Glad I’m stocked on memory cards that should last me for a while.
There is, however, a bigger problem that’s not addressed - manufacturers seemingly only playing nice to big corporations while screwing the end customer.
Its the only place left to get huge sums of money, we’re in the end game of capitalism
So they are still making the stuff but not for the common folks?
WHAT, atleast they don’t plan on this being permanent.
I work in a photostore, and the prices for fast sd-cards are getting ridiculous. Every time I scan one in the cash register I am almost scared of telling them the price.
I can’t imagine this is good for consumers.
This isn’t sustainable. Almost all of our infrastructure runs on computers and eventually it will reach a point where you have a computer in charge of vital infrastructure that won’t be able to buy replacement part and it’ll just fail.
We used to get by with much less. If only we could start writing more efficient software again…
Aaron lot of out infrastructure still uses floppy discs.
Yup
Stuff is just getting more expensive, because of demand competition with AI. There is no reason to think that production for non-AI computing will ever hit literally zero.
nah all of the datacenters they build for AI, will come to use then.
they will say"Need computing? Don’t worry, just rent from us, for an ever increasing and enshittifying subscription"
You can’t interact with a computer in the cloud though without some kind of computer in front of you.
We’ll just return to terminals. Just a screen, and input devices connected to a server :(
Right but surely you still need a CPU and RAM at the very least to process the Remote Desktop connection.
I bit of ram, but then I’d imagine you only need some purpose built chip for the connection, input and display logic. Effectively you’d need little more than a chrome cast-like device.
Chips of any kind are the issue. All the silicon fabs are being diverted to cover these insane datacenter orders. Like they’re backordered out over a year at this point. All to boost a tech bubble for a product that doesn’t work
We can’t even get them to upgrade our infrastructure to the 21st century in some cases so good luck with that. We still got shit running on Windows 7 or even Windows XP.
Windows 7. Don’t moan, it was the last good windows. Plus all the themes and hacks you could get for XP. Times were good
Have you considered that…that is the intent?
BART looking smug because there’s no vacuum tube shortage.
Damn. Our global economy is teetering on just in time supply chains.
Decades of nice safe cooperation and suddenly everythings fucked and now we can’t trust eachother.
Its what happens when you let the mob run a country and it runs around smashing everything
Why are people making it out like the direction the US has gone started with Trump?
Trade and inter-country cooperation and commerce weren’t being shaken down as hard before Trump.
Oh right, that’s the surprise. Not the warmongering and murder for capital gains. My bad for misunderstanding.
Commerce doesn’t give a shit. The article is about commerce. Don’t be pissed at me for the way the world works.
Nah. It happens when you let an idiot run things.
Mobsters are still organized businessmen. Just criminal ones. They’d do a much better job.
Elect a clown, expect a circus
When a clown becomes king the palace becomes the circus.
You think it could least be funny
The comments from Las Vegas are about the same. It ran a lot better when the mob was in charge. Now the corps are “optimizing revenue” everything into ruin.
Mobsters (and other organized businessmen) prefer for their goals and means to be impregnable for outside spectators. Meaning we don’t know what’s happening. Also a much better job for their own ends, not yours.
Computation supply chains cracking are a problem, yes.
You know what else is a problem? Those who have a lot of reserve resources and reserve supply chains.
I would expect for USA to start playing Hitler in a decade or so, and it won’t be the “inefficient Hitler” trope usually ascribed to USA. It’ll be the “Hitler having listed all possible targets and eliminated them in under an hour when the global boogaloo starts” trope, the “Hitler having predicted all his possible opponents, as in separate people, down to every decision 10 years forward” kind of trope, the “evil Hari Seldon” kind of trope. The point is clear I hope.
All delivered to us by computation which most of the world uses inefficiently, but with proper understanding much more powerful. Anyway. I suppose it’s too late to change anything.
EDIT: And also “when the global boogaloo starts” kinda omits the fact that it has probably already ended.
Hey, we’re yet to discover whether Hari Seldom would become a villain! With this end of the last season, you’d never know!
The books, however have been out for somewhere between 70 to 30 years
I thought about it, and I must admit I haven’t read it (yet). Yet, the TV series adaptation, it looks like the latest episode was like WTAF?! I mean, I won’t be surprised it would be a completely different adaptation.
I didn’t say a good job.
And somehow it is worse than the high Covid-times
It’s okay we just need to build community fabs. Anyone know how to build a fab?
Ooh ooh I got this one. I’ve played modded Minecraft before.
First you find certus quartz ore until you get at least 4 charged certus, build a charger, then go looking for meteorites to find circuit patterns…
That’s easy: start like a shed and add machinery after finishing the roof.
At this point it’s good for economy when people burn down AI datacenter.
It might burn itself down.
Liberate the RAM first.
Going to take you a lot of time with a soldering iron. These are soldered HBM2 chips, not the DDR DIMMs you want. Still manufactured in the same facilities so they hold up that manufacturing capacity but can’t really be repurposed.
Not even that. They’ve bought a lot more storage, memory and GPUs than they have datawarehouses with power to install them in.
Not even that. The threat of a missile was enough to close the strait of Hormuz. They didn’t need to blow up every ship… Targeting a single ship, alongside an announcement that more is to come, would have been enough. It’s the risk that has the lasting effect, and I think it could only take a single well-motivated person to reproduce those results with data centers.
Except data centers have already been attacked in this war.
Well shit how am I gonna get memory stick duos now?
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Cherry tree and knife.
wtf, Sony giving in also?
AFAIK, Sony doesn’t actually have memory chip manufacturing capabilities, they buy their NAND and DDR chips from companies like Samsung and SK Hynix, and simply package them in different formats or use them in their devices.
The semiconductor fabs of Sony mostly specialize in camera sensors and stuff like that.thanks for your info fellow human! i have not kept up with the evolution of these corpratorganisms
thanks for your info fellow human!
Claude is that you?
As in, they’re gonna stop making redundant bullshit proprietary memory cards in formats no one else uses?
Great. Glad to hear it. Good riddance. Don’t let the casket lid hit you on your way out.
How are SD Cards proprietary?
They at least used to have their own “memory sticks”, but I think those are long discontinued.
IIRC you had to have one for the PSP. Literally can’t think of anything else using them though
Sony loves making their own custom formats.
This affects SD cards, which are extremely common and supported by open source operating systems. This affects Compact Flash cards, which use the same protocol as PATA hard drives, just a different connector.
As in, they’re gonna stop making redundant bullshit proprietary memory cards in formats no one else uses?
Nope, affects almost every card type they make. One(1) of their Type B cards remains in production along with one regular line.
