u/GNTsquid0

I’ve been unemployed for about six months and for about a month I’ve had a new job lined up due to start next week. I’ve had nearly the whole month of May off and I don’t know what to do with all this free time. I feel like I’m wasting it.

I’m in my late 30s, perpetually single, child free and find myself painfully bored when I have free time. It was easy as a kid, I’d go play with friends or run around the woods. Now as an adult it’s perfect weather on a Tuesday and I can’t think of what to do. I’m incapable of entertaining myself.

Long story short I've recently got an archviz adjacent job after a good chunk of years as a 3d animator in TV/web. The studio I'm going to primarily uses 3Ds Max and VRay, and at the same time my RTX 3080 is having a lot of issues and through lots of tests I think the only fix is a new video card.

Given how bloated the price of (primarily) nVidia video cards have gotten I'm starting to consider getting an AMD or Intel card instead. While they are giving me a beefy laptop to work off of with an RTX 5080 in it, and I primarily use my personal PC for playing games if it ever comes to me doing work on my personal PC are there any disadvantages to using an AMD or Intel video card for this kind of work? I've only used nVidia cards for as long as I can remember and I'm not sure if other brands aren't supported as well or have issues with max/vray/etc.

Not sure if its ICE or a different federal agency, but 3 black Chevy Suburbans High Country SUV's with tinted windows drove by my apartment with lights on a few minutes ago. They kept honking at cars to get out of the way.

Be vigilant out there.