I like this quote from Martin Luther King Jr.:
Ultimately you must do right because it’s right to do right. . . . You must do it because it has gripped you so much that you are willing to die for it if necessary. And I say to you this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and so precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren’t fit to live.
My rolls of pennies has a function afterall.
It’s a group orgy if they have a buffet.
i’m just not 100% sure where the morals/ethics line is supposed to go.
I’m not amoral it just seems like people arbitrarily draw lines and they seem so certain.
You have to draw your own lines, ones that are important to you. You shouldn’t let others tell you where does lines are.
As Martin Luther King Jr said:
Ultimately you must do right because it’s right to do right. . . . You must do it because it has gripped you so much that you are willing to die for it if necessary. And I say to you this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and so precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren’t fit to live.
“side loading” == installing
I think these are all good questions to ask ourselves.
Is it first order disagreements like this NVIDIA boycott, or is it second order as well ? Meaning any company that willingly works with NVIDIA or explicitly buys new NVIDIA gpu’s ?
It’s going to depend on your interest or ability to research. However, if one were to simply buy used items when possible, or choose a brand one thinks aligns with themselves after some research, I think that’s a good start.
GPU’s right now are ridiculous which means the secondhand market is tight, if your timeframe/need is also tight then it might not be possible to always do the “right thing™”.
If one thinks they might need compromise their morals, I think they should really consider their options. I’d rather pay full price for an old used GPU than give nvidia any money, but that’s my personal opinion.
Why pick 2014
I think this is just because car companies weren’t yet starting to surveil their drivers as part of a new revenue stream until 2014. You can read more about it.
Personally, I’ve removed myself from the American market about as much as I can while still living in the USA.
I’ve divested from American stocks.
I try to make/grow my own whenever possible, and rely on my local community more. I even started a community regenerative farm.
If I do think I need to buy something new, I try to either buy European, Japanese, or from a few other choice markets depending on the product, like South America for specialty wood and coffee direct from as small a manufacturer as possible.
I don’t expect everyone to live like this, not everyone has the luxury. But I do hope people atleast try to not pay companies that harm them.
It’s possible to need a GPU for work and other functions. But you never need a new anything.
new
New is the key word here.
Buying new boosts sales metrics, incentives investors & management, and is blissful consumerism.
We should be boycotting all companies that we don’t agree with. And NVIDIA is a department of war contractor and American Regime mega donor.
If you actually need something, and it’s possible to need a GPU, then you can buy second hand from within your community. Try to buy as local as possible, look for things like surplus office equipment or at local repair shops.
In your example of a car, buying a used car is also better than buying a new car in many ways, especially since cars made before 2014 were not able to surveil you.
Boycott bad companies / practices, and stop consuming the latest slop they put in the trough.
It’s optional to buy new gpus and games that require them.
No it isn’t!
Be ashamed when using windows and any microslop product.
Holy shit Timmy is that a Grima Wormtongue minifig?
Generative models, which many people call “AI”, have a much higher catastrophic failure rate than we have been lead to believe. It cannot actually be used to replace humans, just as an inanimate object can’t replace a parent.
Jobs aren’t threatened by generative models. Jobs are threatened by a credit crunch due to high interest rates and a lack of lenders being able to adapt.
“AI” is a ruse, a useful excuse that helps make people want to invest, investors & economists OK with record job loss, and the general public more susceptible to data harvesting and surveillance.
Stay up prayed fam
It’s a giant Amazon ad that uses actual footage of real wars.
Kitty Odysseus should just read The Odyssey and do a speedrun.
Sorry to hear about your depression, I’ve been there myself.
To paraphrase how I understand the quote.
Sometimes doing the morally right thing is hard to do, but it is important to do that as a human. If you haven’t found something important enough for you to take a stand on, to stick to your convictions and defend, then what are you doing?
I’m sure there is something you think is morally correct or morally wrong, like maybe you think harming children is wrong. If that were the case, you should defend children, as it would be good to stop children from being harmed.