• mseven@piefed.ca
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    10 days ago

    As much as I dislike China, I’m hoping they can do to RAM what they’ve done to things like solar panels and EVs.

    Just flood the market. Make RAM cheap again!

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        10 days ago

        I’d quite like it if build quality were better than that for which China has become a byname tho’. I like my shit to last at least a decade

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          10 days ago

          Fair point. I will say this, the low quality of Chinese goods isn’t entirely their fault. They enable it but it also comes from higher up.

          I knew someone that was building some device, I forget was it was, and they were in China sourcing parts. That is when you see the game and they know exactly what is going on. You are after a specific capacitor, they will bring out 10 of the same product ranked in terms of price and quality. The 5 cent part, that will last 5 years or 1,000 hours, the 50 cent part will last 30 years or 10,000 hours.

          Most producers will just go for the cheapest parts available to get the prices at the end down or to increase profit margins. China can make brilliant high quality parts, just those that control the pricing will always go for the low end and then blame it on Chinese manufacturing.

          But also, many Chinese manufactures offer these parts knowing this, so it goes both ways.

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      10 days ago

      If you think chinese memory will be cheaper than 5-10%, i have a bridge to sell you. They have no reason to sell it for really cheap, except maybe to gigacorps like Apple, but thats a different discussion (long term, strategic, guaranteed demand).

  • ivan@piefed.social
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    11 days ago

    Yeah, fuck off Sammy. I was playing with Markov chains on my Core 2 Duo PC before OpenAI was even a thing, it’s my God given right to keep stochastic parrots at home, and weird cryptofascists won’t take it off me!

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      10 days ago

      This data center build out can’t last forever, they are so overextended, obviously the government will bail them out afterwards, or either and or both parties. But that should at least halt these build outs for the most part, and lower computer costs, (although the manufacturers are likely geared to llm specific equipment and would have to retool, and the market can remain irrational longer than we (me, myself, and I,) can remain sane, apparently.)

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    10 days ago

    Having a centralised and planned RAM economy seems a bit communist, TBF. It’s just the small detail about it all being to the benefit of one man that’s bothersome.

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    10 days ago

    Man, i was actually considering getting some ram cause both my server and desktop still “only” have 16 gigs each. I figured DDR4 wouldn’t be that bad but i just checked and jesus christ that shit’s expensive lol. Guess i’m good with 16 gigs for now

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    11 days ago

    Found the RAM-o-sexual. You just want to build one of those “assault computers”. The only thing they’re good for is CHILD PORN which means you LIKE children being raped!

    You just sit around in your house all day daydreaming about the day someone tries to hack your network and you get to defend it, don’t you, you sick bastard!

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    10 days ago

    Notice how he isn’t saying just that he needs more, just that he wants us to have less. This isn’t a message for us, it’s a plea for the ram manufacturers to further squeeze the supply and reinforce their monopoly for the cloud of the future where you just rent computing from them. I don’t think so buddy, fuck off

  • TootTootComingThru@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    They will. Not directly but by manipulating the market and what will you so then? What the fuck are you actually gonna do about it? I bet you don’t even own a blunderbus.