The endless promotion of AI by virtually all tech company CEOs and shareholders, to me, is the most definitive proof that the rich would rather burn it all down than give any compensation, respect and decency to the working class.

Good luck, with Hormuz closed most of Asia's LNG shipments are blocked (which TSMC relies heavily on), plus other crucial chemicals for the chip making process like helium

I've been listening for this inevitable crash for some time now, but nothing yet. Crossing fingers. Eventually we will all need CPUs, disks, RAM etc.

Could happen tomorrow, could happen in a year or two. Stay tuned for more updates on the ongoing shit show.

I'm skeptical about Sora getting killed. I think it's very plausible that they just privated their model for internal use by the US gov. Sure, it's one less power hungry AI video generator, but there are multiple of those available already, I don't think it's the win most people think it is.

I'll switch to legacy systems before I pay for a subscription service.

This assumes really good internet infrastructure and still requires some sort of terminal at the user end. Of course, Bezos is a billionaire and so might be dumb enough to believe it himself.

There are more barriers to digital sovereignty every day.

My wife hit the 15GB Google limit last week. Holy shit.

Her phone storage was full, so:

• Photos were silently removed from the device and uploaded to Google Photos.
• Once it was full, it locked her out of Google services. It even locked her email and took forms offline.
• It then demanded payment to get access to her files.

Google Photos is ransomware by definition.

I ended up doing a takeout, and found that all the photos had the exif tags stripped and I had to re-merge them from a .json file that sat next to it. Otherwise they had no timestamp/location data and no other software would index it.

Fixing the mess required me to alter my photo import program (written in C) and use some scripts I found on github. It was a full weekend project.

I can see why a lot of people will just pay the ransom.

Big tech is making wayyyy to much money selling artificially inflated parts and pieces, Some people may buy into a second generation Web TV but gamers and builders won't. ( I know - I was there 3000 years ago when net nanny's were buying Web TV and I was selling Packard Bells with 4MB RAM).

I think this might fail for the same reason VPN companies began wildly profiting recently.

Porn.

Just have a few organizations say "Want everyone at Amazon/Microslop to know your fetishes and what porn you search for? Buy (thin client offered) now!"

Intel and AMD aren't claiming shortages. They are switching what they are manufacturing. Companies downstream of them in the consumer space are reporting shortages.

I have 96GB of ECC DDR3 laying around with nothing to put it in. I should find some low-power hardware that will take it.

I started building my first server last year, I only need two more 8TB drives to complete my raid ambition

Indie games are better anyway and don't need much hardware power :)

I find myself playing more and more graphically simple games, like schedule 1, crosscode, jackbox, etc. . . And there are many others. I was worried that my pc would be too weak for gaming, but man, there are so many fun games that dont need photorealistic graphics to run. Even NFS 2015 looks great, and isnt hard to run.

And the oil and energy shortage now thanks to trump’s war.