Glad I'm stocked on memory cards that should last me for a while.
There is, however, a bigger problem that's not addressed - manufacturers seemingly only playing nice to big corporations while screwing the end customer.
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It's mask off time for capitalism. Business to person sales are no longer lucrative. All the money is in company to company now. See AI companies buying out entire present and future stock of PC parts until 2030. Regular people are no longer needed in this form of society. That's why the market goes up while job numbers and employment go down. The economy can now support itself without anyone else.
And now that they've had this incredible windfall, this is what they'll expect from now on.
That kind of thinking has ruined lots of businesses, like the movie business. Titanic made ridiculous money, so now that's all anyone wants to invest in. Why put your money in a smaller project that will make millions, when you can our the same money in a project that will make billions?
So great small movies never get made, while there are tons of crappy expensive movies instead, because the only real consideration was about the profit, never the art.
Except that it seems a lot of these trades are on-paper, and not involving the actual transfer of goods. The data centres aren't getting built. The servers aren't going in them. The power isn't being supplied. The tokens are not being generated. At least... It's only a fraction of what they are all saying.
Some auditor is going to have a field day.
Yes but who actually cares? If society tolerates no actual real physical transfer of goods and leaves it all speculative, it doesn't matter. The deals are made, financial institutions accept this, realistically it doesn't matter that none of this is "real". If society decides that it's real, it's real. Just like how paper money has zero real tangible worth. It's all an agreed upon concept. The same is happening here.
The economy we had for the last handful of decades is gone. Speculative economy where only the top percentage trades with itself is where we are at and where we will stay.
Who is actually going to be making the bread? Who is going to feed these delusional morons?
It's going to implode, as they are just parasitic mass.
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Manufacturers are supply constrained and they are basically selling to those that pay the most. Prices are above what most consumers will pay, so consumer lines become unsustainable.
The big question is what happens when they are no longer supply constrained. Will they be able to start the consumer lines back up again?
Consumer lines aren't unsustainable for them, they were able to sustain themselves with them just fine. They just aren't maximally profitable.
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Its the only place left to get huge sums of money, we're in the end game of capitalism
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Oh oh....shit. That's going to hit photography hard.
So photographers get hit double.. First being replaced by AI and then forced to increase their prices because of... Again AI. What a great world we live in
I don't like having eyeballs anymore 😭.
I gotta spoon . . ?
Won't those where we're going.
Damn.
Decades of nice safe cooperation and suddenly everythings fucked and now we can't trust eachother.
Its what happens when you let the mob run a country and it runs around smashing everything
Nah. It happens when you let an idiot run things.
Mobsters are still organized businessmen. Just criminal ones. They'd do a much better job.
The comments from Las Vegas are about the same. It ran a lot better when the mob was in charge. Now the corps are "optimizing revenue" everything into ruin.
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It’s okay we just need to build community fabs. Anyone know how to build a fab?
Ooh ooh I got this one. I've played modded Minecraft before.
First you find certus quartz ore until you get at least 4 charged certus, build a charger, then go looking for meteorites to find circuit patterns...
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And somehow it is worse than the high Covid-times
This isn't sustainable. Almost all of our infrastructure runs on computers and eventually it will reach a point where you have a computer in charge of vital infrastructure that won't be able to buy replacement part and it'll just fail.
nah all of the datacenters they build for AI, will come to use then.
they will say"Need computing? Don't worry, just rent from us, for an ever increasing and enshittifying subscription"
We can't even get them to upgrade our infrastructure to the 21st century in some cases so good luck with that. We still got shit running on Windows 7 or even Windows XP.
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We used to get by with much less. If only we could start writing more efficient software again...
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I want to get off Mr. Huang's Wild Ride.
Don't worry, it's not like this AI bubble is dependent on cheap energy prices or anything.
Sorry, you can't. However, you can look at his ever increasingly shiny leather jackets!
If you turn on DLSS5 you can clearly see his clown shoes.
Dw guys, you can all just sit at home and watch as your world is scrapped for parts. Just... Keep protesting, I'm sure your gov will start listening to you any second now. Ah it's just memory cards, why get into a stink about the ramifications of that...
You are talking about going against a cartel of oligopolies that have locked down the technology sector with the IP they control and who have cutthroat control over where the latest technology is deployed. What we at home can do is playact "It's back to the 90s!" and go back to the technology we had several decades ago, which is more viable than it sounds.
If they want to act like cartels with the greatest and latest, nothing is forcing people to use it. Unfortunately, the technological divide will still be there. Tech minimalism, go human, recycle old tech, we have a lot of crap we've disposed off over the years that would otherwise still run fine. To create competition, there needs to be the breeding grounds for it, and if that means having to do with what the lunar lander did, then do so and exercise that brain in the process too.
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I work in a photostore, and the prices for fast sd-cards are getting ridiculous. Every time I scan one in the cash register I am almost scared of telling them the price.
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At this point it's good for economy when people burn down AI datacenter.
Liberate the RAM first.
Going to take you a lot of time with a soldering iron. These are soldered HBM2 chips, not the DDR DIMMs you want. Still manufactured in the same facilities so they hold up that manufacturing capacity but can't really be repurposed.
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I can't imagine this is good for consumers.
China will come to the rescue.
Do nothing, win
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