You see what's happening right?
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@tomcat @mttaggart I do too, just didn't my 10 year old imagination.
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@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.
Monopolies & too few players -- a recipe for a crash & bailout.
https://www.riskhedge.com/post/the-next-big-AI-winners-are -
You see what's happening right?
They are preventing you from accessing the means of computing, making you reliant on their services in the future they're building.
At astronomical rents.
https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/
The invisible hand of free markets. 🤣 Wait till the bubble bursts.
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@mttaggart had to go look that up! It's true none of my cd-rw's from the late 90s read anymore.
I was a fan of a King Crimson tribute band Toploader & a cd I had started mis-tracking
I emailed the management a new one was promptly sent, off the cuff I was told then back up your CDs as the lifespan even of manufactured discs was not assured!
Back to vinyl!
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@botolo86 @mttaggart ahh yes I remember now when being called BASIC was cool (well, to certain folks…) 🤓😁
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You see what's happening right?
They are preventing you from accessing the means of computing, making you reliant on their services in the future they're building.
At astronomical rents.
https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/
@mttaggart well there is always a majority of stupid people around to promote these and they are always the loudest, specially ones working in tech. But don't worry they will still tell you buy a insanely overpriced, criminally under speced mac book to access this billionaire bullshit.
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Do not attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
@lemgandi @mttaggart this sentence has given so many fucking assholes the benefit of the doubt.
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You see what's happening right?
They are preventing you from accessing the means of computing, making you reliant on their services in the future they're building.
At astronomical rents.
https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/
And you can wait for the impact when China invades Taiwan and 70% of the worldwide Microchips production falls in disarray..
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I was a fan of a King Crimson tribute band Toploader & a cd I had started mis-tracking
I emailed the management a new one was promptly sent, off the cuff I was told then back up your CDs as the lifespan even of manufactured discs was not assured!
Back to vinyl!
@PabloMartini @mttaggart yea some of my earliest ones - not even that early in the scheme of CDs - have rotted.
Yet audio tapes still play, c64 tapes still load fine.
Seems like a standard tech con!
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You see what's happening right?
They are preventing you from accessing the means of computing, making you reliant on their services in the future they're building.
At astronomical rents.
https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/
@mttaggart Sooner or later the absolute and complete control over all electronic devices by those operating gigantically expensive chip fabrication centres would start to exploit that monopoly. Much as those extracting and controlling rare and vital minerals used in devices.
Modern life is a tad precarious.
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Nah, don't be that dystopian. It'll suck for sure, however they will still want to get rid of all of the old used ones on a regular basis...
@agowa338 @mttaggart they use mostly enterprise disks that can't be used on consumer PC.
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@mttaggart I don't believe in this take, and I'm especially not a big fan of the conspiratorial language you're using to describe it. How does a large spike in demand for a monopolized industry give any indication that the goal is to move users over to cloud computing? What makes this different from the pandemic shortage, or the 2011 Japan earthquake? From my perspective, this takes away from a lot of the closer, very concrete problems AI is causing right now.
@threedollarchickenparm @mttaggart a few months ago Bezos said on an interview that in the future all workloads will be on the cloud. This doesn't prove all of them want or are planning and trying to kill personal computing without the cloud, but certainly some are.
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@agowa338 @mttaggart they use mostly enterprise disks that can't be used on consumer PC.
As in SAS? Just buy a cheap SAS controller...
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You see what's happening right?
They are preventing you from accessing the means of computing, making you reliant on their services in the future they're building.
At astronomical rents.
https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/
@mttaggart I think I heard/read of certain Sci-Fi stories where in a certain future owning some tech like "independent PCs" will be illegal and you will be arrested for that but it also will be mandatory to own a "State controlled computer terminal" where you'll be forced to report your daily "achievements" and of course everything you do will be monitored ... this sounded like Sci-Fi .. now it sounds less Sci-Fi ...
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You see what's happening right?
They are preventing you from accessing the means of computing, making you reliant on their services in the future they're building.
At astronomical rents.
https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/
@mttaggart all these trillions of AI dollars have to amortize themselves.
Sunk cost fallacy par excelence, we have to foot the bill
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You see what's happening right?
They are preventing you from accessing the means of computing, making you reliant on their services in the future they're building.
At astronomical rents.
https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/
@mttaggart Computers have been a life long special interest for me. If not familiar, look up what that means and how intense it is (Re: Autism).
I will sooner give that up than rent it!
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You see what's happening right?
They are preventing you from accessing the means of computing, making you reliant on their services in the future they're building.
At astronomical rents.
https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/
@mttaggart can the bubble please pop now? please? I'm tired of this.
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