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HDs are too slow for AI itself, so I can only assume that this is an indication of just how much data those AI services are farming from people.
They’re literally making sure that we gamers/consumers cannot own a PC and must rent from the cloud.
Big tech is gradually seizing all means of computation. Fuck that.
I’m not sure buying all the RAM, SSD and HDD capacity for years is gradual.
But I do agree it’s a problem.
Western Digital just gets added to the list of companies that won’t get a penny from me. When they inevitably try and come back begging for sales from the consumer market.
While you’re here, could I ask for a short list? I’m buying a few replacement parts right now and I’m already avoiding Crucial
I’ve only got 3 at the mo. Western Digital, Crucial and Nvidia.
Nvidia is mainly because of their price gouging and general fuck you to gaming.
HP has been on my list for a very long while
A year ago I felt like I never needed to purchase hardware again. In the last few months it’s been constant. This sucks.
When do we start boycotting any companies that behave like this? We need a fucking class-action lawsuit against this behavior.
Even if you boycott WD, the AI companies are spending 18x more than the entire consumer market.
This is where any sensible country would call for antitrust.
The externalities and consequences from this are going to fuck up the world economy, hard.
Ummm… we’re kinda being forced to boycott already so what does calling it intentional change?
I think it’s a post-bubble-pop boycott. These manufacturers are not ramping up production because they know the demand won’t be permanent. So when things return to normal, whenever that is, we continue to not buy their products.
The problem is this relies on two things One - people actually remembering Two - Data centers, enterprises, and OEMs, who make the large majority of HDD purchases also boycott.
WD? They are already not planning to sell to us.
I guess AI companies? I’m already not buying anything from them. They also supposedly operate at a loss. I guess all the AI tech bros pay them, but they aren’t easy to persuade otherwise.
Never, because the entire tech sector is a cartel and nobody else produces this tech at this capacity and capability. You basically have to completely swalear off of electronics and the Internet entirely.
At this point it’d be all of them, but unless you’re running a data center buying drives by the hundreds or thousands there’s not a lot of impact you can make.
What does a boycott achieve, exactly? What are you suing them for, exactly?
This gonna go with all of the unused nvidia cards in the corner until they can find enough electricity?
They’re going to innovate so hard with that extra security and all their inventory already sold, right?? 2x production next year, amazing new features?
Hah… Haha… Hah… Ha… sigh
At least they’re somewhat useful, as opposed to that harddrive-destroying block chain stuff a couple of years back. Chiacoin, or something?
Crypto never really used hard drives that much besides a little to store wallets
I mean. Useful how? At least you can but drugs with crypto. Can’t buy drugs with AI.
A fancy autocomplete is miles more useful than a shitcoin that you can’t even use for buying drugs.
