The bubble cannot burst fast enough. I’m tired of these higher hardware costs because of a feature that nobody wants.
My fear is that this is only going to become the new pricing floor. Someone suggested that these companies are going to systematically scoop up nearly all remaining tech in an attempt to sell cloud computing etc as the only option for the average consumer (due to lack of affordable or perhaps even available tech)…
I wouldn’t be surprised to find out they don’t want us having any access to our own computers etc because they can only control so much of what we can do with them.
I think digital fascism is a likely motivator at this point. The ceos have all been hanging out with the political fascists, so there’s not much reason to think otherwise.
It’s not really something that no one wants though… Lemmy is loudly against it, but in real life we have tons of people actually asking for it all the time. Hell at work they had to setup a company AI provider account because people using their own subscriptions was happening too much.
IT departments are under a lot of pressure by business leadership to have AI offerings. Most businesses are asking to implement a buzzword, not solve any kind of business challenge.
As others, my basic home lab NAS plans are grounding to a stop because of worsening prices. Next up, phones are going to be even more expensive. Video game console price increases again
I’ve been putting off building a new pc. More and more it looks like my 10 year old machine has got a few more years left in it.
It sounds conspiratorial to say it seems like they are trying to crash the consumer market so that computing will be entirely dependent on their services, but I mean…
It’s classic rent seeking. We will own nothing, just lease a low-powered client device from our phone carrier or ISP and do everything in the cloud with AI.
That seems to be the plan from these megacorps anyways.
It’s because the average USA citizen is economically irrelevant. The money is in the top 10% and the big corpos, especially AI with all the money sloshing around there. The 90% consumer market doesn’t matter as much these days.
Dude.
Fuck ALL of this.
God fucking damnit seriously.
Dude that steam machine going to end up costing $5,000 for a $500 pc.
Remember when buying a PC was semi-affordable? That was nice. Now it’s transitioning into a luxury product.
Guess I waited a hair too long to pull the trigger on a NAS setup
I’m saving up now to afford the lease on a nice certified pre-owned Dell in a couple years. My buddy Dave works over at the dealership so I should be able to lock in a good rate. And hey, with their super lease-to-own options maybe I’ll be able to keep it at the end! That’d be nice you know… something to hand down to the kids when they’re old enough for their computing license. Fingers crossed! 🤞
my HDD with 80k power on hours is gonna have to keep kicking for now I guess
Same with my 4x 16TBs in my NAS.
God I hope it will crash only once the bubble bursts to high heaven and a disk costs 20% of the current MSRP :|
I’m just gonna say, check out shucks.top, just got two 14tb drives for 160 each.
Are they used HDDs? Nothing worse than buying something that’s on the brink of dying.
Really?
CAN’T WE HAVE NICE THINGS FOR ONCE (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
Theory: the push to get everyone and everything on clouds where they can control it just “happens” to coincide with this development.
