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 99% percent of tech arguments: your accepted tradeoffs don’t match my accepted tradeoffs 😅

people care about different things, maybe just got to accept that and move on. No point in arguing. 
 Yeah, thats what social media is for. 
 Not every perspective is equally solid though. Sometimes the tradeoffs undermine the stated goal, and this is my nerd catnip. 
 Yeah. I worked with an engineer with the polar opposite temperament as me. Opinionated and pretty fairly aggressive. Picking your battles is a top skill in engineering for sure. 
 I actually think there is a point to arguing. information exchange is invaluable, even if people don't ever come to admit it.

What I think is a problem is sometimes is that people assume that because they think they are right that others will change their minds if they articulate and assert it well enough, and then get mad because others seem unconvinced

In that case, as you said, might be better to just move on... 
 When truth becomes only subjective, the forms and methods by which we searched for it are abandoned. 

Formal (and informal) civil debate is a lost skill to modern culture. 

It has been replaced by dogmatic rhetorical devices used to crush opposition and establish moral superiority.
 
 well put. 

people are playing debates rather than having conversations and exchanging information. 
 Precisely 
 Actually, it's 98% of arguments 🤪 
 This is the truest insight I have ever seen about the tech world.


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 I like tech arguments though because there's almost always more information, different ways of accomplishing similar tasks, and the ability to learn something new and exciting. 

That said:

AMD is better.
Nvidia is better. 
 *** AMD is better at CPUs.
*** Nvidia is better and GPUs. 
 amd gpus are better on linux. Better driver support. 
 Agree. I gave up on Linux gaming (again) last year. Dual booting Winders when I want to game. 
 while driver support is better on linux , that is only part of the picture. AI workloads are still better on Nvidia than AMD and Gaming performance is better on Nvidia

I will always choose AMD personnally but NViDIA is top dog. 
 Especially no point in arguing when the other hasn't considered tradeoffs altogether.   
 True for politics too.  
 True for western culture(s) in general. 
 Nice 
 Life is life ^^
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