16 GB model goes up by $80 to $385, more than triple the $120 it launched at in January 2025

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[–] 26 points 8 hours ago (10 children)

Short of China taking an absolute dump on the market (though I think they'd tarrif it back up there) I doubt I'll ever own a new computer ever again. It's eBay and fb marketplace for me the rest of my life.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 8 hours ago* (9 children)

    i think when those mythical nvl72 sitting in warehouses turn on and there is no more demand, the prices on hardware/wafers will probably crash, which is something jensen knows and cautiously advocates using local llm if you really want to protect your predatory corporation privacy, to get another market. is there really a demand for 10x llm usage, 100 bucks per each american a month, 360 billion per year? i very much doubt it, government can spin this a little bit further, but not forever.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 8 hours ago (7 children)

    why would you need panopticon for americans, so that they would buy more nike shoes? conversely, nsa already has what it needs (well unless those bugs were theirs).

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  • [–] 17 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

    America is moving from a consumer economy to a prisoner from home economy.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    to a prisoner from home economy.

    You say this half jokingly, but it's quite literally Deleuze's Society of Control.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

    Oh, no, I'm not joking about this at all. Some years ago (early 2010s?) Geo Group started investing heavily into house arrest related tech. While ICE is still keeping a hefty amount of folks as onsite slaves, they've also been sending a lot of them home with ankle bracelets and other monitoring solutions. The neoliberal psychological enslavement project is being sunset and US porky-happy are shifting America back into old fashioned slavery as fast as they can get away with.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

    Nike owns converse, so it is entirely possible to

    buy more nike shoes? conversely

    Idk whether this was intentional on your part but either way good bit.

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