Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoDRAM shortage fuels fake GPU scams as China-based fraudsters exploit the supply crisis — RTX 4080 GPU sold at cut price was actually an RTX 3060 mobile chip with fake VRAMwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1169arrow-down13
arrow-up1166arrow-down1external-linkDRAM shortage fuels fake GPU scams as China-based fraudsters exploit the supply crisis — RTX 4080 GPU sold at cut price was actually an RTX 3060 mobile chip with fake VRAMwww.tomshardware.comSahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-squareSims@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoThe key point of the article is: “China-based fraudsters”, so ‘bad china’ ™, and the rest of the content was just an excuse for that purpose…
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 day agoAmericans are going to be so fucked when the only companies producing consumer hardware at scale at labeled “Bad China Companies”. I remember people hating Japan and Korea back in the '80s, before Sony and Samsung killed Magnavox and strangled Phillips. I guess time is a flat circle
minus-squareHadriscus@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 day agoThis has been uncovered by Brother Zhang… who obviously has, uh… an anti-China agenda… 🙄 https://www.youtube.com/@fydn
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 hours agoI don’t think Zhang wrote the headline. Sort of the dig with these stories. Universal problems get spun as Uniquely Bad Country problems and “Chinese engineer gives his fellow enthusiasts good advice” becomes “Don’t trust hardware from Bad Country”
The key point of the article is: “China-based fraudsters”, so ‘bad china’ ™, and the rest of the content was just an excuse for that purpose…
Americans are going to be so fucked when the only companies producing consumer hardware at scale at labeled “Bad China Companies”.
I remember people hating Japan and Korea back in the '80s, before Sony and Samsung killed Magnavox and strangled Phillips.
I guess time is a flat circle
This has been uncovered by Brother Zhang… who obviously has, uh… an anti-China agenda… 🙄
https://www.youtube.com/@fydn
I don’t think Zhang wrote the headline.
Sort of the dig with these stories. Universal problems get spun as Uniquely Bad Country problems and “Chinese engineer gives his fellow enthusiasts good advice” becomes “Don’t trust hardware from Bad Country”