When do we start boycotting any companies that behave like this? We need a fucking class-action lawsuit against this behavior.
Even if you boycott WD, the AI companies are spending 18x more than the entire consumer market.
This is where any sensible country would call for antitrust.
The externalities and consequences from this are going to fuck up the world economy, hard.
WD? They are already not planning to sell to us.
I guess AI companies? I’m already not buying anything from them. They also supposedly operate at a loss. I guess all the AI tech bros pay them, but they aren’t easy to persuade otherwise.
Never, because the entire tech sector is a cartel and nobody else produces this tech at this capacity and capability. You basically have to completely swear off of electronics and the Internet entirely.
At this point it’d be all of them, but unless you’re running a data center buying drives by the hundreds or thousands there’s not a lot of impact you can make.
What does a boycott achieve, exactly? What are you suing them for, exactly?
Big tech is gradually seizing all means of computation. Fuck that.
I’m not sure buying all the RAM, SSD and HDD capacity for years is gradual.
But I do agree it’s a problem.
They are rehashing Rockefeller’s method. Rockefeller got ahead in oil by making it impossible for his competitors to do business. He would buy all the available drilling equipment and oil barrels even if he used only a fraction of them. Basically denying his competitors the ability to properly drill or store oil for processing and sale.
Western Digital just gets added to the list of companies that won’t get a penny from me. When they inevitably try and come back begging for sales from the consumer market.
There won’t be any companies left.
HDs are too slow for AI itself, so I can only assume that this is an indication of just how much data those AI services are farming from people.
This gonna go with all of the unused nvidia cards in the corner until they can find enough electricity?
They’re going to innovate so hard with that extra security and all their inventory already sold, right?? 2x production next year, amazing new features?
Hah… Haha… Hah… Ha… sigh
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I was there, Aragon… three thousand years ago…
I used to be saving a lot of money. But with this shit I need to buy another 8tb HDD while I still can.
