Edward Snowden doing GPU reviews? This timeline is becoming weirder every day.

"Whistleblows". What a moronic take, in this regard taking the word of Edward Snowden is like taking the word of a random stranger in the street. At least we know on what Edward Snowden is likely spending his days on in Russia: Gaming. Wouldn't blame him, it's not like he can freely travel.

Every time I see a headline that contains the word “slams,” I want to slam my head on the table

That headline is so stupid that I refuse to read the article

I'll wait for the Julian Assange review.

But what does Ja Rule think?

Edward Snowdon reads a spec sheet

Was this written by AI? The headline word salad contains all the buzzwords.

What the fuck is wrong with this timeline.

Do the amish accept atheists?

So now we care what Edward Snowden says about vram? We need him to tell us that it should be 24 gigs?

An infamous former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) contractor and whistleblower has unexpectedly shared his opinion on the state of the graphics card market.

Man who did big cool thing once also has opinions on unrelated thing, news at 11.

Snowden added, "As someone who wants to sweep away corruption, there's a lot to like in the new ShamWow. And for those really tough, dirty stains, there's OXYCLEAN!!! With ShamWow and Oxyclean, you don't need to be Rushin'!"

I can’t see the context because it’s freaking X, but I bet that’s in reference to local ML hosting.

There’s a big movement to get away from corporate AI, and I don’t need to explain the importance of that to the Lemmy crowd. But Nvidia is indeed artificially crippling consumer VRAM to stop them from being used for that too much, and protect their enterprise GPU market.

The most bizzare thing is that AMD is inexplicably complicit even though they have like zero market share in that space. 48GB 7900s (and so on) would have obliterated Nvidia and sold like hotcakes, much less actually using their modular memory controller architecture… But no? They restricted their OEMs from doing that because they… Don’t want money, I guess.

Every one who bought the 7900xtx laughing their arse off running 20GiB models with MUCH better performance than a 4080/4080Super lol

Yeah that does seem a bit weird, my four year old RX 6800 has 16 GB VRAM already

What is even this ?

What the fuck is going on with the world

The video card monopoly (but also other manufacturers) have been limiting functionality for a long time. It started with them restricting vGPU to enterprise garbage products, which allows Linux users to virtualize their GPU for things like playing games with near-native speeds using Windows on Linux. This is one of the big reasons Windows still has such a large marketshare as the main desktop OS.

Now they want to restrict people running AI locally so that they get stuck with crap like Copilot-enabled PCs or whatever dumb names they want to come up. These actions are intentional. It is anti-consumer & anti-trust, but don't expect our government to care or do anything about it.

I legit tried to understand how a lackluster VRAM capacity could spy on us.

You're about 30 years too late, but I'm glad you're finally here

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