Thats one hell of a leap you got there. Things have gotten more expensive before. It won't be the last

xerox13ster an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Have things gotten this much more expensive at the same time that massive datacenters are harmonically distorting power delivery [0] to the point that it degrades the lifetime of your existing devices?

The AI datacenters are making things more expensive and at the same time destroying existing electronics. All this is happening at the same time that the major OS vendors are locking down their operating systems and creating device attestation frameworks.

Whether it is a coordinated effort behind the scenes is irrelevant, the real outcome of all of this is that the average home tech prosumer will not be able to afford to maintain personal hardware that remains compatible with mainstream services.

In light of the consumer market RAM shortages, all the consumer devices will transition to thin client architectures that offload all their real compute to the centralized cloud. You will not be allowed to modify these devices, and there will be nothing you can modify them to do. They will have no ports, using wireless charging and wireless connectivity, and likely even any UART will be left off the board, if you can get them open at all. Like the Apple Watch or Airpods, they will not be built to be openable, and opening them will be an irreversibly destructive act.

You will not be able to buy these devices, they will only be available on a subscription basis. You will own nothing and be told you should be happy.

Online major digital services will only be compatible with these devices, offering no endpoints for third party devices to connect.

[0]: https://archive.ph/f707o

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jauntywundrkind 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

8x more expensive? I doubt things have ever gotten anywhere remotely near this crazy this bought out this not for sale this fast.

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malfist an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Memory used to be worth more than gold by weight, and still every stick was sold.

GPUs, flight controllers, etc went sky high during the pandemic and we still buy them today.

Hard drives got way more expensive during flooding, and we still have local storage.

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xienze an hour ago | parent [-]

> Memory used to be worth more than gold by weight, and still every stick was sold.

And right before that, was it dirt cheap? No? Slightly different scenario then.

> GPUs, flight controllers, etc went sky high during the pandemic and we still buy them today.

They're even more now...

> Hard drives got way more expensive during flooding, and we still have local storage.

Nowhere near as expensive as they are now, nowhere near as high a jump in price in a short period of time as now. Plus, there was a defined end point of "flood over, back to normal." There is no "AI data center build out over, back to normal" in sight.

	▲	jauntywundrkind 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I'm so unsure why someone was working so hard to wedge such doubt amid such clearness. Yes, well said, very core clear differences you raise, my thanks.

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t-writescode 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Tulips?

	▲	jauntywundrkind 22 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Tulips just look pretty. That's a mania. I think we recognize the mental agility that having compute fan give people, that we acknowledge this bicycle of the mind as potentially freeing liberating and virtually travelling.
	▲	WithinReason an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Bitcoin?

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