*Home server farm.
yesman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So, if the AI bubble pops, it’ll be a great time to build a PC
Pistcow@lemmy.world 2 months ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
When the AI bubble pops we’ll all be too broke to buy any PC anything.
The Buffett Index, America’s total stock valuation vs. GDP, is at 200%. It was around 130% in 1929, 2000 and 2007. Guess what? Chicken butts. (is what we’ll all be eating)
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There are a lot of “refurbished” drives from when the Chia bubble popped (a useless shitcoin that wasted HDD space with garbage data as a proof of cryptographic work)
calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Data storage devices are the last items you wanna buy second hand though. A drive failing could mean much more than just having to buy a new one.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 months ago
HDDs used for chia mining or similar shitcoins have been used for just a full wipe to create the huge rainbow table or whatever the shitcoin needed and then left on idle with very little read activity for years
It’s not the typical “end of life” server HDD with 80k hours of 24/7 full use
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This makes me think: if chia and similar coins simply generated the monopoly money by “finding the right numbers on the right rainbow table” … were they a covert way for some government to have a distributed password hacking network?
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 2 months ago
THIS is what I’m looking forward to. I’m guessing it’ll start sometime next year, so shortly after Christmas '26 will be the optimal time -at least that’s my long-term plan.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I thought similar during the GPU crypto mining phase. There’s always something blocking cheap PCs.
someacnt@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Wish I could confidently say that it is going to pop soon, but I am not sure the current rebound is the bull trap. Maybe the correction was just a small blip in a huge bubble…
probable_possum@leminal.space 2 months ago
Nope. China vs. Taiwan at the horizon. They really want that island back. It won’t be good for world peace and really bad for last gen litho chips.
China vs. Europe and China vs. US are topics, too. Hopefully limited to economic pressure.
There’s always the second hand market…
Natanael@infosec.pub 2 months ago
back
The current mainland China gov never had any real claims to it. The argument they use is the same as for why they believe they have the right to enforce Chinese law on Chinese people abroad, including having their own secret police in other countries, etc, they simply don’t accept being anything less than the sole authority and sole representative for everybody they consider to belong to any ethnicity which is “theirs”. The claims on the island doesn’t really have much to do with the island, but that it’s populated with people they consider theirs.
ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 2 months ago
Be a great time to set up RAID storage systems mmmmmmm I cannot waaaaait to have something resembling a backup.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Required message that “raid is not a backup [solution]”, it’s an uptime and recovery system.
My primary server uses raid along with snapshots, full local backups, and off-site backups for critical data to two different cloud providers on different continents.
My second server backups images to the primary. My vps also backups to the primary. Both get the raid and snapshot treatment, and local, but not cloud. Gaming servers, boinc, and home assistant aren’t ‘critical’ :p
sakuraba@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I’ll pray for this outcome, I need something that can actually run Unreal(requirements) Engine 5 games
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Like there won’t be some other hype to immediately take it’s place. Just like Bitcoin GPU prices never collapsed because it went right into AI hype.
Feyd@programming.dev 2 months ago
The next hype lined up is quantum
realitista@lemmus.org 2 months ago
Fortunately they won’t need most normal PC hardware for this. At least not CPU’s and GPUs AFAIK.
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 2 months ago
“Quantum emulation” all the hype, 1/1000th the efficiency, 1000X the excuses to sell hardware
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Tbf Bitcoin didn’t fuck with the GPU market, that was more etherium’s doing
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bitcoin trashed the GPU market before moving on to Asics. Then other coins kept going on GPUs.
T156@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hasn’t bitcoin not been viable on GPUs for over a decade? Most of the cryptocurrency hype was mining other coins on GPUs, or using them to do blockchain calculations for NFTs and things.
Natanael@infosec.pub 2 months ago
That was barely a year or two. Bitcoin wasn’t very popular globally speaking when the first ASICs already was in development, and in between the two there was FPGA mining
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Til. I’ve only ever seen the application specific boards for Bitcoin.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Which is even sadder because Ethereum has always been a trash coin.
percent@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Why? And which coins are good?
BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Im seeing a pattern here (capitalism)
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 months ago
AI messed up GPU prices even before AI was really a thing. When everyone was caught up in the Bitcoin hype, Nvidia already focused completely on AI instead of banking on the crypto hype, neglecting consumer GPUs. And we still feel that today.