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• Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Oh when will China start making HDDs and SSDs and GPUs and CPUs

  PLEASE China PLEASE flood the market with cheap, top shelf computer parts that will force Western corporations to lower their prices or go bankrupt when they don’t

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• Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  The AI bubble is starting to pop. All of these companies have made hardware and data center investments far beyond what is needed or can be sustained. The debt is piling up and they are scrambling to justify the immense build out. Musk allowing porn and CSAM on Grock for paid users , Chat GPT pushing commercials, Microslop putting copilot in everything and forcing adoption. Oracles server utilization remains low, Etc. etc.

  They now need to show immense growth and adoption in order to keep getting loans or justify burning cash to their shareholders.

  Chat GPT and Oracle will be the first to fall, then xAI etc. Google and Microslop have other revenue sources that can weather the storm. But they won’t continue their massive investments.

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  • Zetta@mander.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨seconds⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure the massive buildout is for training new models. Their justification is they need more compute to get the superhuman level intelligence AIs that they have been claiming. So if that pans out their probably gonna be fine, but seems unlikely that’ll pan out how they want it to

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• myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  This is the plan. They want us to rent virtual machines from them. No buy, only rent. You will own nothing, think of the shareholders and be happy, no….proud, you are here for their benefit.

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• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  These psychopaths are absolutely giddy about taking all our jobs away.

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• heiligerbimbam@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Image

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  • fortnitefinn@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    The boobs really sell it.

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  • yarrage@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Those are some big ear muffs

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    • Thassodar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Absolutely massive

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  • krimson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Haha this is hilarious

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  • edgyspazkid@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    XD

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• kescusay@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A while back, I was thinking about upgrading my living room entertainment PC. It’s got a decent video card in it, but some of the other hardware is getting long in the tooth.

  Now, my plan is to focus on software tweaks to squeeze the absolute best performance I can out of it, and keep the hardware as-is until it starts physically breaking down. And when that happens, I’ll find refurbished hardware to upgrade it with, rather than spending the exorbitant fees to buy anything new.

  What mystifies me about all this is that it’s obvious what the end goal is: No more PCs, and everyone just rents dumb terminals connected to AI data centers that run everything and have all the compute power. The problem is that literally no one but AI companies want that. Not consumers, and not other companies that sell software and services to consumers.

  When cars replaced carriages, it was because people actually wanted them. Cars had real-world benefits over horses. But this shit? No one wants it. Gamers want game performance you simply can’t get with streamed games. People who work with computers for a living don’t want their ability to do anything to vanish if their ISP has an outage.

  Shit’s gonna get stupid, fast.

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  • skip0110@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Its the “service economy.” Instead of making things, industry (in the US at least) is heavily skewed towards providing services (aka things you subscribe to or need to buy each time you use).

    It does not benefit the individual.

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    • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      They can service deez nutz
      Bastards

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  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    It’s awful.

    I bought a second laptop for general use, because I wanted a Linux laptop and a gaming-dedicated laptop running Windows.

    I got a very nice, used Acer for about $600 that runs everything I need AND functions well with a dual-boot, so I was thinking of selling my gaming laptop. Now? I’m holding onto it so I don’t have to get price gouged if my main computer fails.

    Wild world we live in.

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    They BADLY want to be able to monitor our every communication, because an authoritarian government that sees North Korea as a prime example, needs to be able to clamp down hard on any notion of dissent.

    And we will have huge work camps all over America to send seditious traitors to, to be leased out as slaves to corporations, under the 13th Amendment. You love your precious Constitution, don’t you? You expect MAGA to abide by every word, don’t you? Well then you better love the 13th Amendment, too.

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• rafoix@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Are all these companies going to go bankrupt when the AI bubble pops and their products flood the market?

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  • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’d only go bankrupt if they were spending the capital to increase capacity and were left holding the bag. And nobody’s interested in doing that.

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  • Korkki@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We might dine well on used datacenter hard drives in the coming years.

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  • Stiggyman@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Issue is that the production is for server gear not consumer. So it’s U2 and other connectors rather than SATA.

    Same goes for RAM it’s ECC and won’t work in normal consumer PCs (AMD has like unofficial support)

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    • turboSnail@piefed.europe.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I guess I’ll have to buy one of those racks when the bubble pops. Just add an LED strip on the outside and a gaming GPU on the inside. Surely they support PCIe?

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    • errer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Oddly enough ECC used to be quite common for consumer hardware…I had an old Mac desktop in the late 90s/early 00s with ECC memory. But at some point it was decided that consumers don’t want to pay the extra $ for error-free RAM and mobos largely dropped support.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So that’s why consumer drives and ram are not affected by the price rise! /s

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• michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Onion Prices Reach Record Highs; Data Center Security Guards Secure Soup Contracts for Three Years

  Onion prices have surged to unprecedented levels, setting new records in markets across the country. Traders report that supply shortages, rising transportation costs, and increased demand have all contributed to the sharp increase, placing pressure on households and restaurants alike.

  In response to the soaring prices, security guards working at several major data centers have taken an unusual step to manage costs. The guards have collectively signed contracts to secure soup supplies for the next three years, aiming to stabilize their food expenses amid ongoing market volatility.

  Industry analysts say the spike in onion prices reflects broader trends in food inflation, which continues to impact consumers and businesses. Meanwhile, the long-term soup contracts highlight how workers are adapting creatively to rising living costs.

  Market observers will be watching closely to see whether onion prices stabilize in the coming months or continue their upward trajectory.

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Won’t bother me, I despise onions. Cry, onion lovers, cry.

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• oh_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  All these companies suck.

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• Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Who is still using HDD these days?

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  • ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    HDD is still good for backups.

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  • Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    How much for 100TB of drives $1500 How much for 100TB of NVME $10,000

    Yes I still use hard drives in my threadripper servers and NAS.

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  • MadBigote@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    HDDs are great for self-hosted apps. I own a NAS with three WD 16TB HHDs amd 2M. 2 SSDs.

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  • anon_8675309@lemmy.world ⁨58⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Such a naive take

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  • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I do, I didn’t really need to spend 3-4x the money for my server storage and regular HDDs are fast enough for media streaming. 6x18tb would’ve been unnecessarily expensive as SSDs

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• sefra1@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Let’s just pray my anime harddrive doesn’t fail meanwhile…

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• Kushan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  HDD prices have been creeping up for a while now. I noticed this as I was looking to add more storage to my server, checked prices late last year, figured I’d hold off a bit longer, checked again a few weeks ago and they were much higher across the board. Also a lot less stock for higher capacities. Took the plunge, bought enough storage to get me through the next few years.

  Glad I did as the drives I bought have continued going up in price. This article just confirms it for me.

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