Subj : Re: Crypto currencies and mining..
To   : Avon
From : paulie420
Date : Sun Oct 31 2021 05:31 am

 Av>  pa> Mining has been one of the worst things to happen to personal computi
 Av>  pa> in the past couple decades. 
 Av> 
 Av> why? Is it because of the power use and the fact that hardware (GPU
 Av> stuff) gets co-opted into that endeavor when it could be used for gaming
 Av> etc.

We haven't been able to buy a GPU from Best Buy in two years... so then companies came up with pretty cool AGPUs, built right into CPUs... and companies won't sell those separately either - you have to buy some new fangled laptop or gaming computer to get hold of one. Or play the eBay game at elevated prices.

Either way; the end users can't get a hold of high end compute and if they can we have to pay crazy prices for the privilege. Even if I over spoke about crypto being the ONLY reason - I think its been bad for the users regardless.



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