The paper tiger that’s flying off the hardware shelves.

  • poke@sh.itjust.works
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    11 days ago

    I mean… What’s the price? If it has “lukewarm” performance but only has a “lukewarm” price, then its competitive.

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    10 days ago

    Toms Hardware is such a weird rag now in how it baits on geopolitical yellow journalism Weird to see a formerly well regarded tech journalism site using politisphere-bro low brow terminology like paper tiger

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    11 days ago

    “hype trumps performance” sounds like American cope. People desperately want an alternative to Nvidia and AMD.

    • Rekall Incorporated@piefed.socialOPM
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      11 days ago

      Me too, but not from China. The CCP and its goons make the US oligarchy look like a reasonable choice.

      Although the US oligarchs and the segment of the US population that genuinely supports crime and corruption are doing their best to change this.

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        10 days ago

        Strong disagree. China is a reliable if not self interested partner.

        The US goes from selling you weapons to threatening to invade you randomly at the flip of narcissistic coin.

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          10 days ago

          Anytime I read someone use the CCP to contrast the American government positively, I’m like are we just ignoring the US’s current active bombings and trade embargos to starve populations of other nations and the others in the last century

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            9 days ago

            All they care about is them and theirs. Everyone outside the border is disposable and less than human.

            They imagine being a low income Chinese citizen working in a factory and think “I’d rather be living in America”. There’s no nuance, they can’t even put themselves in the shoes of people struggling in the US, it’s their own fault after all…

            Progranda is powerful.

          • Rekall Incorporated@piefed.socialOPM
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            9 days ago

            This is a gross simplification and it sounds like demagoguery to me.

            There are many well structured/thought out reasons why you would view US governance (in the general sense) in a more positive light than the CCP and this is true even if you are not American and aren’t subject to their locks propaganda.

            Framing everyone who holds that view as being ignorant or provincial really undermines your arguement.

            But what really gives you away is framing US involvement in Korea as an invasion of North Korea in the same vein as the invasion of Iraq.

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    11 days ago

    How many of them were bought not to actually play with them, but to analyze,them, discuss them in a blog, or similar?