• yardratianSoma@lemmy.caEnglish
      12 hours

      it’s almost like there should be dedicated modules for each purpose, rather than the GPU being the one-stop-shop for high-demand computing.

      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12 hours

        I don’t understand. The GPU was created as a dedicated module. It just happened that the parallel tasks needed for rendering games could be used first for crypto and later LLM’s.

        The problem is factory capacity. It doesn’t matter how you divide up the components based on purpose if one company prepays all factories to only make components for themselves.

        • altphoto@lemmy.todayEnglish
          6 hours

          Specialized AI chips are coming… AIUs lol or SIUs (is you’re stupid as F)

  • gastroglizzy@piefed.socialEnglish
    14 hours

    Lmao calling it a “crisis” like it’s some natural phenomenon and not just ten assholes hoarding everything.

  • yardratianSoma@lemmy.caEnglish
    12 hours

    $200 for 8TB back in 2022

    $545 for the same damn drive now.

    I’m actually glad I went a little crazy buying storage back then, sitting on 40TB locally, but I recoil at the thought of replacing any of them.

    • steelplatedmech@piefed.caEnglish
      6 hours

      I went crazy buying storage and other products before the US president took office because of tariff threats.

      There was a short period when AI led to minimum ram offerings increasing like the MacMini going from 8 gigs to 16 gigs. That was shortlived as AI vacuumed up all the ram and storage.

    • valkyre09@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 hours

      Friend of mine has an ssd fail. Amazon refused to replace and instead gave him a a refund. He only got half of what it now costs back. Insane.

      • qaeta@lemmy.caEnglish
        7 hours

        That itself should be fucking illegal tbh.

    • ltxrtquq@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10 hours

      I’m pretty sure $15/TB for HDDs was considered the standard not too many years ago

      Edit: the last time I bought an HDD (2023) it was 20 TB for $280, so $14/TB.

      • NekoKoneko@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4 hours

        Before the world firmly settled in the bad place, deals multiple times a year put shuckable external drives at $10/TB. I have a few left and am just hoping I don’t run out before Pop+2 years, which is probably how long it’ll take to make drives anywhere near affordable.

    • Ertain@feddit.onlineEnglish
      11 hours

      I sort of know the feeling. I got some good memory and storage a few years ago.

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
    14 hours

    I looked at HDD prices last week for the first time in a few months. It legitimately fucked up my mental state for a few hours. They were charging the same for 2tb that I paid for 8 last time I bought them.

    • altphoto@lemmy.todayEnglish
      5 hours

      Its an incentive for me to only take good photos and delete photos I don’t like.

  • DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.caEnglish
    12 hours

    Who ever would have seen that coming? It’s almost like the poor decisions of dickheads made an important commodity prohibitively expensive.

    • j5y7@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6 hours

      These aren’t mistakes. They want to sell you shitty tablets and stream your computer to you for a monthly subscription. That’s the endgame.

  • Damage@slrpnk.netEnglish
    13 hours

    Thing is, I’d like to never buy memory from these three asshole companies ever again, but right now it looks like that’s an impossible proposition.

  • DeadEndLink@lemmy.caEnglish
    13 hours

    Imagine just throwing away your consumers like their trash.

    What a business model…

  • Z745812939054@lemmy.zipEnglish
    16 hours

    AI won’t just kill you-- it’ll make sure you’re broke for a while first

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
    14 hours

    Off topic as it is not gaming related:

    I figured this was coming so I bought four System76 Meerkats with AMD processors, 4TB nvmes and 96GB of RAM. Each actively runs six to seven Win 11 VMs on ProxmoxVE, with many more on standby (each VM takes 128gb of disk space). Each VM runs large chunks of the client workloads that caused us to have to constantly upgrade our laptops. Now, by offloading the majority of the workload to these self-hosted virtual desktops (VDIs), we can extended the life of our “daily drivers” by years. My main PC is a 2019 Thinkpad andnat this rate, I might easily get another five years out of it (barring hardware failure). When we do need to replace, we no longer have to buy laptops with top tier specs.

  • Schwim Dandy@piefed.zipEnglish
    16 hours

    I’ve got to say I do enjoy reading about the billionaire overlords eating their own in their pursuit to find profitability.

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15 hours

    Off topic, but about the article: Are the articles getting shorter and shorter? The rest of the page has more content than the entire article body. I’ve seen some longer Lemmy replies. :D

    • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
      12 hours

      I, for one, am happy to see an article where they simply get to the point and don’t unnecessarily fluff the word count.

      • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
        12 hours

        I just wish the posts were not bloated otherwise too. Edit: But fair enough and good point. At least its to the point, which is definitely a plus point.

  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    15 hours

    A lot of the DIY PC market is already under pressure. I worry that this will further strain the component makers (like cases and power supplies and such) and builders.

  • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
    14 hours

    Hmm. The Ars Technica article from earlier wasn’t willing to lay the blame so wholly on memory prices. I wonder why this publication is.