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Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse (www.pcworld.com)
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  • Nvidia and Micron are making emotional appeals to consumers while PC users express frustration with big AI companies’ practices and self-serving motives.
  • Memory vendors predict DRAM and SSD shortages lasting until mid-2027, while new tariffs on advanced computing chips and potential Steam Machine pricing over $1,000 add to consumer concerns.
  • The article highlights how corporations use emotional messaging to mask financial interests, advising consumers to remain skeptical of such appeals.
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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

IMHO there's much hobbiness and fun to be had with creating a second or third life for "outdated" hardware. The current RAM crisis leaves me cool, on a 2014 ThinkPad. My kitchen server was a 2008 HP laptop.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What's funny is that ding this makes it kinda obvious how incremental a lot if improvements really were. Like on paper DDR5 is MUCH better than DDR3, but somehow my old gaming machine is only a little slower than a new system playing shit that I actually run.

[–] amorpheus@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Software has also gone to shit performance wise, few things really get optimized anymore and there's frameworks and containers behind everything.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

For sure. Buying higher performance machines didn't get us better performing games, it just got us lazy developers.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What does a kitchen server do?

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Serves kitchens

[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Your kitchen, sir"

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Our special today, is silverfish and granite, served with a side of wood chips, garnished with table salt."

[–] unphazed@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Discworld?

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

?

[–] unphazed@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just sounds like a quote from Discworld. Trolls eat rocks.

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Ah, never heard of it tbh, that bad humour came straight from my head.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 4 points 2 days ago

🤔 ah, I suppose that makes sense

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago

I used to have a static IP at home so I cold run my own physical server. I stuck it under the fridge because there were wall plugs and I didn't want it in my living room. Hence the name.

It used to serve NFS shares locally, websites and CalDAV/CardDAV globally. A dual-core-but-32-bit stone old intel processor, 2GB of RAM, and never a performance problem.