. You will never convert the truely hopeless loss causes. But you can convert the fence sitters and reduce the amount of idiots by a good chunk.
If you just leave them to their own devices those fence sitters will just join the idiots.
Literally you will just have more idiots if you don’t try. Covid made that extremely clear. It takes twice the effort to get though to most people and the idiots are too far gone.
Being nice, polite and to the point rarely actually helps the cause when your trying to talk to stupid people.
It’s a compilation of a handful of previous videos all out under one broad topic. If there’s one you care about there’s a more dedicated specific video about tariffs, AI, memory, factories, etc.
I also can’t stand his voice for too long.
I’m only half way through but the TLDW so far is that the consumer DIY market is in collapse. Component suppliers are in bad financial shape, and many will probably not survive the down-turn.
Does make you wonder what we will be left with. Probably not all components gone. But likely less choice.
Could get a pi, they seem to be popular enough to not go away any time soon.
Did you see the Pi price increases though? Ouch. A mini-PC is likely better value now.
Part 2: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/more-memory-driven-price-rises/
Mini PC prices are also going up. But yeah they are also an interesting choice to look at.
I’ll game on a pi zero before I subscribe to run them on a data center.
My Pi3b is a great little emulator, retropi worked great last time I plugged it in
i’m half way in
watch it
Or watch The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition in the same amount of time.
do both
That is why I have 2 monitors
Usually, there’s a mouse over on the time bar of his vids. You can find the bit you want and skip the rest. But if this is 3.5hrs, it’s likely it’s a playlist of all related vids smashed into one vid.
It isn’t.
Is there any source for this information that doesn’t constantly attack industry allies and content creators in adjacent channels, that doesn’t have a bombastic and self-aggrandizing view of their role in the cosmos, and that knows where to find some hair clippers, or at least a ponytail scrunchie?
Every video I ever tried to watch of him made me cringe, and I get that we are imperfect vessels deserving of grace, but I’m just not here for all the ambulance chasing and weird factional tiffs this guy kicks off seemingly recreationally.
Weirdly purist about his reviews too, his approach to hardware would ice out so many of us, but I’m not going to trust him to meaningfully democratize access pretty much ever.
edit: down vote away, gents! Just, it would be helpful while you do so, if you can share any other sources for the topic if you’re serious about the cause and not about the character
edit2: keep going, folks! -30 karma on a post asking for citations is a personal record for me, and I’m sure we can get me to -100 if we try hard enough! All it took was being out of alignment with the groupthink and disliking a self-indulgent YouTube character, and sharing my bad (but very importantly, they are not dangerously harmful) opinions aloud. I’ve seen J6’ers get warmer receptions.
He is conflating a couple of ideas: a push to make the consumer dependent and the overall collapse of the industry to sell you hardware.
The key points are rising costs (tarrifs, uncertainty, AI demands changing manufacture to HBM (high memory bandwidth) instead of consumer RAM. Only 3 companies control 90 percent of all ram.
see: https://enkiai.com/ai-market-intelligence/memory-shortage-2026-how-ai-will-cause-a-supply-crisis/
and
Then there was consumers who saw all this coming and horded and purchased a lot up front, creating a demand that suddenly collapsed, which is an interesting additional problem. Largely consolidation to the larger vendors, as smaller ones had a rush and then quick decline in sales.
But the most interesting part of the conversation is about right to ownership, right to repair, and licensing with services. Corporations are pushing hard to define hardware as “software in a box” and require licensing. There are a lot of published papers on this.
The book The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy published at MIT press and completely free to read, gets into the details, even though it was from 2016, it still applies today. https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4662/The-End-of-OwnershipPersonal-Property-in-the
Another good resource is this paper: Restrictions on Use in Digital Services Contracts: The Legal Implications of Licensing vs. Ownership Models https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2025/ahmadova_shabnam.pdf
The confluence of the hardware shortages (not just for hobbyists, but also in all consumer devices) is causing a rise in companies pushing for low power cheap devices connected to their licensed services. In order to maintain a profit they are now incentivized to use software locks, subscriptions, and centralized cloud services.
There it is in a nutshell.
Solutions? Open-source, local first hardware, diversification of the hardware chain. Several fabs are coming on line but it will take some time.
