Edward Snowden slams Nvidia's RTX 50-series 'F-tier value,' whistleblows on lackluster VRAM capacity

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

You literally state that it impossible that Snowden made a decision to support russia for more malicious reasons

I didn't say that, I said it's the most likely explanation.

he is innocent by default

First of all, that's what I assume by default until given enough information to assume otherwise. I don't have that information, so why would I assume he's not being pressuresd by Russia?

How do you know this?

I certainly can't know for sure, but I can see how Russia treats its citizens that oppose it (e.g. Alexei Navalny). You know, the whole "committed suicide by shooting themselves in the back of the head twice" thing. His value to Russia has run its course by now. I'm not saying he was threatened with death or anything, I'm saying there's a good chance he was made to understand that opposing Russian interests isn't in his interests.

One does not simply oppose Putin as a public figure in Russia.

That said, I don't think it's particularly important anyway. He's not really an expert on anything, certainly not Russian foreign policy.

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

The real question is whether they accept hypersexual autists.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

He did have a choice to not support russian genocidal imperialism

And I'm saying neither you or I know the consequences of making a different choice. Given what has happened to other public figures who oppose Russian interests (e.g. Navalny), I can't take anything Snowden says without a grain of salt, because it's impossible to know what's genuinely his opinion and what Russia wants us to hear.

If pressured to guess, I'm going to assume that Russia has made it clear that saying anything against Russian interests won't end well for him. I don't see him as a credible source for much of anything anymore, since he's certainly under Russia's thumb.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Who cares what Ja Rule thinks? I'm holding out for Busta Rhymes.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

That might've made sense if we was working as a contractor for Nvidia and revealed that info prior to launch. Maybe. Well, actually no, but it's a lot closer than whatever this is.

[timewarp@lemmy.world]

You know what is wrong, is that you come along & talk about how no one wants to use virtual machines because it is difficult. I just got done saying someone would have automated the process. You act like no one would have the choice but for it to be cumbersome & difficult. That is called a tiny brain thought process..

They can't do it right now cause vGPU is not supported on almost all consumer cards. There is absolutely a "root" layer BTW, in this case it would be the Linux kernel. It is far more technical than computers & then Windows "pops up." Seriously, it is obvious you have no clue what you're talking about, yet you're here spewing false information, for what purpose?

People are waiting on the sidelines for a better OS, where they can feel less invaded by Windows bloat & invasiveness but where they can still play their games & run their Windows apps, which Wine doesn't support everything. Thinks like Adobe products or Office solutions, a lot of users rely on these for work. Proton doesn't solve everything. I appreciate optimism, but then there is also the real world.

Consider your assumptions, that you believe developers are so dumb that if users could use virtual GPUs on consumer cards, that developers wouldn't be able to automate a solution that makes it simple.

[alphane_moon@lemmy.world]

This is exactly the type of narrative about Snowden's alleged sainthood that I was talking about.

Snowden publishes content in his social media that directly aligns with russian propaganda messaging (and can be directly correlated with calendar events) and also openly boosts and promotes anti-Ukrainian rhetoric. For example, statements like "all Ukrainians are Nazis" by Glenn Greenwald, (who I will add says this without being stuck in russia). I will also add that Snowden is clearly deeply engaged in his social media fame. Surely if he had reservations about being forced to promote russian genocidal messaging he wouldn't be shitposting about the Nvidia 5000 series GPUs.

I say Snowden is a piece shit for doing this.

You reply that we must ignore this and we must always assume that under any and all conditions the bad things he does is because of someone else and he always innocent.

You're making a claim of innocence that goes against the evidence that we do have (his social media account, that Snowden himself states is not run under pressure), yet you weren't willing to make any arguments to back up your claims.

You then bring up Navalny. What does he have to do with what we are discussing? Did you bring him up because that's all you know about russia?

When did Snowden start a russian political party that opposed putin's rule? How did he start such a party without knowing russian? Did he do it remotely from the US? And russians supported him even though he worked for US intelligence? This does not sound realistic.

What sort of information did Navalniy reveal about US domestic spying? Are you saying he left Germany and returned to russia because he was afraid of being captured by US authorities for revealing classified US intel info?

This is a very sophomoric argument that assumes the russians are some star wars bad guys that are completely incapable of any kind of sophistication in their external influence operations.

I never said anything about Snowden being a bad guy for not publicly opposing russian interests. I said he is a piece of shit for going along with supporting russian genocidal imperialism. These are two very different things and I don't understand why you are bringing up "opposing putin".

All that Snowden had to do was to not promote russian genocidal imperialism. Or at the very least to not be so casual about it if as you claim (for which you provided no arguments) he was pressured.