Because that’s what true “citizenship-by-blood/heritage laws more or less straight out of the 19th century” would imply.

Adults: destroy world for next generation

Children: become nihilists

Adults: surprised_pikachu.jpg

Goddamnit, “healthcare” is the fucking least of our worries right now!

I wish. My ancestors moved to the US from Germany in the 19th or early 20th century, but I’m pretty sure I’m not eligible for German citizenship.

It’s typical bully behavior: “hey, no fair defending yourself against my aggression!”

LOL, what a whiny little bitch.

It’s weird that you think it’s relevant.

Nah, skill issue. Get gud and resolve the dependencies manually. 🤓

No, you’ve got that backwards. Standing in line at a brick-and-mortar store on launch day is the best strategy to reliably get a card at MSRP. Otherwise, you’re either having to constantly keep checking for months on end to snag a card during the brief windows when it’s in stock, or pay way over MSRP for the privilege of easy availability, or deal with all the risk and complexity associated with Craigslist/eBay sales of used stuff.

Also, in this particular case, (a) a $600 9070 XT is a much better value than a $700+ 7900 XT with similar performance, and (b) this generation has tangible feature improvements (namely, decent ray tracing) that you just can’t get at all going back a generation. Edit: and oh yeah, © there’s also the imminent threat of Trump tariffs inflating the price 25% if you don’t buy pretty much immediately.

I mean this in the most polite way possible, but why did you need a new GPU so quickly?

7.5 years is “quickly?!” I’m replacing a Vega 56 from 2017!

If you mean why did I have to buy it on launch day, that’s obviously because that was my best shot of getting one at MSRP, or at all.

I’ll probably end up with a cheap Cooler Master Q300L, or maybe one of those Fractal Design tower cases with the walnut strips on the front if I decide to spring for it.

The main thing is, though, that I didn’t want to have to buy a new case at all. I’m annoyed at having bought the wrong card because of the urgency of the situation and then not being able to easily fix my mistake.

Just because it’s the only thing that works doesn’t mean it works every time.

Also, WTF do “protests” have to do with anything? Protests aren’t violence.

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Won’t fit. That case supports GPUs up to 310x145x47 mm, but the one I just bought is 288x132x56 mm. It’s that extra width beyond “2 slots” that’s the killer, both for your suggestion and my existing case.

fractal ridge

That one does fit the new GPU, but did I mention that I’m also still using a 3.5" drive and a full-size ATX PSU?

What I really want is something that has a layout similar to my old case, but literally just maybe half a centimeter wider:

The fact that landlording is bad and not a profession isn’t the point.

The point is that @MithranArkanere@lemmy.world’s argument failed to convincingly argue that because it was logically fallacious:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_division

In other words, the fact that thing A would “destroy of the economy if everyone did it” is an emergent property of everyone doing it, which doesn’t apply to any single entity doing thing A.

I stood in line at Microcenter Thursday morning to get a 9070 XT. I arrived at about 8AM (an hour before they opened), and the line was already wrapped around the side of the building. They let people in slowly after opening (apparently so as not to overwhelm the sales staff), and I got near the front door by about 10. They were handing out vouchers, and they actually still had quite a few left, with almost all the different models available when they got to me. After I got my card and left, I looked back at the store and the line still wrapped around the side of the building.

Frankly, from my perspective, I’d say the availability of cards was “surprisingly good.” It’s just that there was so much pent-up demand, even “surprisingly good” supply wasn’t good enough.

You want to know what the punchline is, though? Not expecting to have much choice in cards, and not having had time to research the differences between the ones made by different board partners, I ended up getting the “Gigabyte Gaming OC” version, which sounded good because it had a slightly higher max clock speed but was still $600. In retrospect, I should’ve gotten the PowerColor “Reaper” version because every other version is too wide to fit in my ITX computer case. [Womp, womp.] So now I have to decide between paying extra to replace a case that I otherwise like, or try to hope the cards actually do get restocked in a timely fashion (and still at MSRP) so I can attempt an exchange? I guess the moral of the story is, even if you “win” it’s still a fucking pain in the ass.

The last card I bought was a Radeon Vega 56, also on launch day (7.5 years ago!) and I was also damn lucky to get it. I cannot believe that the GPU market has been continuously fucked up since then!

I’ll be even more frank: because it’s the only thing that works.

Those folks have been militaristic badasses through history, from sacking Rome, to Jeanne d’Arc, to Napoleon, to the modern French Foreign Legion. But they make one tactical error with the Maginot Line, and everybody calls them “cowards,” SMH.

In the UK, we don’t even have paper money anymore, it’s plastic… Maybe it’s more of a USA skill issue, too?

US “paper” money has been made of cotton-linen blend cloth for over 100 years.

If the property tax scales with inflation and social security is also adjusted for inflation, but your property tax is getting more expensive relative to your social security income, something’s not right.