Interestingly pc shipments in general are expected to rise again, see here for various links: https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20260411-pc-market-2026-q1/#gsc.tab=0
Dude, I appreciate the ever-loving f*** out of you actually taking the time to compile this, and a site sources. This is genuinely what I was hoping to get out of the thread ( all of the haterade was just… An unhealthy bonus, I guess?) And I’ll be diving into those links.
I sometimes feel torn about these kinds of market consolidation issues, because it’s certainly not Samsung or skhynix’s fault there are no at-scale fabs from first party American brands, and that both until and AMD did everything in their power to reduce domestic production and spin off their own Fab facilities for literally anyone else to manage wherever possible.
It’s Red Lobster and every other Private Equity managed restaurant chain becoming a real estate holding company, just with a lot more electrons.
But it’s not like TSMC or SK Hynix did this to us, and it’s on all of the consumers to keep the board partners and oackagers honest.
Thst said, I tend to think consolidation is universally bad, absent any nationalization of infrastructure, and my country has this same nightmare playing out with its housing as Blackrock and other equity groups have make a clear effort to force all of us to be perpetual renters.
We in this thread are likely universally in agreement about the problems at hand. I respect that you cut across my bullshit and everyone else’s to actually bring citations and thoughts. Cheers.
industry allies
how broken of a human being do you have to be to say this lmao
That’s right, anyone with a perspective different than yours is clearly broken and incapable of rehabilitation!
edit: it dawns on me that if I only answer with snark I’m not doing any better than the people that are just attacking me. Perhaps it’s worth defining terms so that we can argue more clearly about the subject. I apologize if you already know all of this and I’m just trying to get on the same page, here.
For most products that you and I want to run in our tech stacks, we are relying on packagers, whether that’s software or hardware i rely on someone to make my shit accessible and useful to me. Skhynix or TSMC has some teeny tiny silicone stack roll off the line, I can’t just cram that into my tower or phone. I need a company like PNY or EVGA (rrrriiiiippp) to actually wrap those up with cooling components and distribution lanes, and interfaces, which allowed them to run with all of our cool devices based on industry standards.
The thesis for a lot of our community these days, and for sensationalist ambulance chasing video publishers, seems to be that every board partner has grown to be a Mustachio-twirling villain, as if ASrock or BeeTech just simply hate their user base.
From where I’m sitting, I can see material costs for these most basic components in our systems (the storage and memory) are likely going to double and triple the bill of materials going into my gear, as the Barabones version is my yesteryear PC has gone down in price, but buying my variant has increased by at least 30%.
I would entertain a conversation of grand conspiracy and villainous collusion, but not if I have to sit through three and a half hours of everyone’s favorite neckbeard droning on in front of his camera while I desperately wish that I could My Little Pony the shit out of his straggly mane of hair, brushing him out for hours.
I walked away from giving Mr Nexus any viewership whey he started going after the jugular on adjacent tech channels, often the ones who actuary explained the mechanics of board partners to me first when I was younger.
I have always focused on, and advocated for, low-watt competing and with an emphasis on gaming. I cared more abut Atoms than Threadrippers, and have not bothered with purists that works trek new that everyone needs the best of the best.
My interest is more in accessibility than anything else, which is why I’m absolutely f****** thrilled and delighted that we now have Chinese silicon vendors looking to flood the zone with cheap DDR4 and slower DDR5.
But through it all, if we find out that, as a wild counterexample, " making the next iPhone in the domestic us would make each unit cost $30,000usd" for instance, that means that our smart devices never actually only cost $1,000. It means that we have all been comfortable with subsidized devices and sponsored exploitation under the surface."
If the labor the crafts are things, from fabrication, to packaging, to distribution, cannot operate with the cost of labor, services, and materials, then we should absolutely expect prices to spike horrendously.
But for most folks supply chain woes aren’t about human rights abuses (unless they happen to hate a specific brand, the way that Foxconn critics would lambast apple but not sony or microsoft, and the same one facility complex in Shenzhen might be manufacturing iPhones, PlayStations and Xboxes all at the same time).
To bring together my big, haphazard, stupid point: Conspiracies can exist, and I would be interested to hear analysis around Market collusion from literally any other source on the planet, I don’t believe Everyone’s Favorite Burke would be the only voice to promote this issue and I don’t trust his track record of cherry picking and sensationalism to actually arrive at a serious conversation about equitable distribution of our technologies and equitable valuation of the labor that goes into it. Instead, I expect more selective outrage, and I expect people won’t read past my criticisms if one man, but will continue to fail to bring anything worth reading and discussing to this forum. You know, the table where we read and write and discuss.
