Chapotraphouse

I don't think it's going to work out once the over-inflated pricing bursts. Yeah there's some people who want to have a digital serfdom, but I think it's going to crumble. I don't see how a "Own nothing be happy" society would be capable of re-producing itself.

Not if they can avoid it. Selling stuff is usually necessary for a company that produces stuff. It's just that right now there are more valuable markets than the consumer market. Because this is a ludicrous bubble ai companies are willing to pay unreasonable prices.

But when this bubble pops apart from all the other financial damage, no one will be willing to pay the ridiculous markup on gpus.

we just need to give sam one quadrillion more dollars and he will invent a computer that can suck you off,

Ram will be cheaper when the next recession hits.

no, cheap stuff will always be cheap

Wanna install Linux? Go ahead! What are you going to install it on though, your grandpa's old Pentium?

Yes, install Tiny Core Linux on it.

I'm being only half facetious, if you have an older PC it'll still run a lightweight modern Linux distro. Kind of makes me feel all conspiratorial with all the perfectly fine office PCs getting turned into e-waste recently just because they can't run Windows 11

That's why I'm herding x270s and old thinkpad laptops

get off the lathe

| Wanna install Linux? Go ahead! What are you going to install it on though, your grandpa's old Pentium?

Sure. Oh you thought that I NEEDED a fancy GUI solution and couldn't survive with just a shell. Fuck, I'll connect into to the UART connection of a twenty year old DVD player to root it and get a shell on that if I need to. It already runs Linux.

| Wanna ditch subscription services and sail the seas? Oops, it looks like hard drives cost 5,000 dollars and are only sold to enterprise customers. I guess you're not storing that media anywhere

Yeah, I guess it'll be hard now to get the latest 4K rip of Disney-Marvel-Spy Kids slop. But that also extends to consumer devices that require storage for legitimate streaming too. I'd suspect some creative ideas will come about once Hollywood starts taking a REAL hit.

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If you buy a new computer for Linux, it doesn't count. You need to buy a at least 3 year old Thinkpad laptop on ebay.

Nah, enterprise PCs will always be a thing and corps pushing for PC refreshes means those enterprise PCs that have spend the past 3 years running Outlook, Powerpoint, and Teams will find its way to consumers once the 3 year warranty expires.

Yeah, probably. Cory Doctorow's been writing about the war on general purpose computing for over a decade now.

nah someone else will fill the void, and micron will be back when the ai bubble pops

Used Xeon servers are somewhat ($100-$300) cheap on ebay (at least in the US). Server gear has its drawbacks, mainly the weight, noise, and power consumption, but if you are concerned about computing access then they can be a decent buy. Anything aside from DRAM and modern CPUs/GPUs is unlikely to change in price. Previous generation server gear is either ewaste, or cheaply produced from commodity parts in China. If you don't need cutting edge performance (and you don't) then computing access is very unlikely to be cut off by the market.

our only hope is the bubbling popping and tanking prices back down to somewhat normal levels

It'd be way easier to make linux illegal. Capitalists want to sell you things, and computers and all the requisite components are things. If they made linux illegal then subscription services on the only allowed OS can still be a thing.

My thinkpad better last

there is an answer to this. RETVRN to DDR3

"Why would you want a computer that can be customised to your liking and can have an open source OS Distro that is fully under your control, when you can buy a new AI, spyware and marketing bloated phone that we will update to not work with any of our apps in 2 years. Greedy old fashioned poors! Fine, if you insist on being like that we're just going force all the bad parts of Phones into all new computers."

cpus should be pretty safe from the llm bubble, they need good gpus and oodles of ram

from what i've seen, prices for cpus are pretty stable, ram is up like 4-5x since like september, gpus like 1.5-2x

We're going to have to just steal computers from them aren't we?