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  • I assure you, if you are a brokie like the rest of us, you will not have the money to spare in the ensuing recession. Honestly I expect personal computing is dead, likely for a decade or more, if it ever comes back.

    • 4 hours

      Yeah, there is also speculation that part of this build out is intended to force a shortage to get everyone to shift to thin client “cloud PCs” where everyone can be monitored and ad blockers can be avoided.

      • ZenivEnglish
        3 hours

        yes that’s exactly the plan and the reason these companies are paying profound premiums back to nVidia. If they don’t pay up nVidia will just announce another spark roll out and scare the crap out of them. They know as soon as newer computer hits the consumer market they are dead in the water.

      • 3 hours

        That shift has already happened.

        People on this forum trend to use personal computers but most people now only use phones. They might have a laptop provided by work but many don’t own one at all.

        The push to “the cloud” happened ten years ago. The people around here are the exception.

          • 3 hours

            For most people it is. If you removed Internet access from the device what do you think people would say?

            9 out of 10 apps are just web apps with a launcher and stop working the moment you disable data.

    • From one brokie to another, drowning in debt is indistinguishable from drowning in debt with a GPU and SSD.

    • 8 hours

      With the amount of integration it achieved to facilitate services and transactions? I am very skeptical of that. I expect to happen a serious market feagmentation and a great number of bankrupties but the void will be filled by new presences.

    • 8 hours

      It wont be like dead dead, but just stagnant. Companies like nvidia will just sell the barely passable hardware with even less reason to upgrade because the prices will rise and the performance jumps will decrease. The good thing is that even the entry level hardware was already good enough for 95% of use cases and what justified upgrades anyway was mostly AAA gaming graphics slop or heavy 3d renders for professionals.