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[–] 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

GPU shortage of 2018

Pandemic-related supply chain disruptions

NFT craze

And now Altman's bullshit. All I want is to tinker with computers, learning about their inner-workings, the science behind them and play games. Why do profit-driven enterprises always have ruin our hobbies? Just so we can produce slop content to make the internet more bloated than it is already? Is it the worth the water depletion and the environmental destruction?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Because hyperscalers can buy multiple orders of magnitude more of anything consumers can buy collectively. And they won't complain, and if their shit breaks they'll just buy 100,000 pallets-worth more. Consumers have reviews, thoughts, drama and will never have the margins hyperscalers can have.

    Thank anti-antitrust, Wall St for this. I'm genuinely depressed at the state of personal computing, I see a future of thin clients and renting compute as a genuinely possible future.

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