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Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI

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Re: Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI

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Post by nickpp »

palmotea wrote: post #28

Maybe with AI we can finally kill user-owned computing, and make almost everyone renters. It's really wrong that the common people have access to things like PCs. It leaves a lot of money on the table the corporations can extract, and makes control much harder. PCs should cost at least as much as a car, so only the right people can afford them. Own nothing and be happy.

PCs are also made by corporations, together with PC parts. The reason computing became so cheap during the last 50 years was competition between said corporations. Competition that is also pushing the AI token price down and also encouraging - corporations - to come up with models that can run on user hardware.

So what are you ranting against?!

> Own nothing and be happy.

Ah, here it is. Only governments can confiscate our property and force us into that. Governments and politicians that keep telling us how evil corporations are…

Re: Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI

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Post by giraffe_lady »

cryo32 wrote: post #49
palmotea wrote: post #28

Maybe with AI we can finally kill user-owned computing, and make almost everyone renters. It's really wrong that the common people have access to things like PCs. It leaves a lot of money on the table the corporations can extract, and makes control much harder. PCs should cost at least as much as a car, so only the right people can afford them. Own nothing and be happy.

Sarcasm aside, yep. There will be three classes: the owned, the owners and the unownable. I aim to be unownable.

It will be the same two classes there are now and always have been. Those who need to sell their labor and those they sell it to. Class struggle is the only way out. Find some solidarity, you aren't exempt.

Re: Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI

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Post by e2le »

palmotea wrote: post #28

Maybe with AI we can finally kill user-owned computing, and make almost everyone renters. It's really wrong that the common people have access to things like PCs. It leaves a lot of money on the table the corporations can extract, and makes control much harder. PCs should cost at least as much as a car, so only the right people can afford them. Own nothing and be happy.

It's unfortunate but personal general-purpose computing has being under attack for a long time, this is only another nail in the coffin.

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Post by yubblegum »

therepanic wrote: post #50
cryo32 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sarcasm aside, yep. There will be three classes: the owned, the owners and the unownable. I aim to be unownable.

There will be two classes: those who are part of the perpetual underclass and those who are not. And 98 percent of the population will be part of it.

> There will be two classes

That confident "will" in that prognosis may ultimately stimulate a consensus "why?" response in the population to explore alternative outcomes ..

Re: Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI

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Post by Helmut10001 »

Kirby64 wrote: post #2

Not just motherboards. Cases, PC accessories (fans, etc), consumer SSDs, and more. Cases are especially hard hit, apparently, as they're already quite a low margin business. Personally, I see little reason to upgrade from my AM4 platform. It's never been easier to hold on to aging hardware with the advent of DLSS stretching older cards further, diminishing returns on the newer gen GPUs, and the 'realism' of video gam…

I invested quite a bit in enterprises level homelab equipment 2020 to 2025 (about 10k). Happy I made it before the big bang. Eg. my SAS he8 drives will last at least till 2035. But what then? I want my children to be free, too.

Re: Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI

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Post by badc0ffee »

cryo32 wrote: post #49
palmotea wrote: post #28

Maybe with AI we can finally kill user-owned computing, and make almost everyone renters. It's really wrong that the common people have access to things like PCs. It leaves a lot of money on the table the corporations can extract, and makes control much harder. PCs should cost at least as much as a car, so only the right people can afford them. Own nothing and be happy.

Sarcasm aside, yep. There will be three classes: the owned, the owners and the unownable. I aim to be unownable.

Sounds like my kid's friends talking about betas, alphas and sigmas. I think they aim to be sigmas.

Re: Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI

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Post by [deleted] »

palmotea wrote: post #28

Maybe with AI we can finally kill user-owned computing, and make almost everyone renters. It's really wrong that the common people have access to things like PCs. It leaves a lot of money on the table the corporations can extract, and makes control much harder. PCs should cost at least as much as a car, so only the right people can afford them. Own nothing and be happy.

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