It’s optional to buy new gpus and games that require them.
It’s optional not to buy a car but it certainly limits your access to things.
God forbid going without if it doesn’t mean contributing to something shit. Or whatever integrity and conviction is.
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. If someone is making some effort, you can’t condemn them for not going all the way, because going all the way is living in the wilderness without even metal tools.
You can very easily use and chew up the resources of what you opposed with very little effort and it’s incredibly beneficial to do so, but only take from that indecent system, don’t enable or add value to it.