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AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year (www.theregister.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [M] to c/PurchaseWithPurpose@lemmy.world
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And they are already starting to sell out for next year....

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[–] 12 points 6 months ago (1 child)

AI doesn't need that many hard drives...

The largest surveillance state on the planet does tho.

And that's what they're really building, they just know if they said it people would burn it all down

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    When the AI bubble bursts the nazis can buy up all that hardware for a fraction of the cost, to operate their big brother and killbot armies... labelled as a bailout, with global pension funds paying for it to the tune of trillions in losses.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    There is no middle step...

    It's already fascists building them, and this is what they're building them for.

    I don't think people are understanding how much storage space this is, it's like making multiple backups of the entire internet. That much data just doesn't exist. The only reason to have that much, is the long term archival of everything we're doing on a day to day, hour to hour basis.

    Like, it's already to the point where if a cop pulls you over they pull up you bank accounts and how much you owe. It won't be long till they can see anything and everything about you before they even ask for a license.

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    • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    What's even more bull shit is that they are massively delaying warranty claims on drives too. I have been waiting a month for a replacement 20TB drive from WD. I even paid for the advanced replacement, which I will be disputing with my CC company as soon as they send me my drive. I paid so it's faster and they are fucking me over.

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    [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    A cynical take but so far we are seeing quite a few things come true from this: https://collapseos.org/why.html

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago*

    I'm a little skeptical of how much is considered irreplacable in the event of a supply chain collapse. I do think that it is possible that we can't make any more bleeding edge tech for 25 years so it means no new phones, quantum computers or large server arrays at today's performance levels. However say some rapture happens, but one not bad enough so we will still be able to scavenge parts and think about computing over our basic survival needs. In that scenario, saying we won't be able to setup even a simple local supplychain to make PCBs for Surface Mount chips doesn't make sense to me. That seems to discredit people's ability to set up basic collaborative processes when shit hits the fan, be it a river powered milling machine, or solar photovoltaics which we are still currently making by the millions so there will be a lot lying around.

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