Its always rough when you are dealing with a cartel..
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From 12:48 of the video:
Gamers Nexus: "Were you able to lock in contracts for memory with the suppliers directly or did you have to jump through a bunch of hoops or..."
Rep from Valve: "Look there's no contract, there's nothing. Those guys...they are...they give us a price every month, and they say 'you can buy that many', and it's yes or no, and if we say no then they never talk to us again".
Gamers Nexus also links another video they made specifically about the DRAM cartel.
Actual fucking cartel.
Damn the verge now just quotes GN? They may as well just link their video without writing anything, lol. They added nothing to this article.
Not that I can read much of it because of the paywall.
If you click "read mode" (im on librewolf but any firefox fork will do) you can access the whole article just fine.
Ohh that's neat!
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I hate micron so much now especially. They basically rug pull all consumers and only sell B2b now. So they can make more money on Ai datacenters.
Problem is there are only a few companies that even sell memory. And micron made it so much worse for the consumer market. I will not forgive, I will not forget.
I really hope China or someone else can step up and just flood the entire market with cheap components eventually.
They are trying. But there is a downside to everything. Once China has full function to basically replace the manufacturing of processors and memory in Taiwan they no longer have anything holding them back from bombing Taiwan into submission. And several incentives to do so to eliminate their competition.
Yes but giving up profits is not what a company does...
And you say forgive, as if they are your friend or something. Its a corporation. They don't give a fuck about you as a person.
Almost all corporations doesn't. There are exceptions. Kagi, the search engine, will give your monthly subscription money back if you didn't search during the month. How cool is that. That's someone who actually wants to provide a product users are happy with.
Is this a Kagi ad lmao
Ngl relatable, I too often mention my interests out of place.
But it's not out of context. Rather it, merely has an existence in which the distance between in-context and out-of-context disappears, and the topic exist as neither related nor unconnected. A bona fide symphrantasia if you will.
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i like your words, magic dude
It's fine in my opinion. I mention stuff I like and will keep doing that. :)
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This all so people can rot their brains out to fruit videos...
And so companies can fire the people who do the work (and hire them back later to fix the damage done by the agentic AI), too. Don't forget that part.
Hire them back at a lower pay none the less. People will and are desperate for work, so it won't be difficult.
fruit videos? is there a recent trend I missed?
Godawful AI generated soap opera featuring anthropomorphic fruits.
insert veggie tales meme about the future being AI generated
After reporting how much the Steam Machine costs, I could tell already. RAM manufacturers are in paradise right now!
There's going to be a bloodbath when the AI bubble finishes popping.
This really bums me out not cuz I was looking to buy one but because I wanted it to shake the market up and make every company do better for the consumer... I feel like this price takes them completely out of the console market and purely into the entry-level PC market where I think it still is a decent specs and price for that market. It's just not what it was made to be
is it really that more expensive? because unlike a console the steammachine doesnt require a subscription to play online. PS5+ is 150€ yearly just for that. granted, you get a game per month but the games you get are often games you wouldnt buy anyways. so with the current price of 900€ for a 2tb ps pro youll pay 900€. after 3 years the steam machine is cheaper.
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