Fuck AI

Not just AI. Many of these companies are also very entrenched in Cloud Services and have pushed cloud/subscription only models as a perpetual source of income.

By manipulating the supply chain to push up the prices of hardware, it's similar to how buying up the housing market allows incumbents to squeeze out competitors and ensure that they control how much "rent" people have to pay

Yup. I sometimes suspect the “higher electric bill” (near datacenters) is to force people to use cloud services, rather than a private cloud method.

I learned something new today!

Except those tulips were a plaything for the rich and the fallout was contained to the rich, and with AI the fallout is going to be put on everybody else.

😮

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the rich and powerful seeking immortality is nothing new.

Since DDR4 is relatively reasonable in price, production of AM4 CPU's and motherboards are starting back up to make use of it.

TBH, I'm for it. I'm still on that generation of hardware and it still works great

I built an AM5 system because I wanted to ensure that if I want to upgrade it, I won't have to buy an entirely new motherboard. Coming from Intel who change their socket every two weeks, I thought it was a great idea at the time.

The cost wasn't prohibitive, the kinks ironed out quite fast. But I don't like DDR5 RAM. Like, it's RAM, I don't notice anything spectacular about it. What I do notice, is that it takes FUCKING AGES to post!

Startup finished in 20.971s (firmware) + 4.818s (loader) + 785ms (kernel) + 4.440s (initrd) + 7.741s (userspace) = 38.757s 
graphical.target reached after 7.697s in userspace.

It's taking 21 fucking seconds to do some kind of "memory training!" It used to be over 40 seconds! For what? No noticeable difference in user experience other than it taking forever to boot.

Exactly! Just upgraded to 12 gigs of DDR3 this year. Still have my i5 750 for gaming, just had to upgrade the GPU, but even that was almost 10 years ago. And it runs all the games that are worth playing.

Ddr3 and an an fx 8350 here! Runs great considering its 13 years old

Still horrible

NAS

Decided to check the Synology RAM just for fun. I think they were quite overpriced even before.
Anyway, 16GB DDR4 Synology stick is EUR 1,409. What makes it EUR 88/GB?

Same as always, best time was last year, next best is now. Consider LTO5 tape backups.

I am quite positive that it is AI gen.

• RGB light (can be edit in)
• RAM stick contact pins look too dense to be real
• Thin CPU fan with big hub pointing down while cooler fin lay horizontal
• Weirdly large distance between CPU and RAM socket

… or is it?

Ironic? Or GenAI?