I heard a rumor that Amazon did it to dominate the toy market

I certainly would not put it past them.

Why are people still picking Nvidia anymore?

As one example, NVIDIA Optix unfortunately beats everything else for path tracing. Maybe AMD is fine for gaming, but if the goal is the most cost effective hardware for a Blender Flamenco render farm, for example, you’re stuck with NVIDIA for the moment. I’d love a better alternative, though.

AMD doesn’t even show up in this list until the end of the second page. The M3 benchmarks are encouraging, but the price for a Mac with a 80 core M3 Ultra is several grand vs $800 for a 5070 Ti with a similar score, so it isn’t exactly a compelling NVIDIA alternative at the moment.

VRAM is the main downside of NVIDIA, since larger scenes regularly exceed 8Gi and it may very well worth buying g a lower powered card to get more VRAM.

https://opendata.blender.org/benchmarks/query/?compute_type=OPTIX&compute_type=CUDA&compute_type=HIP&compute_type=METAL&compute_type=ONEAPI&group_by=device_name&blender_version=4.5.0

Nevermind, articles like this suggest it’s all going to be proprietary to give Amazon greater control, which honestly I’d be more surprised if they did make something more open: https://en.todoandroid.es/Amazon-Vega-OS%3A-Everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-Fire-OS-replacement/

Maybe they’ll use and contribute to Plasma Bigscreen? Probably not, but I’d love to see Bigscreen get more love.

I can’t see paying more than a few hundred for this form factor. Love my Steam Deck, but for the times when I feel like being treated to a nicer gaming experience, that’s when it’s time to break out the real gaming rig with a 4K screen or a VR headset. With such a small screen, streaming games to the Deck on max settings via Moonlight / Sunshine doesn’t really look that much different than the same game on medium settings running on the Deck, so paying double or triple for a slightly more powerful machine with a slightly better screen doesn’t make a lot of sense for me.

Agreed, not sure why the mustache is the focus. For instance, Oliver Hardy is a famous comedian with an iconic toothbrush mustache. Charlie Chaplin as well. I guess if you’re going to sport a toothbrush mustache, get yourself a black derby and never, ever take it off. Pretty sure Jones doesn’t own a derby, though.

It’s a weird concept that you buy a device and then have to find an exploit that hasn’t been patched in order to do what you like with it as though you’re a hacker trying to breach someone else’s system, but it’s actually your own system you’re trying to breach.

I use k3s and enjoy benefits like the following over bare metal:

• Configuration as code where my whole setup is version controlled in git
• Containers and avoiding dependency hell
• Built-in reverse proxy with the Traefik ingress controller. Combined with DNS in my OpenWRT router, all of my self hosted apps can be accessed via appname.lan (e.g., jellyfin.lan, forgejo.lan)
• Declarative network policies with Calico, mainly to make sure nothing phones home
• Managing secrets securely in git with Bitnami Sealed Secrets
• Liveness probes that automatically “turn it off and on again” when something goes wrong

These are just some of the benefits just for one server. Add more and the benefits increase.

Edit:

Sorry, I realize this post is asking why go bare metal, not why k3s and containers are great. 😬

Pay surveillance capitalists to track you, except with a verified real identity? I’ll pass, thanks, and will stick to directly supporting creators I care about.

Yeah, I think Netflix has like a few thousand movies and a couple thousand TV shows, and some of us here have similarly sized Jellyfin libraries. On the other hand, YouTube has billions of videos. It seems DRM would be a significantly more difficult and costly problem for YouTube.

Worst part with Meta Quest is it seems you have to sign up as a dev and give them a credit card in order to sideload (a.k.a., install stuff on the device you purchased). So, you can shell out hundreds for one of their devices and the device and all your data are belong to Meta. I assume it’s the same deal with these glasses. Zuck off, Zuck.🖕

Agreed, I’d totally buy a Meta Quest as well if they didn’t zuck up all their devices with spyware that can’t be removed.

Just when you thought Ring cameras raised grave privacy concerns for the public, introducing face-mounted cameras and microphones streaming straight into Zuck’s data centers. Good thing it’s shit and probably won’t sell that well, I guess.

Show your support for surveillance capitalism and get yourself a face-mounted camera and microphone.

Well, reading the replies to this post, it became clear to me that the title is provocative, but isn’t accurate. Sure, nerds don’t like ads and generally are annoyed by inflated and unsubstantiated claims, but it’s inaccurate to say that marketing doesn’t work on nerds. Many people who read the title obviously recognized this and came here to set the record straight, hence my reference to Cunnungham’s Law. I’m sure others who originally agreed with the title came around to a different understanding like I did after reading the comments and reflecting. “Hey, maybe I’m not immune to marketing after all.”

Overall, I feel like I’ve been called out on my bullshit in this post and am wiser as a result. Hope others had the same learning experience. Maybe I’m a jagoff as well for being so openly reflective about it.

As OP, I have to admit this post unintentionally leverages Cunningham’s Law as its main marketing tactic, as do many other popular posts on Lemmy. Post something that might sound correct on the surface, but is demonstrably false, and you will get hundreds of nerds clicking on it saying, “that’s bullshit; let me set this fucker straight!” 🤣

I ran it on a RPi4 years ago, but it didn’t perform well enough. It performs fine on an old laptop, but not so much in a Pi from my experience. Can’t speak to the RPi5, though.

Yeah, a study with actual data would beat an opinion piece for sure.

So the corporate sites will be more difficult to access and the sites that pirate the same content will be business as usual. Since teens always ask for their parents’ credit cards to buy embarrassing content legitimately instead of pirating them anonymously, these laws will absolutely stop underage viewing.

The Steam Deck is a perfect example of why the title of this post is nonsense. Ha, I added this post early in the morning yesterday and have been facepalming over the dumb title I wrote ever since.