this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (1 children)

$71.99/mo for 12 months ($863.88) for the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL White OC Edition, when it retails for around $600. SIGN ME UP!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Yes but the upgrade to the next gen model is basically free because I'm paying the same price anyway" /s

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Boy, I can't wait to pay a grand total of ~1700 dollars to get a FREE upgrade when the next gen arrives! Totally worth it!!

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought for sure this was fake but it sadly isn't. Really should take up smoking and drinking again to get off this ride sooner.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Buying alcohol and cigarettes is dumb. For just $99.99 a month we'll give you 30 whole cigarettes and a six pack of beer 100% for free.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The Addiction Plus subscription

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Where I live that might actually be a good deal on the cigarettes. Haven't bought one in a while though so I'm not sure.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't do that to yourself. Not only are you worth more than that, but doing so would only bond you to two more hypercapitalist shitboots than you already are.

Stay strong. Spite is a wonderful motivator, if nothing else.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Something something don't die for your depression, makes redacted by law

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair some of these rentals are cheap enough to be worth it.

The last time I checked, it would cost me about 15 dollars to rent a vr headset for a month!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Definitely worth renting VR headsets because a looot of people abandon them after a while.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I might just do this to see if I like them. 500 to 1000 is a bit steep to see if you even want to invest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Seconded, friend gave me his Vive after upgrading, I used the thing for about two months and now maybe once a year if someone wants to try VR for the first time.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I always wonder how these places don't get ripped off left and right by people just making the first payment and bailing with the hardware but i suppose they probably just make up for it from the handful of suckers that actually keep paying for stuff.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it worth long term damage to your credit for a $700 piece of hardware? For many, probably not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

these types of "rent-a-center" businesses don't exactly target people with credit scores that can be damaged much (it can only go so low), these are the kind of places people who are extremely irresponsible with their money go to get things because they literally have no other option.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A good GPU hasn't been $700 for a very long time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, nowadays you can get a good gpu for under $350 (6700 xt)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I suppose if you could put custom firmware on the card, you could have host-side software that talks to something remote and to the card and has to activate the GPU each session.

I think that the issue here is less the technical barriers and more "the financial side doesn't seem to make a lot of sense".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I doubt that leasing physical possession of a GPU makes much sense unless there's a serious market for secondhand GPUs. Then the leasing party can transfer the thing to someone else who wants it down the line, and you can derive benefit from that reuse. But that demand doesn't really exist today. Maybe if the rate of increase of performance on GPUs stagnates.

It can make sense to do something today like vast.ai, where one buys access to a remote GPU, if one has "bursty" needs. Like, maybe someone needs access to a high-end GPU for AI stuff, but only on a sporadic basis.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Most people have a pc because they don't want subscription for anything...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

What fresh hell is this?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I would love to lease if it brought more value but as currently structured it's trash. EVGA step up was good for this buyer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

LaaS: Life as a Service

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If you lease something, you make periodic payments; i.e. it isn't free.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

So we've come full circle and reinvented eMachines?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm actually the target audience for this - or I would be if I had the money for it. I get tired of having to buy and configure new hardware every couple of years just to keep up with new software.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Good news, Moore's law and dennard scaling is pretty much over. We could (in a better system) buy for the next decade. Unfortunately this is not profitable so it won't happen