Is there any issue with buying a card that was previously used for mining?

If used by a home user who didn’t know what they were doing they might have run it hotter for much longer than a typical gamer so the thermal paste might need a redo.

If used by some miner doing it even quasi-professionally or as a side-gig I’d much prefer it over a 2nd hand card from any typical gamer (most miners) they’ve kept the voltage/temps low and taken care of it far better than a gamer who might be power cycling regularly and definitely thermal cycling even more regularly.

Tough to sell any old jar of farts without somebody wanting it for some reason (like having already seen pics of your butthole and becoming a perverted fan of everything your butthole ejects).

It seems that way to us on the face of it but the lines that’ve been trotted out are firstly the worry that money is coming from an illegal source whether underaged or trafficked and secondly that money laundering could be happening, OF would be/is an extremely easy way to clean dirty money.

They used to have to set up actual businesses that did actual work in case a genuine customer appeared, now they can buy feet pics and jars of farts or whatever.

Invaluable

adjective

beyond calculable or appraisable value; of inestimable worth; priceless:

It’s funny how the few who’re totally sold on Bluetooth go “ugh, but then you’d need a headphone jack” as if it isn’t an upgrade for others which wouldn’t affect their ability to use Bluetooth at all.

Your timeline would almost certainly be a little less stupid if you did that with gusto, but people who’ve disagreed with you can also post things beneficial to you or post insights you hadn’t thought of or post advice you’d find useful. I was a heavy RES tagger on reddit and I’d often come across well-meaning or useful posts and comments from people who’d been marked for saying jawdroppingly stupid shit about some other subject.

As are crepes. Yankakes are kinda gross, the baking powder gives them a really weird squeaky mouthfeel, kinda like rubbing cotton wool between your fingers but for the mouth.

until it’s actually too late

Don’t worry - with everything else we’ve done to fuck up the environment and ignoring the filth in the oceans… it’s probably already too late! We’d have to massively curb consumerism to get the happy ending and…ooh, new shiny toy!

Interesting. Never even considered it as an option, probably says something!

I know in your example you’re trying to give the right answer or explanation as you see it, but this is also very closely related to Cunningham’s Law:

The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it’s to post the wrong answer.

So you’re still providing a service even if it feels bad to have an expert steamroll whatever perception you had. Chances are tons of people had the same vague notion as you and your misguided logic eventually led to the correct path.

If you’re not terrified of the oblivion before your birth, why be terrified of the oblivion after your death?

There’s still a one-time remove ads/tracking price which is €23 for me, varies by region. The lifetime Sync Ultra is for cloud back-up features, can be ignored.

old.lemmy.world should fix those woes.

I’d believe it’s organic tbh, I was waiting for Sync or Boost to drop before I fully took the plunge. There are probably many others like me for whom those apps and others defined the Reddit mobile experience and the other apps for Lemmy (or the ones I used at least) weren’t as feature rich so it’s an easy choice to make.