I thought for sure this was fake but it sadly isn’t. Really should take up smoking and drinking again to get off this ride sooner.
Obligatory "You will own nothing and be happy"
Submitted 10 months ago by rcmaehl@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 10 months ago
schema@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Buying alcohol and cigarettes is dumb. For just $99.99 a month we’ll give you 30 whole cigarettes and a six pack of beer 100% for free.
chaos@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Where I live that might actually be a good deal on the cigarettes. Haven’t bought one in a while though so I’m not sure.
EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Don’t do that to yourself. Not only are you worth more than that, but doing so would only bond you to two more hypercapitalist shitboots than you already are.
Stay strong. Spite is a wonderful motivator, if nothing else.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 10 months ago
Something something don’t die for your depression, makes redacted by law
gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I always wonder how these places don’t get ripped off left and right by people just making the first payment and bailing with the hardware but i suppose they probably just make up for it from the handful of suckers that actually keep paying for stuff.
NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is it worth long term damage to your credit for a $700 piece of hardware? For many, probably not.
gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
these types of “rent-a-center” businesses don’t exactly target people with credit scores that can be damaged much (it can only go so low), these are the kind of places people who are extremely irresponsible with their money go to get things because they literally have no other option.
tal@kbin.social 10 months ago
I suppose if you could put custom firmware on the card, you could have host-side software that talks to something remote and to the card and has to activate the GPU each session.
I think that the issue here is less the technical barrierd and more "the financial side doesn't seem to make a lot of sense".
CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Most people have a pc because they don’t want subscription for anything…
tal@kbin.social 10 months ago
I doubt that leasing physical possession of a GPU makes much sense unless there's a market for secondhand GPUs.
It can make sense to do something like vast.ai, where one buys access to a remote GPU, if one has "bursty" needs. Like, maybe someone needs access to a high-end GPU for AI stuff, but only on a sporadic basis.
EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
If you lease something, you make periodic payments; i.e. it isn’t free.
hungprocess@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
EatMyDick@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I would love to lease if it brought more value but as currently structured it’s trash. EVGA step up was good for this buyer.
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 10 months ago
I’m actually the target audience for this - or I would be if I had the money for it. I get tired of having to buy and configure new hardware every couple of years just to keep up with new software.
sirlington@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Good news, Moore’s law and dennard scaling is pretty much over. We could (in a better system) buy for the next decade. Unfortunately this is not profitable so it won’t happen
WhyIDie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
the post fits this community so well, but every fiber of my being wants to downvote this for how depressed “existence as a service” is making me
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 10 months ago
$71.99/mo for 12 months ($863.88) for the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL White OC Edition, when it retails for around $600. SIGN ME UP!
wholeofthemoon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“Yes but the upgrade to the next gen model is basically free because I’m paying the same price anyway” /s
ICastFist@programming.dev 10 months ago
Boy, I can’t wait to pay a grand total of ~1700 dollars to get a FREE upgrade when the next gen arrives! Totally worth it!!