Everything’s just a speculation object now.
I want to get off Mr bones wild ride!
What are computer adjacent hobbies that don‘t need a computer? Reading? Guess I will be reading lots of fiction soon. That is unless the government closes libraries in their cost cutting spree after making generous gifts to corporations who probably invested it all in AI. Oh well.
You could tinker with microcontrollers. They’re pretty capable when it comes to building smaller iot devices. Or pick up a used mini pc and start self hosting 😉
I am really enjoying messing around with self-hosting. I used to resell VPS back in the day, so it is fun to bring that knowledge to my home lab. I have been messing with docker to help streamline deployment.
My ~£700 4070ti s purchase from a couple years ago doesn’t feel so insane anymore. Glad I didn’t wait. Especially when the 32gb of ram was about 100.
I already miss the good old days. Back when RAM was affordable.
Even on release the 5090 cost more than my whole PC… and my PC literally had the highest end version of every other consumer grade component and a 9070XT (so highest end non-nvidia GPU). Point is it was always overpriced, a single component should not cost more than an entire rig.
If you see someone hacking AI vendors or their suppliers: No you don’t.
Just saw one on Amazon for 11,500 USD
At least game studios will optimize for lower-end hardware
So AAA gaming is basically dead, right? There might be a few gamers with current systems that they bought before all of this and some rich guys, but the majority will not pay those sums to play games. And that means that it will be economically insane to target a small group of gamers with a multimillion dollar budget
You don’t need a 5090, 5080, or even an NVIDIA to run games with very detailed graphics.
This means AAA game developers will need to actually sit back and optimise their games, rather than keep producing badly written code and bloated graphics.
What’s going to be down is the consumer segment at NVIDIA, because it’s not making them the money they’d like it to. Last time I read, the consumer segment was far below 5% of their income.
I hope you’re right because as someone who was insane enough to pay $1800 for a 4090 at launch, I intend on this card lasting me until at least the late 2030s. It was already $1000 more than what I’d consider reasonable for a high end GPU; no way am I paying $5K+ for a 50/60/70/8090.
Yes, anyone trying to run local LLM niw, let alone game, is way behind.
I’m really concerned that the future is subscriptions because high end hardware is rare for plebs
