Overproduction

[iagondiscord@wetdry.world]

@davidrevoy it's my genuine belief that what's going on with the computing industry amounts to fraud

[trittriton@shelter.moe]

@davidrevoy “All of them are already sold. Plus, all of the future stones scheduled for the next years are currently sold out, too.”

[yuki2501@masto.hackers.town]

@davidrevoy @bit What a coincidence. Around 2 months ago I stumbled upon a RAM error that randomly crashed my Firefox tabs and videogames.

I had to do a lot of research to find out how I could mask away that defective RAM.

[shaknais@mastodon.social]

@iagondiscord @davidrevoy

How is buying up an entire supply, not triggering an anti-compete...?

[yuki2501@masto.hackers.town]

@davidrevoy Me: finally, a new comic NOT about AI! 😃

Two panels later: Dammit! 😖

😅 It's fine, tho, keep up the good work!

[uplategeek@bitbang.social]

@nini @rgbunny @davidrevoy exactly. RAM, GPUs, SSDs, HDDs, they’re all available, they just jacked up the prices in anticipation of a shortage that may never eventuate. That means fewer people are buying them, so they’ll end up with a glut of hardware once the bubble bursts, and a market that’s used to holding onto their old hardware or finding a second hand deal instead of buying new.

[dragonfly@sunny.garden]

@davidrevoy I love this so much thank you!

[dgouttegattat@social.incenp.org]

@davidrevoy Well, if a magic stone used to be worth 40! gold coins, at 600 gold coins they are now much cheaper…

(Sorry! I’ll see myself out. 😅)

[drgroftehauge@sigmoid.social]

@davidrevoy Heh, this was chat today talking about hard drives. What do you mean Western Digital has sold all their SSDs for 2026? How is that a sentence?

[davidrevoy@framapiaf.org]

@bearmine 😆 True.

− 👩 "...and how much for a AI Parrot?"
− 👴 "Oh, take it, and take these 100 gold coins too. That's the AI industry paying you to inflate their total number of users. They desperately need a growth curve to keep investors on board."

[davidrevoy@framapiaf.org]

@dgouttegattat 😆

[davidrevoy@framapiaf.org]

@ooignignoktoo @mangeurdenuage Et oui, tout est misé sur le "Too big to fail" et sous-tirer de l'argent publique pour perfuser cette industrie qui ferait trop mal si elle s'écroulerait...

[doraii@furry.engineer]

@drgroftehauge @davidrevoy I... thought it only hit the RAM... WHAT!?

[davidrevoy@framapiaf.org]

Not sure if I'll include this new Krita brush I created specifically for this episode in my upcoming brush pack, but it's fun to play with 😅🖌️🦜🦜🦜

While I'm here, check out the timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/making-of/040.mp4 This time, I took a more traditional approach: sketch, inking, painting the background, and then characters. Along the way, I think I found a good preset for inking.

[topazrabbit@oldbytes.space]

@davidrevoy hahaha so good

[drgroftehauge@sigmoid.social]

@doraii @davidrevoy Nah, SSDs are about twice as expensive as they were 3 months ago.
GPUs... well.

[kaitou@techhub.social]

@davidrevoy
Probably shouldn't include it; that brush is strictly for the birds.

s;ns

[doraii@furry.engineer]

@drgroftehauge @davidrevoy Just checked my nigh 5 years old budget laptop (i3, 8GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, 720p screen) and HOLY SHIT, it's $330 to buy a used one!

[rupert@mastodon.nz]

@raymaccarthy @davidrevoy That kind of job (production planning) really hasn't existed since the MBA was invented.

[huguesross@mastodon.art]

@davidrevoy Finally, the perfect tool for making AI (Avian Intelligence) Art!

It's even a nice red for making one of them No AI 🚫 signs if people still make 'em