You see what's happening right?

[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+.

[koakuma@uwu.social]

@the_turtle @mttaggart It gets sent into the shredder in the name of privacy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQoKFovvigI though this is a video by Google from 2013 and I dunno if they're still doing it now

[musing_sys@social.fringesec.ca]

@mttaggart That has been their stated intention, so I would not be surprised that’s where this is going. When’s that AI bubble gonna burst?

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@mttaggart @briankrebs If this is true then RIP Apple/Acer/Dell's business model

[koakuma@uwu.social]

@mttaggart I wonder what would happen if the costs get too high to bear and people ended up... opting out entirely from computing

I mean it's not like you need computers to be able to grow a couple trees for food right

[vrek@mastodon.social]

@tomcat @mttaggart back when I was a child, like in the 90s I had this idea of the future but not so orwellian. I imagined that most homes would eventually have a big powerful computer in a cliset/basement/attic and then have several like dumb terminals around that accessed that data. So like you have all the music you like on the central computer then you go in the kitchen and tell the kitchen terminal to play your favorite song.

Kinda like self-hosting but with basic input, screen, audio only

[freya@chaosfem.tw]

@ianjs @tschenkel @mttaggart I am a very lucky girl and have free power\

[mttaggart@infosec.exchange]

@koakuma @the_turtle Even if they wanted to resell, the cost of logistics for such an operation would outstrip profits.

Into the dump they'll go. We haven't even begun imagining the e-waste of this absurd misadventure.

[lunacolon3@blahaj.zone]

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange i genuinely think most tech companies would like to completely eliminate personal computers, and they have mostly succeeded. they make much more money if people buy phones that cost as much as computers and then pay a subscription for someone else to do their computing.

[lunacolon3@blahaj.zone]

@koakuma@uwu.social @mttaggart@infosec.exchange most people have already done this, now they are just pushing away the few who are left. most tech companies dont care, phones and cloud subscriptions are more profitable anyway.

[levzadov@kolektiva.social]

@Npars01 @raymierussell @galacticstone @mttaggart

Still true. Still vulnerable.