In the times when floppies started to die out we had external USB floppy drives. I’m sure you would be able to find one if you wish.

I remember when we didn’t even need radiators on the top PC processors. Yeah, those were the times…

They need money, not therapy! All that suicide shit comes from them being too poor, not because some city-drama.

€300

I doubt that OP talks about machine learning. And still, Nvidia’s driver is an additional source of problems.

linux

Don’t buy Nvidia. It’ll be a pain in the ass, especially if you use something like Debian testing where kernel is updated quite frequently.

AMD would be a good choice.

Imagine a thermostat needing an internet connection.

Toilet paper danger!

“Always” will last for 5-7 years max.

Because some influencer say you should. Works this way for too many people.

Regurgitation without critical thought is

called synopsis and is a vital part of “popularization of science or engineering”

Also sprach Zarathustra.

Of course: baby Jesus hates popularization of science or engineering. Baby Jesus loves your money and obedience.

You’re hugely overestimating the size of that “leaving”.

Reddit thinks that it has so many content creators that it can sacrifice a lot of them to keep others in line. Not sure in a big perspective, but so far Reddit has succeeded in what it is doing.

reddit doesn’t own anything of value

Wrong. Reddit has a tremendous amount of diverse information. Lemmy is empty. It fills the hole for most basic news and stupid memes, but that’s it. Lemmy doesn’t have technical information. Technical dialogs (the only variant of useful dialogs) are impossible here.

that we can’t have for ourselves or do for ourselves here

Oh yes. We can. But we don’t.

we won this small victory in a grander fight

Running away isn’t a victory.

They wanted you out. They got what they wanted. They win.

… by losing. They won.

You should search and subscribe to the relevant communities. “All” section is, of course, just a pile of unsorted craziness.

Please whistle if you find something like that and not completely dead empty. I prefer to ban people I don’t like by myself according to my own ideas of what is right and what is wrong.

Marketing voodoo, I suppose.

Here is the result: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/files/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-04-21-152425.png