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

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Post by jrjeksjd8d »

SoftTalker wrote: post #380
vel0city wrote: post #195

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> if you want to cancel Netflix you need to have a DVD collection You don't need a whole DVD collection to cancel Netflix, even ignoring piracy. Go to a cheaper streaming service, pick a free/ad supported one, go grab media from the library, etc. Grab a Blu-Ray from the discount bin at the store once in a while, and your collection will grow.

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.

It really depends on the movies you're watching and how you watch them. I've watched "It Follows" like 4 times in the past year to show it to different people. I would watch The Shining every year at Halloween, and It's a Wonderful Life at Christmas. On the other hand, sometimes you just want to throw on one of your comforting favorite movies in the background.

There's also a media preservation angle - you can imagine the monopoly media companies of the next decade not wanting to stream "My Own Private Idaho" or "Female Trouble".

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Post by officeplant »

SoftTalker wrote: post #398
elbear wrote: post #395

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Maybe you would, if you bought it.

No, I do own some (actually it was more in the VHS days so tapes) and I just found that I never really watched them again. So I stopped buying movies. I'm the same with books. Once I read it, I've read it. I would rarely read a novel twice. I know what's going to happen, so what's the point? Reference books are different of course.

Some of us just consume media differently I suppose. I'm a big fan of going back to re-read/re-watch a lot of my favorite media. Sometimes it's because it got a new volume/season/movie came out years later so I'll take time to re-experience the original media to get ready for it. Never really had an issue experiencing something again and having it feel fresh because its been a few years.

I will admit that re-reading books has become less of a habit the older I get because it is time consuming to get through a longer series again.

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

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Post by elbear »

SoftTalker wrote: post #398
elbear wrote: post #395

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Maybe you would, if you bought it.

No, I do own some (actually it was more in the VHS days so tapes) and I just found that I never really watched them again. So I stopped buying movies. I'm the same with books. Once I read it, I've read it. I would rarely read a novel twice. I know what's going to happen, so what's the point? Reference books are different of course.

I'm mostly the same, I don't watch movies twice. But there are exceptions. Some movies are just beautiful or I like how they make me feel, so I want to rewatch them. Groundhog Day is an example.

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Post by layla5alive »

glitchc wrote: post #260
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…

> Physical media could easily be killed off. Does my iPhone need 1TB of storage or will they shrink that and force everything through iCloud? For the mobile space, I think we are ripe for a memory inversion of sorts, where going forward a phone has 1TB or more of ram but very little non-volatile storage. The RAM would need to be fast enough to run inferences locally, whereas the storage is does the bare minimum to bo…

Storage costs less to manufacture and power than RAM. You are starting from a premise and making up a future where it's true, ignoring the realities of physics in the process.

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Post by RiverCrochet »

jrjeksjd8d wrote: post #160
muvlon wrote: post #55

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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.

Subscriptions have a "boiling frog" phenomenon where a marginal price increase isn't noticable to most people. Our payment rails are so effective many people don't even read their credit card statements, they just have vampires draining their accounts monthly. Starting with a low subscription price also has the effect of atrophying people's ability to self-serve. The alternative to a subscription is usually capital-i…

You can only boil the frog until it dies. If there isn't a true dependency relationship then at some point the industry will die.

In the 2010's, when short on money, I noticed my cable+Internet package was above $200. I took a look at things and cut the TV service, keeping the Internet.

Movies and theaters thought they were untouchable until they weren't. Games can keep increasing their subscription fees until people just stop playing them. There was a world before video games, after all.

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