I seriously doubt the can confortably control that bias.
It’s the memory crisis AND the massive fucking layoffs in the tech sector who actually buy fucktons of pc’s/
“Is it”?
Proofreading is dead.
should have used AI… tsk tsk
/s
What a mistake-a to make-a. :(
A-Mario, is that-a you?!
it’s almost like there should be dedicated modules for each purpose, rather than the GPU being the one-stop-shop for high-demand computing.
Lmao calling it a “crisis” like it’s some natural phenomenon and not just ten assholes hoarding everything.
$200 for 8TB back in 2022
$545 for the same damn drive now.
I’m actually glad I went a little crazy buying storage back then, sitting on 40TB locally, but I recoil at the thought of replacing any of them.
I went crazy buying storage and other products before the US president took office because of tariff threats.
There was a short period when AI led to minimum ram offerings increasing like the MacMini going from 8 gigs to 16 gigs. That was shortlived as AI vacuumed up all the ram and storage.
I’m pretty sure $15/TB for HDDs was considered the standard not too many years ago
Edit: the last time I bought an HDD (2023) it was 20 TB for $280, so $14/TB.
I sort of know the feeling. I got some good memory and storage a few years ago.
I looked at HDD prices last week for the first time in a few months. It legitimately fucked up my mental state for a few hours. They were charging the same for 2tb that I paid for 8 last time I bought them.
Its an incentive for me to only take good photos and delete photos I don’t like.
AI won’t just kill you-- it’ll make sure you’re broke for a while first
Thing is, I’d like to never buy memory from these three asshole companies ever again, but right now it looks like that’s an impossible proposition.
Imagine just throwing away your consumers like their trash.
What a business model…
Who ever would have seen that coming? It’s almost like the poor decisions of dickheads made an important commodity prohibitively expensive.
These aren’t mistakes. They want to sell you shitty tablets and stream your computer to you for a monthly subscription. That’s the endgame.
I was referring to the mistake of the heavy investment into ‘AI’.
It isn’t a mistake; it’s the excuse to consolidate and take the monopoly on compute power.
Oh, I know it’s on purpose, but doing something stupid without it being an accident doesn’t make it not a mistake for everyone else involved.
I’ve got to say I do enjoy reading about the billionaire overlords eating their own in their pursuit to find profitability.
eventually there will be infighting.
infighting or… tenderizing
Not due to “Windows 11” forcing users to buy new hardware if they want to continue their windows experience? I think a lot of the old “Windows 10” computers are now Linux machines. But you’re saying it’s because the tech bros billionaires are artificially creating demand for RAM? Okay then.
Off topic as it is not gaming related:
I figured this was coming so I bought four System76 Meerkats with AMD processors, 4TB nvmes and 96GB of RAM. Each actively runs six to seven Win 11 VMs on ProxmoxVE, with many more on standby (each VM takes 128gb of disk space). Each VM runs large chunks of the client workloads that caused us to have to constantly upgrade our laptops. Now, by offloading the majority of the workload to these self-hosted virtual desktops (VDIs), we can extended the life of our “daily drivers” by years. My main PC is a 2019 Thinkpad andnat this rate, I might easily get another five years out of it (barring hardware failure). When we do need to replace, we no longer have to buy laptops with top tier specs.
Nice
A lot of the DIY PC market is already under pressure. I worry that this will further strain the component makers (like cases and power supplies and such) and builders.
Off topic, but about the article: Are the articles getting shorter and shorter? The rest of the page has more content than the entire article body. I’ve seen some longer Lemmy replies. :D
I, for one, am happy to see an article where they simply get to the point and don’t unnecessarily fluff the word count.
I just wish the posts were not bloated otherwise too. Edit: But fair enough and good point. At least its to the point, which is definitely a plus point.
Year over year. Okay
Last quarter… What
Q3 2026 sales were 20% lower than Q3 2025 sales .
Just a bizarre way to phrase it then
