>I'm hoping the crypto crash lasts for about six months or so and a lot of these miners who were taking my precious gaming cards start to struggle ...I want the pain to really hurt. They deserve it.
I quit gaming to focus on disinformation because when I went off to college, folks from that community went so far as to walk uninivted into a house party thrown by an ex-girlfriend to repeat dead memes then act surprised when the response was nearly kinetic.
(I was starting to get involved with the local green movement instead of Pokemon Green, they were forever angry sitting alone at home for hours never led to a girlfriend. Always whining about finding a girlfriend, never a partner, the rude little "incel"s)
Anyways, I agree that the Bitcoin boys deserve to be pain, and they should pray to whatever god they wish that it's only psychic after being so harmful to the planet to try to route around consent (and AML laws - 10k is 10k dumbasses).
The hard truth is that Lyft, Airbnb, Bitcoin, Grubhub, a lot of it is reinventing the cyberpunk lifestyle you could have lived in the 90s or could TODAY with a little cash and respect for the fact that people are not programs and do not have the memory of goldfish.
> If I can pick up a 6900 XT for $499 or so, especially used from a miner who's had it undervolted and likely running at 80% or less all day, I'll bite.
It's sad that places like Ebay are useless due to so many scams, and Craigslist suffers the same issues if you don't "keep it local" -- at least when I used to do deals on CL, I had the option of just taking a Louisville slugger to someone if they tried to walk away with both the currency and the merchandise.
(Or getting in my car and driving off if they tried to negotiate too hard over ten bux.)
Anyways thanks for raising this idea of undervolting -- I had a Game Gear as a kid so I'm forever on the lookout for ways to avoid my battery going dead.
(It took six AAs and would die just as you got close to Lake Erie, the thing fucking sucked power worse than a Dogecoin farm)
>I would blame NVIDIA and AMD for not ramping up production, but the sad fact is, there's only so many foundries capable of producing GPU chips and those are TSMC and Samsung, so it's really a matter of not having enough capacity.
My worry is they'll build foundries across SE Asia, and then folks like Apple will coerce the smaller countries in parallel more easily, now that China has built up a middle class that, much like the times leading up to the Tienanmen protests, is once again ready to rise up against their totalitarian oppressors.
Take a look at the "big board":
Taiwan is staring down the barrel of the PRC, and South Korea is forever under the threat of annihilation since Kim Jong Dumbass could launch a massive kinetic strike at any moment, and major powers like China have stated they have a no first strike nuclear policy.
(On my end, I'm just one guy, but I also am feeling hamstrung by a decade plus long promise to only relatiate, never intrude, in the "cyber" realm... but I'm just one guy, taking a break from making purposefully inflamatory GIF laden conference slides since apparently diplomacy gets you nowhere :-) )