You see what's happening right?

[tschenkel@mathstodon.xyz]

@mttaggart

I regret having delayed upgrading my old 4x2TB NAS array, because I didn't want to spend that much money on HDDs. Seems like everywhere is limited to 2 drives per account where I am.

May need to get a hotswap enclosure and pick out all my old 0.5TB drives for less frequently used stuff.

[bloc@infosec.exchange]

@mttaggart I hope this will help break the mental cycle that mandates the necessity of having to buy new stuff regularly instead of using what's already there up to its actual lifetime. That way, this would in the long term hurt companies who's business model relies on creating artificial demand instead of providing actually necessary products and services.

[freya@chaosfem.tw]

@tschenkel @mttaggart I am suddenly very, very lucky to have 85TB of spinning rust

[mttaggart@infosec.exchange]

@freya @tschenkel I gently submit you were already lucky to have all that!

[freya@chaosfem.tw]

@mttaggart @tschenkel I mean yes, I misworded that, I meant I suddenly feel very lucky, not discounting the fact that I already was, I just hadn't internalised it

[tschenkel@mathstodon.xyz]

@mttaggart @freya

Indeed. I feel like we are the avantgarde with cobbled together IT. Feels like a Gibson novel, and unlike the tech-bros I did not read those scenarios as aspirational.

I just wanted to retire my beowulf cluster (12 old HP Z210 to 240 workstations and a few switches) because the gen7 i7s got a bit long in the tooth. But I may go and update that for a few more years and try to ride out the AI bubble.

[freya@chaosfem.tw]

@tschenkel @mttaggart oooo pretty machines. I'm on Dell R720 and a T340 all running FreeBSD and Solaris

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@mttaggart I am so sick of these fucks.

[raymierussell@mastodon.scot]

@galacticstone @mttaggart
Yeah, all those TV cash-for-gold adverts are gonna get dislodged by cash-for-RAM and cash-for-hdd's/sdd's

[botolo86@mstdn.social]

@mttaggart I still have my Commodore 64. They will never trap me. 10 PRINT “C64 RULEZ” ; 20 GOTO 10 ; RUN #c64

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@mttaggart argggghhh

[chillybot@infosec.exchange]

@mttaggart
Wooo compute gouging 😑

[lemgandi@mastodon.social]

@mttaggart

Do not attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.

[mttaggart@infosec.exchange]

@lemgandi This is actually malice! It's rapacious greed, the purest evil!

[lemgandi@mastodon.social]

@mttaggart Why not Both?

[mttaggart@infosec.exchange]

@lemgandi Then what's the point you're trying to make?

[csolisr@hub.azkware.net]

Guess I'll have to be extra careful of my SSDs, chances are they might be the last ones I'll be able to own for the rest of the decade.

[jerry@infosec.exchange]

@mttaggart cf express and dram prices are already skyrocketing. Hitting the photographers hard.

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@raymierussell @galacticstone @mttaggart

The people funding the AI bubble are creating a profitable point of Chokepoint Capitalism.

Chips, memory, hard drives -- once placed in artificially short supply, ...

... when the AI Bubble bursts, they can hold the non-AI economy as hostage until they get their government bailout.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebanker/2023/02/17/the-worlds-most-vulnerable-supply-chain-impacts-all-supply-chains/

Monopolies & too few players -- a recipe for a crash & bailout.
https://www.riskhedge.com/post/the-next-big-AI-winners-are

[gbargoud@masto.nyc]

@tschenkel @mttaggart

I have a bunch of mismatched drives using btrfs to build a single raid partition across them all as my desktop's big storage hoard