Thst, or I’m just a “broken human” – and what does that day about you, if I’m what you seein your own team, here? These communities are what we make of them.
He talks with people from cooler master, hyte, gskill so I suppose that is where the source information is coming from.
but do you have an X link
only first hand sources from elon count
Muskrats. Gross.
omg corpo simp harder daddy!
Lol. Which Corp am I simping for, when I don’t want to give the youTube neckbeard-in-chief viewership?
What does it mean if I get a bunch of down votes for asking for literally any corroborating or alternative sources?
It means you’re very superficial, and attacking credibility by means of criticizing image and style, a misdirect.
What, do you want an E3 booth babe from 2004 giving you a 30 minute version?
Its original reporting.
They did interviews.
With tons of people… in the industry.
Its a double feature length documentary expose.
There are no alternative sources in this case, because him and his team do original work that no one else does.
If you think Steve is … being needlessly mean, to other dipshits in the space, whom he meticulously documents his well reasoned grievances with…
If you finding him generally ‘cringe’ inducing… inspires you, out of the goodness of your heart, to… consider that all people deserve some grace, even this strangely purist… ambulance chaser…
You have some kind of a parasocial problem, or, you’re just actually one of the people he’s criticized, or you’re in their friend group.
Frame setting? High School level insults used to present yourself as a reasonable truth seeker? Wildly out of touch taste compared to most people actually in the space?
Yep, common tactics and traits of corpos and parasocial obsessive fans alike.
You’re trying to degrade investigative journalism by way of Mean Girls tactics.
You’re using too many buzzwords to not come across as either an insider or one who seeks their validation via emulation.
Eh, call me names all you like. I worked my career in logistics and don’t have the industry ties you credit me with, but kudos.
Coincidentally 2004 was the only E3 I ever got to attend. I was an LA resident and another student in the grad school where I was an undergrad had a spare media badge.
Today? I don’t let Newscorp or MSNow into my home, I don’t eat Nestlé product, I don’t let Mr Nexus get my clicks, I don’t know who half the “influencer” personalities are but I don’t call them journalists no matter how many lightning bolts they put in their thumbnails and intro sequences, and I don’t have any qualms about drawing the lines on what I consume.
I hope you get what you’re looking for. It won’t be with me.
Ok, you have a parasocial problem, good for you.
You’re the one that started with the insults.
You’re not gonna gaslight anybody into forgetting that.
I just parodied your level of critique, and hypercharged it.
You went for the bait.
It’s called trolling for a reason.
Anyway yeah, your age isn’t that hard to approximate, you’re an older Gen Xer or younger Boomer, you know, a yuppie.
I’m so glad that you getting rid of cable TV and Nestle signifies that your’re not a corpo, after a career in logistics.
It ain’t left your bones or your brain yet, you’re just overcompensating for your guilt.
… and I’ve already got what I wanted from you.
Lol, you’re off by about twenty years! But uh, thanks for at least owning up to being a troll.
You went for the bait. It’s called trolling for a reason.
This is a horrible way to try to be in community. Good luck out there, tiger.
Since the other kind is being nice. I’ll just say bluntly.
Yer coming across as a fucking ass. Chill the fuck out man. None of this is that deep.
That is your take away? No cobtribution at all?
People like you make me cheer the corpos on. Well not really, but I often wonder why I need to champion the asshats. And people upvote your useless comment.
While the channel is making money and supporting Google. Way to go smarty.
that dude is literally one of the few people fighting against corpo overreach
the fuck are you even talking about
If people like me make you even consider cheering the corpos on, then you don’t actually care about anything other than outward appearance, and your allegiance and opinions mean nothing, because you just like whoever has the best PR.
What, should Steve just also start his own video streaming or distribution service?
You’re gonna say that using a corporate tech platform to expose corporate tech bullshit… well in this case, that’s bad, because, capitalism?
Would you prefer a much tinier number of people be able to see this content?
Do you value ideological purity over broad dissemination of information?
Lemme know when your LORA meshnet video streaming network is up and running, you know, nationwide, globally.
