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

  • network_switch@lemmy.ml
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    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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    “hype trumps performance” sounds like American cope. People desperately want an alternative to Nvidia and AMD.

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      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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        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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          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. I’m certain I’ll offend some sheltered white American people who eat up propaganda who are all about indigenous people but never bothered to really care about the US backed genocide of native Americans in Nicaragua or that native Americans in the US have the highest rates of suicide in the US or the backing of Pinochet in Chile or Los Halcones in Mexico or the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. What percentage of the North Korean and Vietnamese populations were killed in the US invasions, how many people were killed by the US in Iraq and Afghanistan. So many indigenous people killed by the US. Millions. Very likely pushing a million if not more just these last 26 years of indigenous people around the world. Then there’s the unwavering support for Israel and the genocide of Palestinians

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

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