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AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention

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Post by vel0city »

elbear wrote: post #395
SoftTalker wrote: post #380

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Music is different, but I never understood buying movies. Once I see a movie, I've seen it. I very rarely watch a movie more than once.

Maybe you would, if you bought it.

I've bought a ton of movies in the past. The vast majority I've sold second hand or thrown away because I just didn't care to watch again and I didn't feel like storing something I'd never use forever.

Same goes for a lot of other media. Some amount of it I'll want to keep but most is practically disposable to me. Even most videogames.

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Post by port11 »

Bombthecat wrote: post #168
muvlon wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know how everyone arrives at that conclusion when the cost of the subscription services is also going up (as evidenced by the very article we're talking about). People who are renting are feeling this immediately, whereas people who bought their computers can wait the price hikes out for a couple years before they really need an upgrade.

Netflix says hello lol Every increasing prices Password sharing forbidden Etc etc And still making more and more money. People are willing to take a beating if they are entertained and pay a lot more

There must be a breaking point. We’ve reached ours last year, when price went up again and my grandfathered plan wasn’t accepted anymore. So I talked to the missus and we cancelled our Netflix.

It had been my account for, what, a decade? A decade of not owning anything because it was affordable and convenient. Then shows started disappearing, prices went up, we could no longer use the account at her place (when we lived separately), etc. And, sadly, I’m done with them.

I think most people will eventually reach a breaking point. My sister also cancelled, which I always assumed would never happen.

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Post by pllbnk »

xvxvx wrote: post #12

- GPU prices rising - RAM prices rising - hard drive prices rising Are we looking at a future where home computers are replaced by thin clients and all the power lies in subscription services? ‘You don't need storage space, use our cloud subscription’ ‘You don’t need processing power, stream your games through our subscription service.’ Game publishers have already publicly floated the idea of not selling their games…

That's exactly it. It's not like all these data centers are only going to teach models or perform inference. The goal is renters' economy.

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Post by bitwize »

xvxvx wrote: post #12

- GPU prices rising - RAM prices rising - hard drive prices rising Are we looking at a future where home computers are replaced by thin clients and all the power lies in subscription services? ‘You don't need storage space, use our cloud subscription’ ‘You don’t need processing power, stream your games through our subscription service.’ Game publishers have already publicly floated the idea of not selling their games…

> Are we looking at a future where home computers are replaced by thin clients and all the power lies in subscription services?

Astronaut 2: Always have been...

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Post by port11 »

cj wrote: post #68
xvxvx wrote: post #12

- GPU prices rising - RAM prices rising - hard drive prices rising Are we looking at a future where home computers are replaced by thin clients and all the power lies in subscription services? ‘You don't need storage space, use our cloud subscription’ ‘You don’t need processing power, stream your games through our subscription service.’ Game publishers have already publicly floated the idea of not selling their games…

For Christmas I got an alarm clock that basically doesn’t function without a $50/year subscription. For an alarm clock (Hatch.co). Consumers need to get better at understanding TCO when buying things. Or maybe the government should be slapping those “annual cost” stickers like they do on washing machines to understand how much electricity they use.

I’m working on an app as part of my unemployment trajectory. It was going to be a one-time purchase thing, but almost everyone on the business advisory team thinks it’s a bad idea. I’m running out of excuses/arguments as to why I think the app should not be subscription-based, seems like bad business to do so.

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Post by rishabhaiover »

emsign wrote: post #364

AI is choking everything else to death with its resource hogging.

Philip K. Dick and Frank Herbert saw the fundamental invariants of a capitalistic society much more accurately than we can, even with all of our claimed progress.

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Post by cyanydeez »

xvxvx wrote: post #12

- GPU prices rising - RAM prices rising - hard drive prices rising Are we looking at a future where home computers are replaced by thin clients and all the power lies in subscription services? ‘You don't need storage space, use our cloud subscription’ ‘You don’t need processing power, stream your games through our subscription service.’ Game publishers have already publicly floated the idea of not selling their games…

No, we're looking at a future where the bubble bursts and more people get shoved back into poverty.

None of the AI investment makes any sense.

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Post by okr »

xvxvx wrote: post #12

- GPU prices rising - RAM prices rising - hard drive prices rising Are we looking at a future where home computers are replaced by thin clients and all the power lies in subscription services? ‘You don't need storage space, use our cloud subscription’ ‘You don’t need processing power, stream your games through our subscription service.’ Game publishers have already publicly floated the idea of not selling their games…

"You won't own anything and you will love it!"

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Post by bitwize »

cj wrote: post #68
xvxvx wrote: post #12

- GPU prices rising - RAM prices rising - hard drive prices rising Are we looking at a future where home computers are replaced by thin clients and all the power lies in subscription services? ‘You don't need storage space, use our cloud subscription’ ‘You don’t need processing power, stream your games through our subscription service.’ Game publishers have already publicly floated the idea of not selling their games…

For Christmas I got an alarm clock that basically doesn’t function without a $50/year subscription. For an alarm clock (Hatch.co). Consumers need to get better at understanding TCO when buying things. Or maybe the government should be slapping those “annual cost” stickers like they do on washing machines to understand how much electricity they use.

TIL. Business model: Juicero for alarms. Great paired with your EightSleep brand cloud-enabled bed.
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