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Never thought I'd be living in a world where my tech hardware purchases INCREASE in value over the years.
Now imagine TSMC being controlled by China. While I think it's fairly low probability, the imagination does create some pretty dystopian scenarios.
I don't have to imagine what it would be like under communism in order to see what it's already like under capitalism.
Never thought I'd be living in a world where my tech hardware purchases INCREASE in value over the years.
Now imagine TSMC being controlled by China. While I think it's fairly low probability, the imagination does create some pretty dystopian scenarios.
Never thought I'd be living in a world where my tech hardware purchases INCREASE in value over the years.
Now imagine TSMC being controlled by China. While I think it's fairly low probability, the imagination does create some pretty dystopian scenarios.
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Don't forget that this is all intentional and by design. If the tech oligarchs have their way we will all have no choice but to rent compute by the token within the next 3-5 years. The era of the personal computer is over. Current supply chains & production capacity can't accomodate both the AI hyperscalers and regular consumers.
You're acting like companies like Apple would simply let "the tech oligarchs" make 20% of their revenue disappear
Never thought I'd be living in a world where my tech hardware purchases INCREASE in value over the years.
Now imagine TSMC being controlled by China. While I think it's fairly low probability, the imagination does create some pretty dystopian scenarios.
they don't price gouge on other stuff from shenzhen really do
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Well hey, at least these systems also consume massive amounts of electricity either raising your electric bill or your gas bill depending on how they decide to power the data center. Nothing like a 30% increase in your power bill because your local county commissioners got a sweet $300k campaign donation from a foreign billionaire. And of course if they burn natural gas for their power you get polluted air from your…
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>The average person does not really benefit from recent AI tech Really? Most people I know seem to have found the chatbots tremendously helpful. It's much faster than researching via a bunch of google searches.
Most people I know don't use chatbots and don't find them helpful.
I just checked amazon and I paid $350 in Nov 24' for 96GB (2x48GB) 6800MT DDR5 which at the time felt quite expensive and a bit of a splurge but I figured I had my DDR4 kit for almost a decade so probably similar lifespan for DDR5. That same listing is currently $1300!!! When RAM prices are increasing like a crypto currency we have a real societal problem.