You see what's happening right?
They are preventing you from accessing the means of computing, making you reliant on their services in the future they're building.
At astronomical rents.
wccftech.com/western-digital-h…
Western Digital Has No More HDD Capacity Left, as CEO Reveals Massive AI Deals; Brace Yourself For Price Surges Ahead!
HDD capacity from one of the world's largest manufacturers has started to run dry, according to WD's CEO, as major LTAs have been signed out.Muhammad Zuhair (Wccftech)
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James Tinmouth
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in reply to Taggart • • •Pablo Martini (Geezer)
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I was a fan of a King Crimson tribute band Toploader & a cd I had started mis-tracking
I emailed the management a new one was promptly sent, off the cuff I was told then back up your CDs as the lifespan even of manufactured discs was not assured!
Back to vinyl!
James Tinmouth
in reply to Pablo Martini (Geezer) • • •@PabloMartini yea some of my earliest ones - not even that early in the scheme of CDs - have rotted.
Yet audio tapes still play, c64 tapes still load fine.
Seems like a standard tech con!
Galactic Stone
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in reply to Galactic Stone • • •@galacticstone Same, I have a stack of older machines that mostly got new drives in the last year and got maxed out RAM.
I did it because of tariffs, but it works for this too.
Raymond Russell
in reply to Galactic Stone • • •Yeah, all those TV cash-for-gold adverts are gonna get dislodged by cash-for-RAM and cash-for-hdd's/sdd's
Jerry 🦙💝🦙
in reply to Taggart • • •tomcat
in reply to Taggart • • •Phase 1: force AI adoption by removing other options to not use it
Phase 2: make computing unaffordable for the masses by buying up all stock of components, driving up demand while building datacenters.
Phase 3: further increase demand for and adoption of your cloud computing/AI datacenter by making people reliant on crappy cloud PCs/PCaaS devices with little horsepower to do much else
Phase 4: use telemetry/spyware in said datacenters to surveil/harvest data from every user of said cloud PCs and use it to serve hyper-targeted ads (everyone knows people love hyper-targeted ads) and send drone fleets to respond to/harass
dissentersdomestic terroristsPhase 5: profit
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Violet Madder
in reply to tomcat • • •And everything ends up looking like Gaza. Yes. This is the plan.
vrek
in reply to tomcat • • •@tomcat back when I was a child, like in the 90s I had this idea of the future but not so orwellian. I imagined that most homes would eventually have a big powerful computer in a cliset/basement/attic and then have several like dumb terminals around that accessed that data. So like you have all the music you like on the central computer then you go in the kitchen and tell the kitchen terminal to play your favorite song.
Kinda like self-hosting but with basic input, screen, audio only
Taggart
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in reply to Taggart • • •I regret having delayed upgrading my old 4x2TB NAS array, because I didn't want to spend that much money on HDDs. Seems like everywhere is limited to 2 drives per account where I am.
May need to get a hotswap enclosure and pick out all my old 0.5TB drives for less frequently used stuff.
Ra (Freya) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩
in reply to tschenkel • • •George B
in reply to tschenkel • • •I have a bunch of mismatched drives using btrfs to build a single raid partition across them all as my desktop's big storage hoard
Binary Large Octopus
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Did ZX81 basic!
On a portable 5" TV screen!
AI6YR Ben
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in reply to Taggart • • •The Turtle
in reply to Taggart • • •whaddya suppose they're gonna do when all those drives get old in a few years? Dump them in the ocean? Nope, they will go in big crates and get wrapped in saran wrap and sold in lots of 1000, to guys in industrial suburbs who will uncrate and sell them for thirty bucks each.
"Not good enough for AI, but good enough for you!"
The moment Samsung or Hitachi start selling 10-petabyte drives,all those little terabyte SSDs will suddenly be worth fuckshit except to normal users.
The Turtle
in reply to The Turtle • • •Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd
in reply to The Turtle • • •@the_turtle It gets sent into the shredder in the name of privacy?
youtube.com/watch?v=TQoKFovvig… though this is a video by Google from 2013 and I dunno if they're still doing it now
How Google Protects Your Data
Google Workspace (YouTube)FediThing
in reply to Taggart • • •nieuemma
in reply to Taggart • • •I very much wish I had purchased a 4TB NVME drive when they were 230 USD, now that the one I wanted is 700+.
I also wish I had ordered my laptop with 32GB, instead of 16GB DDR5, when it was an 80 USD upgrade, rather than now costing 300+.
musing_sys🇨🇦
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in reply to Taggart • • •Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd
in reply to Taggart • • •I wonder what would happen if the costs get too high to bear and people ended up... opting out entirely from computing
I mean it's not like you need computers to be able to grow a couple trees for food right
Luna :3
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