My friend bought what he thought was 16GB ddr5 for $50, but turned out to be 10 sets for $500. Now they're selling for about $250 each. Everything is insane!
I bought a new laptop with 16 GB of DDR5 (8 GB soldered and 8 GB socketed) as it was super cheap for an 8840HS, and was planning to buy a 48 GB SODIMM for 120€ but held off on it for multiple reasons, thinking "it can wait and I can make do with less memory for now"
Yeah that 48 GB stick now costs 500€ which is just 50€ short of the entire laptop...
This too shall pass - we can hope that now there is both a massive revenue opportunity in the server market as well as an abandoned consumer market ripe for the taking, some enterprising manufacturer is going to look into filling this niche. Probably someone out of China, or maybe even India if they can get their shit together in time.
Sam Altman has nothing to do with the current RAM shortage.
Moreover, this is not the first RAM shortage. It also occurred during the earlier crypto-mining boom, and at that time no one was having public meltdowns trying to hunt down the inventor of Bitcoin.
The reason there is a RAM shortage is straightforward, the manufacturers that control the majority of production have chosen to sell primarily to a single industry because that is where the highest margins currently exist. From a financial standpoint, they have little incentive to sell to anyone else.
If you are looking for accountability, direct it at the large corporations that are deliberately allocating supply to maximize profit. They are the ones shaping the shortage, not individual tech executives.
Now, who could be in charge of the company most well known for needing absurd amounts of RAM to make their product work?
Who goes around making hundred billion dollar deals to ensure their business has access to massive datacenters filled with GPUs that need 2000GB of RAM?
Whose company recently wanted to buy 40% of all RAM on the market, and got a letter of intent from major RAM producers who were willing to supply it, assuming they got paid?
Oh, right! SAM FUCKING ALTMAN! You're right that RAM producers are currently profit-maximizing openly and nakedly, but to call him blameless would be naive and just wrong. They wouldn't be doing so, at least not to this degree, had ChatGPT and LLMs not become the hottest new scam bubble tech industry through his actions.
Sam Altman put in an order for RAM. A company is willing to supply it. That company is souly responsible for how they distribute their product. They could only supply them with a small portion of the order and be fair about it but they choose not too. 🤷
Yes Altman is not blameless but he's also not responsible.
Like when Brian Thompson was killed and his vice president took over the reigns within the hour? Like when they continued denying claims at record rates using AI? Fact of the matter is, somebody got rich off that guy dying, these sort of events won't make the rich less greedy, it will enable and embolden them so that only the most violent rise to the top.
Tankie here. Marxists-Leninist don't condone stochastic violent acts during capitalism against Capitalists, the word we use to refer to such tactics is "adventurism", and it's criticized heavily.
He's telling the truth for once. MLs don't believe that workers should have agency over their lives or the revolution. They only condone violence against capitalists if leadership ordered them to. They're very much a top down belief system hence the "Tankie" part: ie enforcing political orthodoxy with the threat of violence against the workers.
They only condone violence against capitalists if leadership ordered them to
No. We just believe that adventurism isn't a good tactic in bourgeois dictatorship, and we distinguish it from repression of capitalists by the dictatorship of the proletariat, i.e. by the state democratically representing the workers in power.
Then you don't support Russia, China, or North Korea and you're not a tankie, or you do support those entities and you're lying about their activities, in either scenario that's bullshit.
Because China, Russia, and North Korea run psyops that either directly or indirectly harm western nations, such as by endorsing, and in some cases funding and arming, people who oppose or disadvantage the governments and peoples in those nations in any way and by doing anything in their power to decrease credibility and trust of those nation's governments.
Examples: China used its TikTok military op not only to collect and categorize americans (and other nations) but to directly endorse Donald Trump for president, followed by the largest shift rightward in young voters ever recorded. China wants Anarchy in the west, China wants an opportunity to grow their own borders unchecked and become the dominant global superpower.
That's your definition. To me, it means essentially "Marxist-Leninist who supports actually existing socialist projects". I still fail to see what my views on some countries have to do with adventurism.
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Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 238d
That's the least significant reason for beating Sam Altman to death.
galoisghost@aussie.zone · 61 pts · 238d
Once you’ve been searching on the internet for a fact, you’ll never stop wanting to beat every AI tech bro to death with your bare hands.
TheBat@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 238d
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 53 pts · 238d
Why not both?
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 10 pts · 238d
Why stop at both of them?
