Least bad perhaps. There are no good ones.

ASICs and GPUs do share significant dependencies in the semiconductor supply chain. Building FABS fast enough to keep up with demand is difficult and resource constrained, both by expertise and high quality materials.

You are wrong about the market value of Bitcoin’s impact on the profitability of Bitcoin mining.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/051115/bitcoin-mining-still-profitable.asp

Another thing to consider is that many coins still use proof of work, and an ASIC designed for one might not work for others. Some miners (especially the most scammy ones) choose the flexibility to switch coins at will. That doesn’t change the fact that ASIC now dominates, but GPUs do still have a share, especially for some of the newer scam coins.

Profitability of Bitcoin mining is dependent on the value of Bitcoin, which has more than doubled in the last 12 months. It’s true that large scale miners have moved on from GPUs to purpose designed hardware, but GPUs and mining hardware are mutually dependent on a lot of the same limited resources, including FABs.

You are right that crypto doesn’t drive the GPU market like it used to in the crypto boom, but I think you are underestimating the lingering impact. I would also not rule out a massive Bitcoin spike driven by actions of the Trump.p administration.

Don’t forget the crypto scammers.

Once again, with Republicans, every accusation is a confession. But yeah, Clinton was shit enough to make it easy for them.

He got out in front of his PR operation on that one, but a lot of leftists had him pegged long before that incident. It was obvious that he was funding an astroturf campaign to deify himself, and he has always been rabidly aggressive to worker’s rights.

Not without it, just a lot less. 1plus used to be not too bad. Not like today where dozens of apps come with everything.

I used to buy my phones with a specific eye towards avoiding bloat. It was still possible to avoid most of it 8-10 years ago, but not anymore.

It’s called enshitification. Deshitification isn’t so much a thing.

Where should he have been gunned down then? The footage was pretty good, but better lighting and sound would be nice.

Getting gunned down is exactly what should happen to mass murderers. That is exactly what this guy was. When the system fails as consistently as ours has, people are going to take care of justice themselves. The fact that it hasn’t happened at scale is the result of remarkable restraint on the part of the working class.

This isn’t a Lemmy thing. This response has been nearly universal in every space where public comments can be found.

It’s almost like they’re acting like a public corporation.