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    ipad was released and it was too expensive. i remember my first chineese tablet. i bought a small tablet from aliexpress. its not great or terrible now they are really good. so they will cath im sure.

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    Unfortunately this is irrelevant unless

    1. There are several independent reviews confirming the performance figures

    2. These GPUs are widely available to a global market

    Even then, we can see with modern trends that Nvidia maintains a passive market lead because they are the default choice because they have a market lead, because they are the default choice, ad infinitum

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    Been running Yeston 2gb gpus with AMD chips for a while with no problem. I’d buy the same with SMIC chips as long as a) it lowers the price b) has Linux drivers c) works with Ryzen CPUs.

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    I built a PC earlier this year which should last me a long, long time. I fully expect my next one to come almost entirely from China

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      Yeah no, i still prefer being spied on by the US over being spied on by China.

      Better yet, get me a computer that has only open source hardware, one that I can finally call my own

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        fellas, is it better to be spied on by the world hegemon that has fought uninterrupted wars for decades?

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            Name the country that it would be better to be spied on by the US than by China in.

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              Yeah. As soon as I posted this I started thinking through that and realized that I’m completely wrong. It may actually be better for anyone to have China spy on them. In fact, especially USA citizens.

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            in a country that was couped by the cia before. so probably not a nice place.

            but then again that doesn’t really narrow it down one bit does it…

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          Or by a government committing genocide on subsets of it’s citizens? A government that has disappeared citizens for decades for bit falling in line? Yeah, the US does that now too but at least it’s just starting. At least the US has had some sort of free press until recently. Good luck with any of that in China

          Also, you missed the part where I said that nobody should be able to spy on me, we need open source hardware. That is the much bigger point. The US and China both suck, I don’t want to have to deal with either

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            offer me any proof of any genocide that’s not just unsourced articles in western msm or pictures of random prisoners, and ill believe it. i mean we can see heinous shit that proves genocide coming daily from gaza. similar for russia/ukraine war.

            china is much better at cooperating with everyone else, while the us will usually resort to violence and couping us, bribing our politicians, invading us, etc. one is more dangerous than the other to be spied by, for sure.

            we need open source hardware

            yes, sure. that’d be great. you might like how china has been investing on trying to develop risc-v lately.

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    Geekbench did some testing a month ago, and came up with ‘comparable to a gtx 660.’

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      Yeah that’s mentioned in the article, hopefully the new run is representative of an overall improved software situation and they’re not specifically targeting geekbench results.

      But then I guess even if they are targeting geekbench then this run is representative of the performance of the GPU if they’re able to optimize for specific games anyways.

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    Also don’t worry about the spyware tracing everything negative you might say about the CPC…

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      Even if China were doing that, what would they do with the information? Nothing, because they don’t give a shit about you, because you’re on the other side of the planet. They’re not doing that because they’re not cartoon villains wasting their time and effort on nefarious plots against Western randos.

      Also, almost all of your current hardware came from China, so I guess you’re not actually that worried about it.

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      GPUs being able to spy on you is a problem. Linux and OSs should work on ways to minimise this possibility. But specifically worrying about them ratting you out to the CPC is in my opinion much less serious than spying on you for commercial interests. Ultimately it’s possible to avoid visiting China if you aren’t Chinese. Including Chinese websites.

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      Even if they traced your CPC complaints, they’re literally so far away from you to even matter while the US is literally next to you and has threatened to annex you ffs 😂 assuming you’re canadian, by your instance

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      Don’t worry, the US govt will proudly sell the opportunity for palantir or some other bullshit AI surveillance company to embed spyware into your hardware to ensure you’re not a terrorist*

      *someone critical of the trump regime

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      Even if that were true, it’d be better than spyware tracing everything to the US Empire. What’s China going to do to me when I live in the US?