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Big Tech is turning you into a digital tenant, but there is a way to evict them (www.neowin.net)
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The shift to SaaS and Windows 11 updates means you no longer own your software. Here is how free software tools can help you reclaim control.

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[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Not just GPUs. This time is RAM and storage are also massively inflated because they’re allocated for a product that nobody really wants and nobody wants to pay for.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 3 points 10 hours ago

I heard a rumor that China is preparing to flood the RAM market - bringing prices back down.

It's all artificial scarcity at the moment, they don't spin up foundaries quickly because the capital investment is huge, but overall the chips don't cost that much to build, even accounting for the capital up front. The problem is the market didn't provide enough supply to meet the AI demand, so - like $100+/bbl oil - we're faced with scarcity pricing (AKA record profits for those holding the stock.)