there are plenty of home computers for sale for under $500. i’m on a $700 laptop right now that’s 4 years old.
they just can’t run modern games. i can run 2d games just fine or old games.
the gaming crowd seems to forget that most computers don’t use integrated graphics and a $1000 PC is a luxury purchase.
at that pricepoint it’s just about showing off how much money you have.
typical rich way to backhand brag about how rich you are is to whine about how ‘expensive’ things are that are luxury items.
20 bucks an hour
minimum wage isn’t low income. most people in low income housing make well above mimimum wage.
stop conflating these two things. also, just because you think it’s too expensive doesn’t mean it isn’t. other people have different price thresholds than you. i know people making half what i make paying way more rent than I am, because that’s what they’ve chose to do because they believe they ‘need’ to live very expensive places. plenty of people are willing to vastly overpay for ‘new’ housing, as it’s an amenity. just like in my city you pay an extra $1000 to live near a subway stop and if you go 1km away, the rent is way cheaper. or that if you want pets the rent goes up $500+
that sounds cheap to me. where i live a new 1bd/1bath will be closer to 3000-3500
crappy leaky roach filled basement apartments go for 2200
nobody buys them. sales for such vehicles are tiny compared to larger cars.
it doesn’t make sense to sell subcompact cars if you only sell 5000 of them a year.
motherboard prices haven’t inflated too much yet. gaming/consumer motherboards aren’t in demand from the AI industry. the want server hardware
most folks will pay. all my PC gamer friends are just paying $200 per 16GB stick now.
they have to give up their bragging rights if they don’t upgrade their PCs
i mean, this is how it works in practice.
it’s just that the company is on whomevers side that’s in power. they donate to both campaigns usually.
it’s called guilt by assocation. it’s shitty and lame type of logical fallacy
if you live on the same street as a nazi, you must be a nazi. because apparently you have to sell your home and move away if a nazi moves in.
of course, if you do this and it’s a non-white person you are racist… and a bad person, but if you do it for a nazi you’re a good person.
it’s not as if the logic of the thing is what at’s fault, and the accuser has hyperbolic sense of other people’s social obligations to appeal to their sensibility.
it doesn’t matter what you want, society dictates the rules.
unless you go off the grid or something. then you can go make your perfect society, because there won’t be one.
nobody doesn’t care about money. anyone who says they don’t is a liar and are usually the people who are the most easily bought.
yeah but you have at least half a brain.
most internet users barely have 1/10 of one. and demand other users be banned for not sharing their opinions, but would be outraged if they were banned for their objectionable opinions.
Edit: And you know what? I’m just going to fucking say it. There’s too many armchair activists here who won’t let you enjoy a single moment without reminding you that something bad is happening somewhere in the world and that you have some kind of moral obligation to be angry all the time about it. And if you’re not angry all the time then you’re somehow part of the problem.
Amen.
I am so sick of being lectured by some weirdo about ‘WHY AREN’T YOU DOING ANYTHING’. It’s nothing more than them projecting their pathetic helpless miserable life onto others. ‘if you dont’ support my pet issue than you are a morally bankrupt person!’
a lot of people who came here are the insufferable types from reddit who think it’s their ‘duty’ to harass and shit on anyone who dares hold a different view of the world than they do, or who is more open minded than ‘anyone i don’t like is a nazi’.
i am not using piefed. maybe it’s better for admins, but I’m not an admin.
that isn’t true. anytime i have gone there it’s WAY more memey. it looks more like mastrodon/twitter than reddit.
I am not interesting in meme platforms.
piefed is full of memes. i hate it.
i also am annoyed at having it constantly shrilled at me. i am thinking about blocking it.
you’re on a different instance
Sucks. Those people should probably get better jobs.
Nobody is coming to save anyone. We have to save ourselves.