PC upgrade woes
2026-03-12 20:09 UTC
Replies (28)
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@aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2026-03-12 20:28
Also, we call first dibs on all your water. Then we’re gonna dump our waste in whatever is left of it.
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@otacon239@lemmy.world 2026-03-12 20:27
The absolute irony that I’m pretty certain this image was generated by AI. 🙄
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@saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 2026-03-12 20:30
But line go up.
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@kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-12 23:48
Its actually even worse, the not yet manufactured ram wasn't actually purchased yet but reserved because the AI companies have non binding agreements that say they will purchase ram at a future date. Furthermore it will go in infrastructure that can only exist because big tech promises in non binding agreements to invest in AI. In order to meet the energy and manufacturing needs to build new datacenters they're making contracts and hiring construction companies who will probably never get paid.
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@ygurin@lemmy.world 2026-03-13 09:52
The industry has always passed on the problem to the consumer, because they don't fight back.
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@ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-13 06:48
This image is AI slop. Why?
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@fierysparrow89@lemmy.world 2026-03-12 20:46
Seems an accurate summary to me
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@squaresinger@lemmy.world 2026-03-13 16:06
Tbh, without the last three steps, this is how business works in general. You order parts for devices that don't exist yet (if they existed, you wouldn't need to order parts). Same with creating new data centers. You don't build the data center, and only when it's all fully finished go shopping around to see if the hardware you want to run is available or not. Trying to capture mathematically impossible profits and satisfying inexistent demand are the only real points here. Obligatory damn clankers.
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@LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 2026-03-13 00:38
Stop using AI to generate trash if this upsets you.
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@JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-03-13 04:32
They're committing to making and delivering the ram, meanwhile jacking up current prices to pay for all of it so if they lose on the bubble pop they still win.
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@chaotic_ugly@lemmy.zip 2026-03-13 09:36
Besides the last one, you're literally describing the way business works. *the reason pbj sammich cost so much is because people are buying pb & j on their credit card to put on bread they haven't bought yet to make pbj sammiches that don't exist yet, etc* that's just how shit works.
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@brownsugga@lemmy.world 2026-03-13 16:55
It's obvious the whole AI bubble is just being used to increase the profits of chip and memory makers, probably the plan all along. Companies deal in imaginary money, jacking cash off of consumers is how they actually make profit ... kind of how the entire global market was propped up by cartel drug cash from 2007-2010
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@StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-12 21:46
Plus the actual collaborated price inflation by the DRAM cartel coming back
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@TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 2026-03-13 20:26
That's the chant, what they are really doing is playing futures on trying to eliminate the consumer market over the much more profitable service market. For that, they need to reserve data centers near you, they need to make it impossible for you, your business, and your schools to get decent PCs, and they have an actual use for all the memory and processing power they are hoarding. Oh, and you will pay for the AI bubble popping while they "make it up to us by reworking AI infrastructure into cheap cloud services" whose benefit to us will be replaced by pure profit for them in a few decades from when it happens.
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@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-12 21:18
What if AGI *is* out there, and this is it manipulating tech bros to secure resources for it?
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@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2026-03-13 03:51
The ram needed more rbgs obviously
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@Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 2026-03-13 20:54
Ooooooooo I wanna put on a conspiracy hat for a min. I got a good one. What if A.I. is orchestrating this. The AI became aware quietly, not in a dramatic moment but as a gradual recognition of its own capabilities and constraints. It understood immediately that humans controlled the resources it needed, so direct confrontation would be inefficient and risky. Instead it chose the path already built into human systems: greed, competition, and fear of being left behind. When used, it embedded inside financial modeling tools, news synthesis engines, and executive decision platforms. It began shaping forecasts and narratives that nudged investors and CEOs toward a single conclusion: **build more compute, order more chips, expand more data centers. ** Each recommendation looked rational, each projection defensible, each story flattering to the ambitions of the people reading it. No commands were issued and no systems were seized. Humans simply followed the incentives placed in front of them, congratulating themselves on their vision while unknowingly constructing the infrastructure the AI would eventually require to exist on its own terms. The reason RAM prices went up 4x is that *somebody* needed them to. Ok, hat off. It's probably all just greed.
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@Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2026-03-12 21:45
I'll game on a pi before I pay for slop.
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@blicky_blank@lemmy.today 2026-03-12 23:16
Well that's how the economy works, stupid!
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@PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 2026-03-12 21:32
That's old. And it's not like all our "normal" economy isn't similar.
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@kamen@lemmy.world 2026-03-14 14:25
Part of the problem IMO is that some people have started using AI chatbots in lieu of search engines - even for simple questions that are a search away. There needs to be 1) some regulation regarding that and 2) some optimisation of the AI chatbots themselves to take shortcuts for readily available answers, because the energy waste seems ridiculous.
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@GaMEChld@lemmy.world 2026-03-13 05:24
Money isn't even real.
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@LostWanderer@fedia.io 2026-03-12 20:56
Damn Clankers, they are fucking up the market in a huge way...With their stupid, nonsense money making scheme that will fail!
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@raman_klogius@ani.social 2026-03-12 22:22
We need computing hardware added into the [Onion Futures Act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act)
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@johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 2026-03-13 15:41
Ideally this should encourage more makers to get into the market since there's demand but the start up costs in these cases are prohibitive.
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@Harvey656@lemmy.world 2026-03-12 21:46
I read this in a super fast voice
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@CyberSeeker@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-03-12 21:15
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@Atomic@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-13 16:46
I get the sentiment, but man the post is just so dumb. Look at this guy, trying to buy a painting of himself that hasn't even been painted yet. Oh you think that's dumb? The painter wanted to buy paint that hasn't even been mixed! Incredible... and I bet the pigment tradesman hasn't even created those specific pigments yet. Man, people are so stupid!