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[–] unaware@hexbear.net 5 points 1 hour ago

I need a placebo DDR to fill the DDR-shaped hole in my heart GDR

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

soon they'll be selling us fake SSDs, fake GPUs, fake CPUs

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 5 points 1 hour ago

with rgb though

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

What does this have to do with google?

Buying (fake) ram from V Color doesn't intrinsically mean you support google.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

the big social media companies are buying up ram with all the money they get from ads and defense contracts. one would think it would be in the interest of gamers to avoid such a situation.

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

How exactly do you avoid a giant tech company buying all the ram capacity?

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

by not giving that company that much power

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I mean they already have the power, buying some ram, real or fake, isn’t going to affect that in any way. It’s not like you’re buying it from Google

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 2 points 1 hour ago

gamers are the treatlerite lot, they couldn't even bear the thought of avoiding steam bullshit, same with discord, same with streaming, now they are milked each day of the week, from hardware, software, online playing, ownership. each successive convenience choice led them to this - monopoly of nvidia who don't give a shit about gpu revenue anymore, ram and ssd prices being blown up by companies they get their treats from, their kids getting gambling addictions from lootboxes

[–] WilsonWilson@hexbear.net 9 points 2 hours ago

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[–] save_vs_death@hexbear.net 8 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

most of google's money comes from ads that everyone already blocks, giving black people away to the gestapo, and blowing up brown people; the upper bound of slacktivism was when stadia failed, i don't expect gamers to suddenly firebomb AI data centres

ads that everyone already blocks

30% of internet users use adblockers^[https://backlinko.com/ad-blockers-users#adblock-top-picks]

giving black people away to the gestapo, and blowing up brown people

This is a very small part of alphabet revenue. At the end of the day, Google is still a search company above all else.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

define everybody, as evidently the ads are still shown to someone. also gmail and youtube. same goes for meta and instagram/whatsapp.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The android Google ships on pixel phones is also full of ads.

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 2 points 12 minutes ago (1 children)

It is? I have a pixel and I don't think I've ever seen an ad pushed by the os.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 1 points 4 minutes ago

If swipe on my home screen I get articles that are all just ads.

[–] Strayce 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm old enough to remember RDRAM that -required- a blank stick in single-stick systems to terminate the signal.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 4 points 2 hours ago

the retvrn? you-are-a-serf

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I'm paying extra for cases without glass window.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 4 points 2 hours ago

someone patented this