Butlerian Jihad When?
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2026
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It warms the cockles of my heart that I renamed my self hosted LLM's deep thinking mode to Mentats. For shits and giggles, I made it append every "deep thinking" conclusion it makes with [ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN!].
It's the simple things, really.
Why… why would hard drives be going up in price?? AI does not use spinning platters of rust, like, at all.
Because the opposite is true. AI uses spinning rust far, far more than it does solid state storage.
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Glad I picked up new NAS drives when I did. 8x 18TB Seagate Exos for $180 each. Two years later its doubled
I am so fucking jealous of you right now.
Goddamnit. First ram now this? I'm never making my nas
Fuck ai
Dude from NVIDIA: "please stop talking bad about AI. It's hurting my feelings."
I have a NAS with four 8TB Western Digital Red drives that are getting up there in age. I have been looking for a good deal to upgrade then with higher capacity drives for the last few years. Now I’m thinking when they fail I’ll probably have to buy lower capacity drives and be more picky with what data I keep around.
Maybe I’ll look into burning Blu-rays and CDs. I’m definitely not going back to cloud storage.