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 238d
There's a quite sizeable list at the moment
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 2 pts · 238d
We can tag team each other.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 22 pts · 238d
Elon Musk wanted to do this, but his mom said he couldn’t.
BoJackHorseman@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 238d
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 37 pts · 238d
Tangent5280@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 238d
Oof, you lucky dog. Except the last part, but that's just the difference between being just lucky and being really fucking lucky.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 238d
StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 238d
My friend bought what he thought was 16GB ddr5 for $50, but turned out to be 10 sets for $500. Now they're selling for about $250 each. Everything is insane!
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 237d
little_tuptup@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 238d
whaaat? did he really say this or is this ai?
ai is so realistic now.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 237d
You are now permanently banned from Reddit
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 237d
And the only reason you're not banned from X is because Altman and Musk are competing for the same tech messiah title.
DmMacniel@feddit.org · 14 pts · 238d
But why not give in? Bottling up negative energy is not good for you.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 12 pts · 238d
What was the original quote?
thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz · 88 pts · 238d
Came to ask the same thing.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 41 pts · 238d
Damn, that's also true.
Fortunately Kissinger is dead!
Unfortunately, Altman is still alive.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 10 pts · 238d
Someone really should go check on Kissinger to make sure he's dead. Kissinger gave me massive lich vibes.
Furbag@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 237d
Don't worry, I found the phylactery.
frizzo@piefed.social · 1 pts · 238d
This is America best Altman twice once for him once for Henry
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 238d
That's it. Hardly comparable with someone having to wait for the price of RAM to come down is it?
Bazell@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 238d
Why hurting your own hands if you can use tools to make beating more efficient?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 238d
Henry Kissinger deserves that personal touch.
StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 238d
I'd rather cut Sam Altman's hands off and use them to beat him to death while screaming "stop hitting yourself, Sam! Stop hitting yourself!"
netweirdo@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 238d
I bought a new laptop with 16 GB of DDR5 (8 GB soldered and 8 GB socketed) as it was super cheap for an 8840HS, and was planning to buy a 48 GB SODIMM for 120€ but held off on it for multiple reasons, thinking "it can wait and I can make do with less memory for now"
Yeah that 48 GB stick now costs 500€ which is just 50€ short of the entire laptop...
Tangent5280@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 237d
This too shall pass - we can hope that now there is both a massive revenue opportunity in the server market as well as an abandoned consumer market ripe for the taking, some enterprising manufacturer is going to look into filling this niche. Probably someone out of China, or maybe even India if they can get their shit together in time.
demizerone@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 237d
I have 128g of Corsair ddr5 I am saving to pay for my sons tuition in 15 years.
Aljernon@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 238d
oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 238d
I mean I would still wanna do that even if it reduced costs to like $300 for a fully spec'd dream system.
Even if it cost me $300 per hit, if stop turn him into a vegetable. That'd be the best money ever spent.
Zink@programming.dev · 1 pts · 238d
I appreciate the juxtaposition between your username and this comment wanting to beat one of the universe's most useless life forms.
oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 235d
I just had a different comment this week where the name was accidentally relevant. Now I have one where it's so backward. xD
cheesybuddha@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 237d
wait until the bubble crashes and we have tons of ram in the pipeline with no dedicated buyers
Cort@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 237d
Hope you can use ECC in your boards, otherwise it'll be worthless
cheesybuddha@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 237d
Homelabbers of the world rejoice
HK65@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 236d
It's not even ECC, OpenAI bought up unfinished wafers that still need work to become proper RAM just so that others can't have it.
It will just not get made.
Tenderizer@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 235d
FFS Altman.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 6 pts · 238d
I saw 32GB of DDR4 RAM at best buy the other day for around 400 bucks. Which wasn't adding up for me at all but ok
Cort@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 237d
JFC I upgraded in July to 64gb because it was on sale for $160
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 238d
Aaaaaa
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 238d
Do it!
mechoman444@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 238d
Sam Altman has nothing to do with the current RAM shortage. Moreover, this is not the first RAM shortage. It also occurred during the earlier crypto-mining boom, and at that time no one was having public meltdowns trying to hunt down the inventor of Bitcoin.
The reason there is a RAM shortage is straightforward, the manufacturers that control the majority of production have chosen to sell primarily to a single industry because that is where the highest margins currently exist. From a financial standpoint, they have little incentive to sell to anyone else.
If you are looking for accountability, direct it at the large corporations that are deliberately allocating supply to maximize profit. They are the ones shaping the shortage, not individual tech executives.
