My most recent hobby has been an old Suzuki Samurai that I dragged out of the woods a few years ago. It doesn’t use much RAM. It doesn’t even have fuel injection.
I’ve also been getting back into archery with my kid.
Honestly, the more I think about it, the more I think that making it harder to get a computer and play games is a huge miscalculation. If everyone is distracted by Call of Battle: Dutyfield then you have fewer bored assholes casting about for something to do, and if people can still play Factorio, you don’t end up with bored, autistic, organized assholes casting about for something to do.
The reason RAM prices went up 4x is that a massive amount of not-yet-manufactured memory was bought with money that doesn’t really exist to be put into GPUs that haven’t been made yet, to be installed in data centers that haven’t been built, powered by infrastructure that may never exist, to satisfy demand that isn’t actually there, in order to generate profits that are mathematically impossible.
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All that to create Artificial Intelligence that isn’t really intelligent.
What do you mean?
Just walk the car wash!
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.
. . . And then the market will be flooded with RAM that companies preordered and can’t pay for, because the AI bubble burst before it could be manufactured.
Hey, I can dream, right? And seriously, I would be quite happy if this causes an increase in dumb appliances, devices, and cars in the meanwhile.
They’re already hedging by trying to rent you products instead of selling
Most of the lithography that is dedicated to RAM is being done for HBM modules, which are not consumer grade. So more likely it will end up in landfills.
Or new consumer HBM modules
Chip designs take years, so if there’s a sudden glut of HBM, there’s no good way to put it to use outside of existing designs.
My AMD GPU has HBM.
These are giant dedicated HBM chips that are on the motherboard, they won’t be going into any GPUs.
HBM are thinned die stacks which are assembled at the GPU periphery using silicon interposers. My AMD GPU has HBM. In case of HBM overproduction post-bubble we might see resurgence of GPUs with HBM rather than GDDRx.
Laughs in AC/DC Model Trains and Battletech
“everything you care about” - Time to change hobbies and care about things that don’t have RAM then.
I’d be happy to use last gen stuff too
Starts to get into crochet, sewing and knitting.
Until Big Crochet buy up all the materials. Fuck Big Crochet
You joke, but the modern world has actually really fucked textile hobbies. One example is yarn for crochet/knitting. The major producers all moved their production to new countries in the past decade and, along with it, switched to shorter staple fiber (i.e. the individual fibers they make up the yarn are shorter).
Obviously, this makes goods made with these yarns worse, but there is also a growing, though rare, problem from people inhaling the fibers while knitting. It creates a lung disease similar to what someone who was exposed to asbestos experiences (though asbestos is much worse).
There are still ways to get artisanal yarns, maybe without plastic being one of the primary ingredients, but those are generally very expensive.
Then I will start to make my own cordage from nettles. The worse these companies become, the more I will return to monke.
Big Iron taking all the iron like kung fu panda
Just need to open-source it and print your own.
Rear your own sheep, spin your own yarn and start FOSS
If you are willing to spin the yarn you could probably just get some wool from a farmer for very cheap/free. Its almost worthless.
You could get some from my dog this spring when he gets his annual haircut.
We often joke about making our cat a scarf from all the fur he sheds
I already bought all I need for the next 4 years back in 2024. Hopefully it all continues to work.
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…
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 think this will be required to get full score on the safety test in Europe soon, so hopefully it can bleed into the global car market in a few years.
Unfortunately cars are one of those things where the brussels effect doesn’t work as well since lots of companies are set up to manufacture and deliver specific models to specific countries
Hyundai Motor group said they would commit to buttons but the leaks of the ioniq 5 refresh look like all the other chinese crap out there with a bigass tablet in the middle.
Also fuck Elon and Tesla for starting that shit
Hahahahahahahha…but yeah, that’d be awesome. Fucking damn touchscreens in cars.
The number of touch screen clicks I need to turn my windshield wipers on is just plain dangerous.
I’m old enough to remember a time when windows were rolled up by hand. It wasn’t perfect, but you never had to turn your car on again to deal with a window forgotten open.
Wait, touch screen for windshield wipers‽ Fuck that shit. It’s supposed to be a stalk opposite the turn signals because it’s safety critical. What next, touch screen for your turn signals‽
a time when windows were rolled up by hand
If you are talking about using the handle, then there are still plenty of cheaper cars that have that, depending upon where you are looking.
I like the function some cars have when you can old down the lock button to close all windows (and unlock to open them), without starting your car.
On the bright side it’s being used to artificially prop up a technology that nobody actually needs or even really wants
But there are still enough companies trying to ride the wave.
And paying all people’s salaries to Cloud AI services.
All that means is that I’ll start caring about something else. It’s RAM, not food or shelter.
They are underestimating my willingness to run tiny systems. Say hello to Tiny Core Linux.
Running something meaningful on a $20 hardware is a pleasure like no other
Its a nice flex to be more productive on a potato than some are on the fancy stuff
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.
Most of the stuff I care about is like 30+ years old so prob not.
Yeah, I have a backlog of games and thus usually they’re old games to complete (only just couple of years old, not 30 years old), or at least only require lower spec, so I am not in a rush to upgrade my laptop.
I’m still trying to finish Nethack, so I guess that’s…(Looks at calendar) Forty years…
Oh yeah my games backlog is huge, I haven’t actually played any in a few years due to depression, but all my old synths and samplers use memory that has been deprecated for ages anyways. I hope people use this time to play through their backlogs like you and maybe these companies will put a little more effort into not fucking people over. I’m a dreamer, I know.
I hear ya on the depression killing the desire for things that you used to enjoy.
I hope you are slowly able to get back into it. Stay strong my friend.
Thank you <3
If I become anarchist, trying to burn data center with AI inside, will I be Robin Hood?
EMP would be better
Steal the RAM from the rich and give to the poor
I believe we already established that they are making the ram incompatible with the systems of the poor.
Well then I’ll jack the motherboards too.
That might just make weirder rigs come to existence.
Multi-user memory-protected operating systems of the “rich” have spread to the machines for the “poor”, simply because it’s work that can be reused.
If there’ll be enough RAM of a certain interface standard on the market due to that being used by all the AI hardware, it will eventually start making sense to produce personal hardware supporting it.
Take the whole system.
Someone will make Linux work with it.
That was a good one!
