According to Taiwan tech publication DigiTimes, most AI firms are unwilling to wait two years for HDD supplies to stabilize and are shifting to SSDs instead. To contain costs, they are choosing QLC NAND-based drives over the faster, more durable, and more expensive TLC variants.

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    It is useless to play this game against them. All the top players are already in.[1]
    Best, find your own way to create ICs and make them for community purposes.
    There will be much less money and you will be tempted to sell to AI chaps, so you will need willpower.
    Specially after putting the time and effort to manufacture yourselves.


    1. they have won against local textiles in almost all places and against little food industries in enough places. They start by destroying the incentive to produce locally and continue with centralising the means of production. All the while, using the fruits of your labour against you. Eventually they want to destroy your ability to walk away, by being the only option everywhere. ↩︎

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      It does somewhat feel like all the levers of power are in the hands of people who have little to no reliance on the consumer market anymore. Your money is no good here.

      They can all enjoy the perfect financial circlejerk with most of the world’s money whilst the rest of us scratch at the window.

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        scratch at the window

        I have read this thing 2 times today and I can’t find a meaning for this.
        What does this idiom mean?

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          I mean, in essence, it refers to you trying to get someone else’s attention when you are outside of a situation and looking in.

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          It’s an old saying, longer version I know is:

          “Saddest thing in the world is a cat scratching at the window because it used to be an inside cat.”