Well, that’s just really shitty.
This really is a new front in the war on general-purpose computing for regular people. The EU or some entity big enough that’s outside of the US needs to fund new memory fabs ASAP and get this industry out of the hands of the present cartel.
it’s infuriating and honestly kind of scary. They’re making gaming a luxury hobby, one auxiliary industry at a time. Every component that goes up in price is another reason for consoles to go up in price. More and more cool hobbies are slowly growing out of reach for the average person. Soon the only thing left to fill your free time will be alcohol and the sound of silence.
More and more products that were previously targeted at what was the middle class are now targeting solely the top 10% of income earners. It’s pretty tragic, and corrosive to the long term health of society.
Phones as well. Each increase in the nand/chips makes phones and ANY consumer electronics that use it much more expensive.
It doesnt help when most devices that we buy are not designed to be repaired.
You’ll still be able to get consoles and cloud stream. The real problem is that the power to create is being taken away from regular people.
cloud stream
That literally plays into the concept of big business having a monopoly
There’s a reason I’m still rocking CS6. Fuck you for wanting me to pay monthly.
Could just use GIMP at that point.
I’m an old guy (started with Photoshop 5 – not CS5; 5), and GIMP has never felt like software trying to help me accomplish a goal. It’s the vi of image editors.
Did you try Krita?
I’ve played with it for a little bit, but at this point, I’m so far removed from print design, I gave up after kicking the tires. When my resume ceased to be able to get anywhere as a PDF’d INDD, I tucked tail and went back to Word.
I’ve never used Photoshop in my life, but use GIMP all the time. Think it has more to do with the workflow you’re accustomed to. Granted, a vi user would probably say the same thing lol.
“Why would I want to use Notepad?”
I’ve tried. SO many times. It’s just so damn clunky. I ended up using Krita (also FOSS) instead.
Like everything else in this world, we need to wait for HBM to crash or for a competitor to get massive funding for DRAM when it becomes more profitable.
Companies only exist to seek profit, and HBM is way more profitable than anything they made for consumers.
It’s possible this will precipitate a reduction in HBM costs until they come down to consumer levels, then we might end up with HBM instead of (G)DDR.
Oh, I drink lots of beer while not wanting to call attention to my rave on wheels.
Can we get a TL:DW for people that don’t want to watch a video?
I think a lot of people left out the fact that these companies have been accepting public funds for R&D and expansion, and now they’re no longer using those funds to sell consumer products, but rather dumping them into the insatiable maw that is AI.
Socialize the costs. Privatize the profits.
Better: can we get mods to ban low effort posts
Are you actually claiming that I should be providing a video summary? Like, that’s in my wheelhouse, but I’m not on the clock, so apologies that you had to click the link.
I’m saying don’t post to videos.
Posting articles with embedded videos is OK. But just pasting a god damn video link is low effort, and not welcome. It’s poor lemmyquite
I’m sorry. Are you a mod here? You’re just bitching that you didn’t get exactly what you wanted served on a platter.
But just pasting a god damn video link is low effort
imagine 4 things that could be posted:
- a 3 minute long video
- a 3 hour long video
- a 250 word article or blog post
- a 25,000 word article or blog post
do you have a sufficient grasp of how the internet works to understand that the effort involved in posting a link is exactly the same in all 4 cases?
You can always click on the transcript on YouTube if you’d prefer to read. If you then need it summarized, that’s one of the things LLMs are actually (mostly) useful for.
You made the dreadful mistake of saying something positive about LLMs. We shall now proceed to downvote you accordingly.
That’s why our instance has no downvote mechanism!
Unless the YouTuber provides the transcript themselves, they’re basically auto-generated captions that aren’t accurate. And you still gotta have YT open to read it.
So a guy reads from an outline or script into a YouTube clip we can view (after ads) with a transcript we can then summarize with an LLM so we can replicate the outline or script originally used?
The downvote and next buttons are, like, right there.
He also publishes written articles, but not for all videos, and not usually at the same time as the video.
Edit: also, there’s more to the video than reading from a script. You’d know this if you, uh, watched the video.
Not really sure where you’re coming from. If you don’t want to watch a video … like, maybe, just don’t? I was attempting to provide solutions. And “a guy reads from a script” is literally how videos are made, so that’s a weird flex.
Steve has really come into his own as EIC in the past two years, and the channel (which I used to ignore) is much better for it. Come for the stats, stay for the biting political commentary.
TL:DW;
Mr. Nexus still thinks its news that, under capitalism, production of luxury goods will always be sold to the highest bidder and not “the masses”
I didn’t watch it either. But its about Micron no longer selling consumer ram in favor of the AI industry customer.
So there’s three companies that make almost all the DRAM and they’re now all ramping down production of consumer RAM.
They’ve also done price fixing in the past.
I don’t think much math needs to be done.
I respect that Steve was able to control himself and only make a 25 minute video on this.
You can only use so many “fucks” before a video is demonetized. Running any longer would have come up against that wall.
Thanks! So literally a nothing burger.
I hate YouTube clickbait.
Well I mean the 3 DRAM manufacturers that matter all made the decision to ramp down consumer RAM manufacturing. OpenAI alone is buying up 40% of all global DRAM production.
Given all the financial fuckery going on with OpenAI and the AI and hardware industries in general, I’m pretty sure this is intentional price fixing.
So just another day in capitalist society. Nothing to write home about imo.
Just accepting how fucked things are does not advance change. Others being concerned about it benefits you, so I’m not sure what you’re complaining about.
It’s just that society has much bigger problems than the price of ram sticks.
Like the price of housing, the price of food, transportation…
I don’t find this even worth mentioning, that’s just it.
So, you’re going with the slippery slope: There are so many other problems, why worry about a new one?
I’m homeless and struggle to afford food, so I’m aware of the larger issues in play. The problem here is that we’re adding a new one atop societal decay. Handwaving each new fuckup away is how we succumb to a future without agency.
Now is the time to be shouting from the rooftops, not giving up.
Nothing in modern society works without computers, so everything will get a bit more expensive with DRAM and NAND chips multiplying in price. Hell, wages may go down at low margin businesses dependent on computing.
It’s not apocalyptic by any means, but it’s just more salt in many wounds.
For us gamers, RAM is a once every 5 or 10 years expense. If you buy it more often, you’re just wasting money most likely. Businesses may buy a lot of new computers every year, or they might use cloud compute services that will also get more expensive.
Micron took millions in tax payer dollars from the CHIPS Act to build fabs. To then turn around and shut down their consumer market is kind of fucked. That’s a little more than a nothing burger.
I love Steve and GN
I’m of the idea of not buying new tech ever again, with some exceptions on use case and rarity.
Instead, i’m a proponent of only buying 2nd hand or business surplus.
These companies don’t deserve our money, and the average use case doesn’t require the latest and greatest.
I’m of the same mind. I did make an exception for a Pixel 9a because, well, that seven years of updates starts from the day it went on sale, so shaving a few years off that for minimal savings didn’t seem ideal.
Shame they are going to send you a “battery protection update” that makes your phone last 45 minutes between charges on year three.
I’d bet against any plan that requires Google to not fuck you over for a whole 7 years.
I mean, I’m going to drop or sit on the thing in half that time. But allow a man to dream …
