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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Uhhh, I went from a Radeon 1090 (or whatever they're called, it's an older numbering scheme from ~2010) to a Nvidia 780 to an Nvidia 3070 TI. Skipping upgrades is normal. Console games effectively do that as well. It's normal to not buy a GPU every year.

[–] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 hours ago

Ain't nobody got time (money) for that!