I can't use AMD

Lol. He gives chodes a bad rep. Call him what he is. A christofascist misogynist grifter.

I don't really disagree, but I think that was the original intent of the meme; to show Crowder as a complete chode by having him assert really stupid, deeply unpopular ideas.

The meme's use has become too soft on Crowder lately, though, I think.

I notice lately that many memes origins are worse than I thought from the context they are used in. Racist, homophobic, and lying people are not something I usually accept as entertainment, but they sneak their way unnoticed into my (non-news) feed through memes. I guess most people won't know the origins of the meme and use it according to the meaning they formed on their own. Other memes like the distracted boyfriend meme are meaningless stock photos, so I understand why many people use memes without thinking about the origins.

Anyway, thanks for pointing out who the person in the picture actually is.

I must admit when I learned this was Crowder I had a sad

Yes! This is a nice alternative template for example.

For the longest time I just thought he was that one guy from modern family.

isnt the joke that he wont change his mind on his stupid ideas, though?

From: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/btw-i-use-arch

BTW I Use Arch is a catchphrase used to make fun of the type of person who feels superior because they use a more difficult Linux distribution.

I think that's fair to apply to some NixOS users. Source: BTW I use NixOS.

Damn you're kinda right

Good point

I thought we were using the Calvin and Hobbes image now.

He is a despicable human. Point and laugh at the moron. Make an example out of him instead of trying to sanitize the internet.

Its impressive you know the source of this meme

I'm tired of people taking sides like companies give a shit about us. I wouldn't be surprised to see five comments saying something like "you shouldn't buy Nvidia AMD is open source" or "you should sell your card and get an amd card."

I'd say whatever you have is fine, it's better for the environment if you keep it for longer anyway. There are soo many people who parrot things without giving much though to an individuals situation or the complexity of a company's behavior. Every companies job is to maximize profit while minimizing loss.

Basically if everyone blindly chose AMD over Nvidia the roles would flip and AMD would start doing the things Nvidia is doing to maintain dominance, increase profit, reduce cost and Nvidia would start trying to gain more market share from AMD by opening up, becoming more consumer friendly, competitively priced

For individuals, selling your old card and buying a new AMD card for the same price will net you with a slower card in general or if you go used there is a good chance it doesn't work properly and the buyer ghosts you. I should know, I tried to get a used AMD card and it died every time I ran a GPU intensive game.

I also went the other way upgrading my mother's Nvidia card with a new AMD card that was three times as expensive as her Nvidia card ($50) would be on eBay and it runs a bit slower than her Nvidia card did. She was happy about the upgrade though because I used that Nvidia card in her movie server resulting in better live video transcoding than a cheap AMD card would.

What distro are you using? Been looking for an excuse to strain my 6900XT.

I started looking at getting it running on Void and it seemed like (at the time) there were a lot of specific version dependencies that made it awkward.

I suspect the right answer is to spin up a container, but I resent Docker's licensing BS too much for that. Surely by now there'd be a purpose built live image- write it to a flash drive, reboot, and boom, anime vampire princes hot girls

I can confirm that it works just fine for me. In my case I'm on Arch Linux btw and a 7900XTX, but it needed a few tweaks:

- Having xformers installed at all would sometimes break startup of stable-diffusion depending on the fork
- I had an internal and an external GPU, I want to set HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICE so that it only sees the correct one
- I had to update torch/torchvision and set HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION

I threw what I did into https://github.com/icedream/sd-multiverse/blob/main/scripts/setup-venv.sh#L381-L386 to test several forks.

CUDA?! I barely even know'a!

Then show us your anime titty pics!

AMD is catching up now. There are still performance differences, but they are probably not as big in the latest generation.

Things have changed.

I can now run mistral on my intel iGPU using Vulkan.

I completely unironically know people who bought a 4090 exclusively to play League

Not gonna lie, raytracing is cooler on older games than it is newer ones. Newer games use a lot of smoke and mirrors to simulate raytracing, which means raytracing isn't as obvious of an upgrade, or can even be a downgrade depending on the scene. Older games, however, don't have as much smoke and mirrors so raytracing can offer more of an improvement.

Also, stylized games with raytracing are 10/10. Idk why, but applying rtx to highly stylized games always looks way cooler than on games with realistic graphics.

Quake 2 does looks pretty rad in RTX mode

Playing old games with Ray tracing is just as amazing as playing new games with Ray tracing. I know quake rt gets too dark to play half way through, they should have added light sources in those areas.

Then again, I played through cyberpunk 2077 at 27fps before the 2.0 update. Control was pretty good at 50fps, and I couldn't recommend portal enough at about 40fps on my 2070 super. I don't know if teardown leveraged rt cores but digital foundry said it ran better on Nvidia and I played through that game at 70fps.

I love playing with new technologies. I wish graphics card prices stayed down because rt is too heavy nowadays for my first gen RT card. I play newer games with rt off and most setting turned down because of it.

Well, right after that Nvidia amended their license agreements stating that you cannot use CUDA with any translation layers.

The project you're thinking of is ZLUDA.

Use driver 535 until explicit sync is implemented by NVIDIA.