Maybe you should stop being an ass and consider that when the product/brand has worked for MANY people, maybe the issue is you

Hmm. You’re right. It’s me with my exotic hardware and configurations, not the drivers that many other people outside of /r/linux routinely complain about. My bad. Different AMD drivers breaking some things and fixing others (while never being fully functional) is because of me. The drivers are literally perfect, and have been for years.

Lol. Delusion is just not a river in egypt. Keep fanboying, gonna block you now.

Nah. Nothing weird or wrong about my setup.

Everything worked fine with my Nvidia 660ti. When I switched to an RX 580, I had issues with refresh rates and Freesync (that I can remember, it’s been awhile and I don’t care to keep all this recorded.) Some versions of drivers would fix issues but cause others. Some versions required certain configurations to fix issues but cause others. It was a mess.

Switched back to the 660ti, no issues. Bought a used 1070, no issues.

Haven’t gone back to AMD since that horrendous experience, but maybe they’ve improved.

I think it’s sad how few people here are willing to acknowledge that AMD’s drivers may not have been adequate for most users even if they worked for them. I bought AMD listening to ya’ll, and was horribly disappointed.

I guess that’s part of why theory is no substitute for experience.

Nah. It was an RX 580.

I think instead of damage control for AMD, you could try to open your mind to the possibility that their drives may not be so superior that they work for everyone just because they work for you.

It’s at least possible, right?

That’s nice. It’s interesting how many people say one works better than the other based on their own experience.

I think it’s a testament to why people should go with what works best for them, and not just what people on the internet say works best.

Nah. It’s my experience with both Linux and Windows.

Both. The experience was horrible on both.

I bought an AMD GPU before and the experience was so horrible that it’s deterred me from ever buying one again.

I never knew how good I had it with Nvidia until I tried AMD. The main issue? Drivers. AMDs drivers were abysmally shit. I never had to ‘choose’ specific versions of Nvidia drivers to get them to work. I did with AMD, and some features would work while others would break depending on the version.

Ended up returning it because it was that bad.

To be fair, $65/month for gigabit fiber is pretty standard.

It’s what we got here in Southern Illinois, although I don’t use it.

“not everyone has the time or energy to make good decisions”

That’s what I pointed out when I said people can only vote for the bills they care about and ignore the ones they don’t.

Brexit is an example of the will of the people going against their own interests, but what about when Congress goes against the will of the people with a detrimental effect?

Is direct voting perfect? No. You will always be able to find issues with anything suggested. Is it better than a representative democracy? Probably, but not enough nations have implemented it so we don’t have much data to go on.

Buying people’s votes could be even easier, especially for those who don’t care.

This is when you start going into fantasy world territory. There’s no way in hell it’s cheaper or easier to buy individual votes than lobbying and campaign contributions. First of all, it’s illegal. How would you set something like that up so it’s easy for people who ‘don’t care’ while keeping it away from law enforcement? You can’t. All that may happen is small-scale vote buying, which already can occur.

Anyways. Thanks for being a fine example for why we don’t make progress. Better the devil we know, right?

making choices on my behalf

That’s the thing. They’re not making choices on your behalf.

Hence the “see how often Congress ignores the will of the people.”

Thanks.

Yeah, reddit’s combatfootage is a censorship hellhole.

I hope this place doesn’t become like that.

It doesn’t have to exactly match, but there should be enough overlap that you don’t feel as though you’re just supporting the ‘lesser oppressor.’

Unfortunately, most people like being oppressed or controlled so we don’t get any politicians that fight back against it.

People will actively lower their standards so they’re not disappointed when they don’t get what they want.

Direct voting has some definite drawbacks mostly involved with the amount of time it takes to fully read and digest each instance of bill making.

So? People can vote for the bills they want, and ignore the ones they don’t. They’ll still have more power than they do now.

Funny. You use “allowing other people to make decisions for you” as though it’s a drawback to direct voting when that’s all a representative democracy is.

Any idea where we can see the aftermath?

I totally agree.

Yes, the filibuster only serves to allow Republicans (the minority) to prevent the will of the majority.

If there is ever an issue that the Democrats feel requires filibustering, then the American public is more than likely to just ignore it if it passes. This is because of how wildly unpopular it likely is, and how obvious it would be that loons in red states are trying to control sane people from blue ones.

Filibuster is the dumbest thing.

Any republican policy that’s worth filibustering would just be ignored by the general public, anyways.

It seems like it solely benefits minority rule to stop the majority from doing what it wants.

Sounds like terrorism.

Not really.

Either your vote matters, or it doesn’t. You can’t have it both ways.