I do not buy products based on company morals. There is almost no publicly traded company that won’t sell the consumer out in a heartbeat.
If I bought components based on company good/bad I wouldn’t even be able to build a computer.
NVIDIA - Bad, Ai bubble, oligarchy
AMD - Just as bad, Nvidia coat tail rider, oligarchy
Intel - Bad, poor consumer practices for years
Any company making RAM- bad, participates in price fixing and only get a slap on the wrist.
The only company on this planet I will blindly buy from is Costco. The CEO said “if you change the price of the $1.50 hotdog combo I’ll fucking kill you” - good
Otherwise I just buy what I need from where I can get it and move on with my life. Even avoiding Amazon is dumb since they make most of their money from AWS which means you’d have to boycott most of the internet.
but I’m not excited about Nvidia right now and there isn’t a company on the planet that seems to want to offer me an alternative
Which is pretty clearly about the moral implications of choosing a Nvidia card vs the lack of any real alternatives (and AMD itself being no better than Nvidia).
If you have no moral qualms about it, there’s near zero reason to go AMD or Intel anyway. Nvidia drivers start working fine on Linux once you use a mainstream distro and avoid the KDE+Wayland combo. Performance tends to be better for the same money and you get CUDA.
I do not buy products based on company morals. There is almost no publicly traded company that won’t sell the consumer out in a heartbeat.
If I bought components based on company good/bad I wouldn’t even be able to build a computer.
NVIDIA - Bad, Ai bubble, oligarchy AMD - Just as bad, Nvidia coat tail rider, oligarchy Intel - Bad, poor consumer practices for years Any company making RAM- bad, participates in price fixing and only get a slap on the wrist.
The only company on this planet I will blindly buy from is Costco. The CEO said “if you change the price of the $1.50 hotdog combo I’ll fucking kill you” - good
Otherwise I just buy what I need from where I can get it and move on with my life. Even avoiding Amazon is dumb since they make most of their money from AWS which means you’d have to boycott most of the internet.
You don’t, but the comment you replied to said:
Which is pretty clearly about the moral implications of choosing a Nvidia card vs the lack of any real alternatives (and AMD itself being no better than Nvidia).
If you have no moral qualms about it, there’s near zero reason to go AMD or Intel anyway. Nvidia drivers start working fine on Linux once you use a mainstream distro and avoid the KDE+Wayland combo. Performance tends to be better for the same money and you get CUDA.