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Comment on RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives
MolochHorridus@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
This is about driving us nuts into cloud computing. Just as people are forced to upgrade their computers for Windows 11. First the drought then the saving tech bros emerge with their offerings.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 4 days ago
SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
You don’t need the latest Nvidea GPU to self host your own computing. You don’t even need ssds. You arguably don’t even need that much RAM. A ten year old Dell work fine. Are you self hosting your own AI? Probably not. So what? AI is not mature enough that it is a necessity.
Are computing prices coming down? Unlikely before the AI bubble pops. I think we have taken for granted that computing will perpetually improve price/performance. This is not sustainable.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
old computers eventually break.
eli@lemmy.world 5 days ago
And new computers can break.
Might as well never buy anything because everything can break!
umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
that’s not my point. relying on old hardware as the de facto solution for a long term drought will eventually see the planned obsolescence of having them fail without replacement.
we will eventually not have old computers we can turn back to.