which is why there is no hoarding of all the computers and RAM for data centers that don’t even exist.

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/116127090589590254

which is why there is no hoarding of all the computers and RAM for data centers that don’t even exist. what we are witnessing is a mafia-type collusion to remove from commercial circulation all the computational power people need to continue about their daily digital lives without paying rents to IP-thieving techbro clouds.

THERE IS NO RAM SHORTAGE.

THERE IS A BIG TECH COLLUSION TO CREATE A PC TECH SHORTAGE

memory is just the beginning. techbros are out to kill the PC market

Gilly Gunson

@blogdiva @jenniferplusplus "you'll own nothing and be happy"

I was sort of hoping that these imaginary hardware shortages would get everyone up in arms but I expect most people think it's a temporary blip.

Flipper 🐬🏳️‍🌈

@blogdiva yep: they're not even buying RAM, just RAM futures, creating an artificial scarcity that drives up prices for their competition (ie. us, ordinary human beings).

disorderlyf

@blogdiva Even HDD and GPU prices are going up now. At this rate, CPUs and possible even PSUs will start getting crazy expensive if the market doesn't course correct.

Ben Todd

@giflian

I'll be happy and use a note pad and pen. Screw giving them evil buggers even a penny.

@blogdiva @jenniferplusplus

Gabs

@blogdiva they read Doctorow and, like they did with Orwell, (deliberately) learned the exact opposite of the message.

Jargoggles

@flipper @blogdiva
Sometimes, I like to imagine a world where we just threw people into a volcano if they tried to do shit like lend the same banana to three people and then claim they had three bananas or sell people bananas that don't exist yet.

Jo with elbows up & chin up

@blogdiva siege warfare. It’s always the same. Laying siege and hoarding everything.

Rob

RE: https://floss.social/@fdroidorg/116126780481394324

@blogdiva more enshitification, resist

Urzl

@blogdiva Good timing for Google to lock down Android yet further, right?

John

@blogdiva

Will they manage to kill the PC market? Or will they manage to give birth to tens of thousands of small, local computer recycling, refurbishing, and building companies/centers?

All of it is going to collapse in on itself. It's just Theranos except instead of a couple billions of dollars it's a couple trillions of dollars.

Lance

@blogdiva Makes me glad I own around a half dozen computers of various types. I can probably live out my remaining years with at least one functional personal computer.

I hope sanity prevails sooner than that, and that the market isn't thoroughly gutted by greedy techbros.

Fluffy Kitty Cat

@disorderlyf @blogdiva this is the Point work hard and trees start subsidizing local production to ensure availability

Fluffy Kitty Cat

@johnzajac @blogdiva that, and diversification of production. Things like RISC-V aren't just for nerds, it's the key to a resilient supply chain.

The computer market's getting fundamentally upended and old hardware won't be automatically obsolete anymore

Fluffy Kitty Cat

@johnzajac @blogdiva now is the time for right to repair anything with a chip in it

Rythur

@blogdiva

Backfires, we all go outside

To play.

Cleo

@blogdiva yep, home server community was becoming way to refined for them to be comfortable. Someone with no technical knowledge could easily run a qnap server.

░ON░THE█AIR░

@blogdiva Watch me go back to paper... seriously. I've just about had it.

RealGene ☣️

@blogdiva
Wouldn't it be easier to just have the PRC take Taiwan?

Kinene

@gooba42 @blogdiva Grrrrr.

Wandering Adventure Party

which is why there is no hoarding of all the computers and RAM for data centers that don’t even exist.