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I ‘panic bought’ (OK, not out of panic, but mild concern) a 22TB drive since the price seemed not too astronomical, and the local store had a few left. Just in case.
Seems the supplies really are drying up. Fuck these AI companies. Doesn’t matter if they actually intended to wage a war on personal computation; their hoarding of the supply chain for years to come really is an assault on our ability to afford local self-hosted computing. I hope the bubble bursts, soon and hard.
Doesn’t matter if they actually intended to wage a war on personal computation
I think they are intentionally waging war on personal hardware. They want everything cloud based so they have direct access and ownership of all user activity. Their wet dream is everyone’s computer being a streaming stick plugged into a monitor.
I’m so old, i even remember when computers got faster over time.
20 years ago or so, I was at a computer parts store, pricing up parts to build a computer. I was on a limited budget and had already decided on a CPU, graphics card, and a motherboard.
“Ah, crap, I forgot about RAM”, I said. “No problem”, the shopkeeper replied, “RAM is cheap”
I don’t remember what the CPU I got was, but the GPU was an Nvidia GeForce 6600GT.
“Ah, crap, I forgot about RAM”, I said. “No problem”, the shopkeeper replied, “RAM is cheap”
That was also the mindset in programming up to very recently. Memory is cheap and plentiful, so you didn’t need to worry too much for all but the most conservative of memory management.
Strange to think that with how computers are today, we’re looping back around to resource-limited compute, not because of software bloat or anything, but that people won’t be able to afford to change their computers out for something more powerful.
