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[–] MonkRome@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While I agree, there are other reasons to hate on them even if they improved in one place... Deceptive marketing, melting cards, poor vender management, etc

[–] nous@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but their competitors are not doing much better in those regards either. The whole graphics card industry is doing shitty stuff, hell most mega corps are these days.