Technology

"everything you care about" - Time to change hobbies and care about things that don't have RAM then.

The supply chain for computing resources is extremely bottlenecked right now. Even with the high demand for open weight AI models the data centers hosting them aren't able to get the computing resources they need and they keep running into rate limits even for paid users. Z.ai's hosting quality has dropped which I suspect may be related. Even over the past few weeks this has gotten much worse with the release of Kimi K2.5 being competitive with closed US-based models and OpenCode becoming popular. Meanwhile we have corporations like OpenAI buying up half the world's RAM fucking both other people and other corporations. So I'm not sure where this is going to end up, but the computer hardware market is going to really suck for a while.

I would LOVE to believe this will force automakers to return to using buttons instead of touchscreen.

Yeah, I know. But I'd sure love to believe it.

I wish Sam Altman to encounter difficulties every time he had to use bathroom and increased chance of his phone fell to the toilet all the time.

Does this mean no smart fridges?

Coz that would be cool

That’s fine, I’m over here eating popcorn, watching all the drama…..

Luckily I’m not likely to need any laptop, phone, tablet. game console, car, tv, etc any time soon. All my higher end devices are good for a few years until the bubble bursts.

That being said, my hobbies tend to be in low end devices. We know raspberry pi’s are now expensive and likely to get worse, but I wonder how it will effect the tiny bit of old technology memory in things like “smart switches” and sensors

I'm so glad I bought this book years ago

I was saving it for a retirement hobby project but looks like I will have to open it sooner than I thought.

Frustratingly this is not just affecting the current generation of devices, but the previous one too. DDR4 RAM (which I use in my desktop) has gone up 300% since I bought it a few years ago.

Here's hoping that nobody needs to replace current or previous gen hardware if it breaks in the next 2 years...

I think sir misunderstands how malleable my hobbies and interests are and completely fails to see where my priorities are. You can't eat RAM and it will never love you back. It's almost irrelevant even when it's not supply crunch'd.

Don’t be fooled: if RAM had the chance it would kill everyone and everything you’ve ever loved.

I find myself at a point where I don't actually want any new computing devices, partly because of this, and partly because, well, what I have works fine for me.

I have an M2 MacBook Air that is still as solid as the day I got it (Sequoia for life) for the majority of my personal needs, plus a 2014 Mac mini running Mint as my home server, an M1 Mac Mini my dad gave me that runs my Home Assistant, and an old(er) PC that has a GTX 1060 GPU that's capable of playing most of the games I care to play. My phone is a Pixel 9 running Graphene which is a year old and nowhere needing a replacement, and I have an iPad mini that I barely use these days anyway.

I guess I'm lucky enough that my shit is new enough that it's still usable, and my use-case is light enough on resources that the older gear still works perfectly well for what I need.

My wife, however, needs a new PC...

Fuck Sam Altman

On the bright side it's being used to artificially prop up a technology that nobody actually needs or even really wants

First the rich took our data. Then ownership, privacy, money, rights, now RAM. next will be our organs.