Blah blah blah. You had zero reason to give that other person a bad time about finding him difficult to watch. So you said they were pro corporate, although it had nothing to do with anything. Meaning you are just busy being an asshat and have nothing to contribute. Which makes me realize just how many people are like you that jump straight to being a dick and don’t really care about anything.
Which makes me go why am I caring about you again?
And yes, I do think you should stand up to your principles and get off you tube. Google is just as much part of the problem, quite supporting it.
the dude’s an asshat bitching about something that he obviously didn’t even watch because the video answers his fucking complaints 5min in
I can’t tell if you two are 14 or just stupid
They already admitted they’re a corpo yuppie. I just pointed out their misplaced guilt complex.
I’m being an asshat performatively to serve a purpose: bullshit detector.
Yeah I jump straight to being a dick when I get a strong whiff of out of touch privileged bullshit.
You’re still responding to me because you were lying earlier when you acted like I wasn’t worth responding to… thus I hit a nerve somewhere, you can’t handle someone being rude to you.
‘Blah blah blah’, anyone bringing up points you don’t like being brought up is dismissible… because they were rude to you.
See how your ability to evaluate situations just… you know, hinges on how polite someone is to you?
You said I was contributing nothing.
No.
I contributed something, you just… couldn’t comprehend it.
But I do responds to insults in kind, old man.
Anyway yeah, thanks for your boomer advice, I’ll be sure to tell every single left wing or consumer advocate, you know, every actually anti corporate streamer or creator on youtube to just, you know, stop doing the youtubes, because they can just get their information from…
… uh … the … public… broadcasting service?
Oh wait that basically doesn’t exist anymore.
Does Democracy Now cover tech news very in depth?
NPR?
Whatever, the kids are wrong, somehow.
(ps you can use youtube without giving them any data or money or ad views or anything if you understand a bit about web browsers)
They already admitted they’re a corpo yuppie. I just pointed out their misplaced guilt complex.
No they didn’t. What are you making up now?
You didn’t contribute anything. They asked where else can I see this. You jumped up like a petulant child with nothing to say and had fun pointing fingers. Then had the classic “boomer” rant, you are checking all the boxes.
Oh well, thats what I can expect from a YouTube Shill. You want convenience over actually giving a shit about corporations. You want attention over discussion. Why are you so deep in googles pocket?
(ps you can use youtube without giving them any data or money or ad views or anything if you understand a bit about web browsers)
No. Participation is consent. Which you would know if you were not such a child.
Considerate of you to defend me and others in this community.
I’m allowed to criticize and despise the Man Who Owns No Scrunchies and I’m allowed to be dead wrong about it. I can do so, out loud, and without insulting people in our community.
They are technically allowed to downbote me into oblivion and a few will pile on with the sophomoric insults.
I appreciate that your tact is to recognize that this is a community of real, breathing people, and the tyiu call out the consequences of one hitting way harder than the consequences of the other.
I’m often reminded that, just like subreddit, these are OUR communities and that they will become what we make of them. We have the power in our hands to completely tear down our own teams.
I think we both could be rather curious what building it up looks like, instead.
I mean, unless ‘Steve’ is here. Fuck that guy. 🤣
I got what you are saying and there is nothing wrong with asking for a different view of the same information, or other formats.
I found the reply to you so off putting because any ally would likely say something to guide you to more info. Instead you get shouted at. Like WTF.
So each person who upvoted that makes me really question why I am here at all, they contributed nothing to the community except to try and ostracize someone. Even if you were on the fence about the content, what good would that do? Do they actually give a shit, or are they just trolling?
Beginning to think I’m deeply wrong, and that this place just isn’t for anyone outside the (albeit decentralized yet obviously prevalent) groupthink.
I’ve never seen so many people line up to glaze such an unprofitable human outside of r/conservative/conspiracy. Never imagined it’d hit a nerve saying “I don’t give this one creator viewership.”
Next, I’ll find out they’re mad I still watch LTT.
I mean, in later replies to me that dude literally called himself a troll and admitted he just needed the attention.
I like to think you and I can have a moderating effect around here, over time. :)
It’s when the group can’t handle having vocal dissidents that I start moving towards the exits.
Thank god I bought those two 32 TB drives last November for 750 Euro each. With the feeling of getting ripped off.
