Soooo after a month of trying, I have given up trying to get my 7900xtx setup back from my ex.
I have been grinding at work using a ryzen 5500U handheld with a smashed display and a usb-c dock as my stopgap system.
This is what I have settled on as the replacement:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/GGrhwY
My primary usecase is g*ming, although my most played titles are HEAVILY cpu bound to the point that an Arc B580 would do in the counterfactual world where Intel did not operate factories on destroyed Palestinian villages.
The 9070xt is a gambit that ML hype keeps prices inflated through the launch of UDNA in 3 years.
There is no picket line to cross. There is not significant organized opposition to intels equivalent to ibm selling to Nazi germany. Buying an iof bond would not put the ops limited funds to more efficient use in the form of pc parts but scooping up cheap parts from an ailing manufacturer would.
Your consumptive decisions do not define you or exert control over the productive forces which put them in the market place.
Buying a Mac doesn’t make you a free thinker and not buying a Mac doesn’t make you the real free thinker.
I am not sure that there is enough common ground to have a good faith discussion if you are handwaving away not the (limited) successes of BDS, but its very existence.
E: I would find it a lot more comprehensible if your expressed statement was along the lines of “get something used so you are putting money into the pockets of a cryptominer ghoul rather than DoD contractors”, but “this loss leader deal from a failing direct beneficiary of palestinian genocide is a fine choice to make” just bends my brain
They are making new kinds of liberals every day I stg.
Disengage