jaykrown@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agoThe reason RAM prices skyrocketed is because AI companies see normal people as competitionmessage-squaremessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1149arrow-down115
arrow-up1134arrow-down1message-squareThe reason RAM prices skyrocketed is because AI companies see normal people as competitionjaykrown@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-squareScott@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·20 hours agoAnd if scam altman wants my ram, he’s going to need to pay me $4k/gb Goes up $1k every time I mention it
minus-squarefoggy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·edit-215 hours agoHe can rent half my RAM at $10 per mb per hour. Wanna utilize 32gb of my ram? 32 GB of my ram will cost you a cool $32,768 per hour. Edit: sorry the grace period has ended and enshittification has begun. It’s now $15 per mb of ddr4 and $30 per mb of ddr5 (but it’s faster!)
minus-squarePineRune@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·19 hours agoWhy use a linear increase when you could use an exponential increase?
minus-squareScott@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·17 hours agoYou know what, fair enough, I didn’t think big enough 1000^(# of times mentioned) Which makes the current price $1000000000000/gb
And if scam altman wants my ram, he’s going to need to pay me $4k/gb
Goes up $1k every time I mention it
He can rent half my RAM at $10 per mb per hour.
Wanna utilize 32gb of my ram?
32 GB of my ram will cost you a cool $32,768 per hour.
Edit: sorry the grace period has ended and enshittification has begun. It’s now $15 per mb of ddr4 and $30 per mb of ddr5 (but it’s faster!)
Why use a linear increase when you could use an exponential increase?
I like logarithmic increases.
You know what, fair enough, I didn’t think big enough
1000^(# of times mentioned)
Which makes the current price $1000000000000/gb