Now one of those drives is at 1100 Euros, and every day prices go further up. I made the right call, this will last me a couple of years.
But this is all fucked up.
Used to be in Tech you got more for the same or the same for less. Fuck hyperscalers.
I already commented on the video that i currently own a PC and when it breaks i’ll find another hobby rather than give money to those greedy AI skinsuits.
I’ll just replace it with comparable performance parts. What used to cost £500 now costs more like £200 if you are happy with a similar level of performance. Look at the steam deck, and that includes the price of a battery, touchscreen and controller inputs!
I wonder how far we are from onboard graphics being comparable to my now 8 year old GPU…
Edit - just looked it up, Radeon 780M is from last gen Ryzen CPUs, not sure when/if G series processors are coming for 9000s CPUs or not. Looks like it might be comparable to a 1050Ti, so they are getting there and that isn’t exactly bad performance.
You should watch the video, because your comment misunderstands it completely. The point is that in the future there will be no new consumergrade PC components on the market at all, because only a couple of huge corps will survive and they will achieve total monopoly of the market.
It is not a question of price or anything like that, they will simply stop producing it in favour of datacenters, where you can lease computerpower (through AI agents).
Where are they going to get their technical talent from then
Phone sales are massive aren’t they? You can buy computers with the same components that some phones use. Currently not overly popular but that might be where we end up.
I’m convinced that modular PCs are … at least a flavor of the future.
MiniPC with higher spec laptop or mobile cpu, soldered on to a mobo that has sodimm slots.
Oculink port, external gpu dock with psu.
CPU gets too old? Keep your ssd and sys ram, get a new mini pc, put the ssd and ram into it.
GPU gets too old? Get a new one, new PSU if you need it.
Yeah, you get a slight ding to extreme performance scenarios, but at least at the moment, this seems to be the more cost effective route to get something like a ‘ultra graphics at 1440p’ capable system.
Also, once you get the GPU dock, you probably don’t really need to get a new one… unless like an entirely new PCIe standard comes out, or something like that.
But, you can currently get a bare bones one thats around the cost of all the fans and cpu heatsinks and what not that you’d need for a traditional ‘battlestation’.
Also also, when not gaming or doing something graphically or LLM or whatever kind of demanding, you can just boot up the MiniPC alone and have a lower power bill.
If you want more long term storage, set up a NAS, or maybe just some usb external spinny spinny HDDs.
This kind of thing is already a fairly rapidly growing niche in China, if you hop on AliExpress and just look at how many different kinds of things are offered and roughly fit into this kind of setup scenario.
AOOSTAR, Minisforum, others, etc.
PCs are already modular and have been for decades. My CPU has a heat sink larger than a MiniPC.
That said I have been tempted by a MiniPC for a low power device, and with how good graphics can be on some CPUs you could do some fairly decent gaming on them too. But that is probably more than I would want to spend on one yet.
Currently game on an RTX2070, no plan on upgrading for more performance any time soon as it is plenty. I wonder how many generations we are from CPU graphics being comparable?
Not sure how they manage for the higher end CPUs that are going to put out quite a bit more heat.
I’m just using modular to describe like… a series of connected independent things that is not inside of one box.
I don’t know that there’s an actual term for this, and I get that yes standard PCs have modular component sets and configurations, but I mean more like a motorcycle and a side car, than … a car model with different trim levels.
Uh anyway, how far away are we from CPU integrated gfx being equivalent to modern GPUs?
Probably infinity amount of time.
Because CPUs and GPUs are basically defined by the different kinds of math they are optimized to do.
When you shove both of those things into one chip, that’s an APU, like what the Steam Deck or some consoles have.
When you jam CPU and basically LLM optimized chiplets together, thats apparently called an NPU.
All those AI Max’s and what not.
They can do GPU type things, but not as well as a similar caliber of APU… LLM math is similar to but not quite the same as GPU math… GPUs need a whole bunch of shit to handle unpredictable/rapidly changing ‘problems’ they are solving, whereas LLM get gigantic problems and then chew through them one at a time.
I know the video is over 3 hours long but you should watch it and should be concerned because how it’s going eventually there won’t be “comparable performance parts” or any parts whatsoever and it’s not a problem that you can resolve later it’s a problem that’s growing right now and will only get worse.
