You see what's happening right?

[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

[rufflandings@infosec.exchange]

@mttaggart I look forward to an upcoming glut of YouTube content discussing home tape library robots.

[longplay_games@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@tinmouth @mttaggart All of my car mixes on CDR still work, so fingers crossed.

[longplay_games@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@galacticstone @mttaggart Same, I have a stack of older machines that mostly got new drives in the last year and got maxed out RAM.

I did it because of tariffs, but it works for this too.

[the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org]

@mttaggart whaddya suppose they're gonna do when all those drives get old in a few years? Dump them in the ocean? Nope, they will go in big crates and get wrapped in saran wrap and sold in lots of 1000, to guys in industrial suburbs who will uncrate and sell them for thirty bucks each.

"Not good enough for AI, but good enough for you!"

The moment Samsung or Hitachi start selling 10-petabyte drives,all those little terabyte SSDs will suddenly be worth fuckshit except to normal users.

[the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org]

@mttaggart i remember the days when guys would hand-edit the bad block tables on Seagate ST-225s and sell them for $100 because new ones were still $300 and nobody could afford ST-4096s. A whole cottage industry sprang up around keeping 225s around. A whole 20 meg 40 years ago. 20 meg was actually large enough for Windows 1.02 or Digital Research GEM or just fuckin' DOS and Multimate or WordStar.

[nieuemma@mastodon.de]

@mttaggart I very much wish I had purchased a 4TB NVME drive when they were 230 USD, now that the one I wanted is 700+.

I also wish I had ordered my laptop with 32GB, instead of 16GB DDR5, when it was an 80 USD upgrade, rather than now costing 300+.