Extinction By RTX: The Graphics Card Fossil Record

When tech support connects to your machine and immediately tells you to "kindly get a different computer," you know you've achieved peak digital dumpster fire status. Poor Jennifer K just wanted to help with an exam setup but apparently stumbled into the digital equivalent of opening a haunted storage unit. Two minutes of remote access was all it took for her to realize this laptop belongs in a museum... of technological horrors. That's the tech support equivalent of a doctor walking into the exam room, taking one look at you, and immediately recommending a priest instead.

Ah, the eternal CS vs. Engineering rivalry. Patrick thinks he's found the perfect burn—CS majors are just programmers who run screaming at the mention of actual hardware. Meanwhile, the CS major is having an existential crisis at the mere utterance of "circuits" and "CPUs." As someone who once spent three hours debugging code only to realize my monitor wasn't plugged in properly, I feel personally attacked. Hardware is just software you can't Ctrl+Z when you break it.

When your neural network sees a GPU and a 3D loss function plot trying to solve what your brain does naturally: "Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power." Hardware engineers sweating as they build increasingly monstrous GPUs just to calculate gradients, while the human brain sitting there using 20 watts and somehow understanding why that cat meme is funny. The ultimate flex of biological computing.

The bravado of developers who claim they "fear no API" only to cower in terror at the sight of Vulkan is just *chef's kiss*. For the uninitiated, Vulkan is the low-level graphics API that makes even seasoned graphics programmers wake up in cold sweats. It's like saying "I'm great at assembling IKEA furniture" and then being handed the blueprints to build the actual IKEA store from scratch. The documentation alone is thicker than a computer science textbook, and the error messages might as well be written in ancient Sumerian. Meanwhile, OpenGL (referenced in the title) is like the friendly neighborhood graphics API that suddenly looks like a cuddly kitten in comparison.

The divine intervention of tech support! You've spent 6 hours debugging that obscure driver issue, tried 37 Stack Overflow solutions, and reset your BIOS twice. Then suddenly—a random Reddit post from 2018 with exactly your error message appears like a holy vision. The post has precisely one comment: "nvm fixed it" with no explanation whatsoever. Yet somehow, the mere existence of this ancient thread gives you the determination to try that one weird registry hack you dismissed earlier. And it works! The Reddit archaeology expedition saves the day again.

Remember buying that fancy 1TB SSD thinking "I'll never fill this up"? Fast forward to installing Call of Duty and three AAA titles, and suddenly you're getting those pathetic "low disk space" warnings. Modern games are like digital hoarders—200GB here, 150GB there, with updates bigger than entire games from the 2000s. Your SSD never stood a chance against the bloated behemoths that are today's game engines with their 8K textures nobody asked for. The worst part? Half your library sits unplayed while consuming precious storage like a digital black hole.