Dogiedog64@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 238d
Now, who could be in charge of the company most well known for needing absurd amounts of RAM to make their product work?
Who goes around making hundred billion dollar deals to ensure their business has access to massive datacenters filled with GPUs that need 2000GB of RAM?
Whose company recently wanted to buy 40% of all RAM on the market, and got a letter of intent from major RAM producers who were willing to supply it, assuming they got paid?
Oh, right! SAM FUCKING ALTMAN! You're right that RAM producers are currently profit-maximizing openly and nakedly, but to call him blameless would be naive and just wrong. They wouldn't be doing so, at least not to this degree, had ChatGPT and LLMs not become the hottest new
scam bubbletech industry through his actions.mechoman444@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 237d
Sam Altman put in an order for RAM. A company is willing to supply it. That company is souly responsible for how they distribute their product. They could only supply them with a small portion of the order and be fair about it but they choose not too. 🤷
Yes Altman is not blameless but he's also not responsible.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 238d
There's also a hard drive shortage :-/
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · -9 pts · 238d
Normally, I think killing a CEO will cause no good because they're so replaceable, but I could make an exception and celebrate Sam's death.
At least until I have to look at 500 Tankie posts trying to convince western teens and facebook uncles to worship the killer.
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 19 pts · 238d
Disagree because they would behave differently if there was consequences
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 0 pts · 238d
Like when Brian Thompson was killed and his vice president took over the reigns within the hour? Like when they continued denying claims at record rates using AI? Fact of the matter is, somebody got rich off that guy dying, these sort of events won't make the rich less greedy, it will enable and embolden them so that only the most violent rise to the top.
jackr@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 238d
right, but have you considered that (targeted!) terrorism works?
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · -1 pts · 238d
No. Not one single time have I ever considered that.
Perhaps if it were a resistance to a fascist regime, but CEOs aren't a fascist regime they're just players in the game that voters have created.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 238d
I don’t think it’s tankies doing that.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 2 pts · 238d
It's not only Tankies but I'd wager it's a majority Tankies. Anything to promote western violence and the loss of engagement in the political process.
Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com · -2 pts · 238d
Tankie here. Marxists-Leninist don't condone stochastic violent acts during capitalism against Capitalists, the word we use to refer to such tactics is "adventurism", and it's criticized heavily.
Aljernon@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 238d
He's telling the truth for once. MLs don't believe that workers should have agency over their lives or the revolution. They only condone violence against capitalists if leadership ordered them to. They're very much a top down belief system hence the "Tankie" part: ie enforcing political orthodoxy with the threat of violence against the workers.
Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com · -3 pts · 238d
No. We just believe that adventurism isn't a good tactic in bourgeois dictatorship, and we distinguish it from repression of capitalists by the dictatorship of the proletariat, i.e. by the state democratically representing the workers in power.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · -1 pts · 238d
Then you don't support Russia, China, or North Korea and you're not a tankie, or you do support those entities and you're lying about their activities, in either scenario that's bullshit.
Aljernon@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 238d
You're not wrong that they support those countries but you haven't explained how that's pertinent to the topic at hand.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 2 pts · 238d
Because China, Russia, and North Korea run psyops that either directly or indirectly harm western nations, such as by endorsing, and in some cases funding and arming, people who oppose or disadvantage the governments and peoples in those nations in any way and by doing anything in their power to decrease credibility and trust of those nation's governments.
Examples: China used its TikTok military op not only to collect and categorize americans (and other nations) but to directly endorse Donald Trump for president, followed by the largest shift rightward in young voters ever recorded. China wants Anarchy in the west, China wants an opportunity to grow their own borders unchecked and become the dominant global superpower.
Aljernon@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 236d
Anarchy isn't a synonym for Chaos
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 0 pts · 236d
It is a synonym for a weakened governing body, though.
Aljernon@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 236d
Unless China is pushing for community gardens, and mutual aid drives in the West, lets try a different word.
Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com · 0 pts · 238d
What do Russia, China or the DPRK have to do with stochastic acts of violence against capitalists?
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 1 pts · 238d
If you're a Tankie
You support Russia, China, and The Dictatorship of North Korea.
That's like the definition of the word.
Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com · -3 pts · 238d
That's your definition. To me, it means essentially "Marxist-Leninist who supports actually existing socialist projects". I still fail to see what my views on some countries have to do with adventurism.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 0 pts · 238d
lmfao go search it