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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: "They Just Have To Be Good"
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:10:07 -0000 (UTC)
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 14:28 this Saturday (GMT):
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:50:06 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>
>>Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote at 15:11 this Thursday (GMT):
>>> On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 22:40:06 -0000 (UTC), in
>>> comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, candycanearter07 wrote: 
>>>
>>>>Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote at 18:30 this Sunday (GMT):
>>>>> On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 06:10:04 -0000 (UTC), in
>>>>> comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, candycanearter07 wrote: 
>>>>>
>>>>>>I think the GPU price is more because of the AI bubble rn..
>>>>>
>>>>> Crypto followed by AI. Nvidia fell into Scrooge McDuck swimming gold.
>>>>
>>>>Yeah, wasnt NVIDIA the biggest stock for a bit?
>>>
>>> Still is doing quite well, in fact. Until the bubble bursts.
>>>
>>> I wish I had gotten in at the ground floor.
>>>
>>> It might _still_ be beneficial to get in, but the dramatic upside that
>>> existed before crypto found its stride is, IMO, done. I don't have the
>>> "intestinal fortitude" to time the bubble burst window and get out.  
>>>
>>> I think Nvidia's fortunes will end in an equally dramatic, and perhaps
>>> sudden, downside. It's not a "buy" for me because its market valuation is
>>> nearly insane, IMO.*
>>
>>
>>And I don't use NVIDIA because of the Linux stuff :)
>
> I've never understood Nvidia's reluctance to open-source their
> drivers. Especially since increasingly their core users --not gamers,
> but crypto & AI bros-- aren't Windows based. Even the much-ballyhoo'd
> "we've open sourced a few drivers" from a few years ago was largely
> smoke and mirrors. Is so much of Nvidia's functionality built into
> their drivers that they dare not release the code?


Who knows. My bet is they're either trying to hold onto "security
through obfuscation" or are being forced to by a contract..
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