AlSweigart@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoThe Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Publictech.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square392fedilinkarrow-up11.51K
arrow-up11.51Kexternal-linkThe Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Publictech.yahoo.comAlSweigart@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square392fedilink
minus-squareSteve@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 day agoExcuse me but whens the last time you priced a “high end pc”? You’re living in the past…
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day ago whens the last time you priced a “high end pc”? 👉👈 Maybe five years ago. Even then, I’ll admit “high end” is generous. $800 is still a ton of money for an ugly pair of glasses with a gimmick nobody has implemented.
minus-squareCybranM@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 hours agoA high end gpu is >$2000 nowadays 😅
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·21 hours agoI mean, I saw 32GB ram sticks going for $1k the other day. But you can get a Ryzen 9 9950X for under $700. The chips going up into the four and five figures are for very high end video rendering and machine learning.
minus-squarepivot_root@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoTo be fair, you can get a $800 high end PC… but it would be used and 4 to 5 generations out of date.
Excuse me but whens the last time you priced a “high end pc”? You’re living in the past…
👉👈 Maybe five years ago. Even then, I’ll admit “high end” is generous.
$800 is still a ton of money for an ugly pair of glasses with a gimmick nobody has implemented.
A high end gpu is >$2000 nowadays 😅
I mean, I saw 32GB ram sticks going for $1k the other day.
But you can get a Ryzen 9 9950X for under $700. The chips going up into the four and five figures are for very high end video rendering and machine learning.
To be fair, you can get a $800 high end PC… but it would be used and 4 to 5 generations out of date.