[tuyiown]

> coward

This can be a result of unexpected and costly if not worse, surprises.

[Zambyte]

More expensive than the alternative of buying another laptop? That seems like roughly the worst case anyways. Might as well try.

[inigyou]

No, he's right. Techies are cowards. Those poor but educated people in the slums of Shenzhen are reverse engineering Nvidia GPUs to find out how to add more RAM, so what the fuck are we doing to have less results?

[thenthenthen]

…well put, and their tools are basically beetlenut and long finger nails

[greenavocado]

> so what the fuck are we doing in our cushy lives?

Racking in money printed out of thin air by banks using a sleight of hand then forcing people to give us things in exchange for said printed money under threat of being bombed, invaded, and sanctioned

[inigyou]

This is true. And sitting back and not working and just expecting the money to roll in.