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If your stated goal is to make computing into a “utility” (aka subscription) you can only obtain from Big Tech and if your entire industry is comprised of rentiers, it makes perfect sense to also make actually owning a general computing device as expensive as possible.

As far as Big Tech is concerned, this is a feature, not a bug.

It’s capitalists acquiring capital and pricing it out of the reach of those they want to make dependent on them.

Also: fuck these people. social.heise.de/@heiseonlineen… social.heise.de/@heiseonlineen…

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2026-03-27 14:42:00

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Processor shortage to become acute in the coming months

AMD and Intel are apparently shifting their production to server CPUs. Price increases are looming for desktop PCs and notebooks.

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Processor shortage to become acute in the coming months

Mark Mantel (heise online)

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Aral Balkan
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(It’s because of this shit that when we launch the Small Web this year, I’m not going to be able to price the servers as low as I would have wanted to (and could have done, say, last year). It’s not because of inflation but because of this shit raising the price of virtual private servers. Because fuck the small guy trying to make something that’s owned and controlled by people instead of owning and controlling people.)
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RichBartlett
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is there any chance that when the AI bubble bursts there'll be data centres worth of hardware being sold cheap by liquidators? Doesn't help now but I heard someone say a good business plan for 2027 was "find a use for loads of cheap GPU servers"
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Aral Balkan
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@RichBartlett Who knows 🤷‍♂️ Such a colossally wasteful and destructive system.
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Niels Abildgaard
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I might be able to hook you up with some cheap VPSes hosted in Denmark if interested... we are working with a publicly owned data center that is trying to break into the private sector and care about digital/data soverignty. Let me know if relevant...
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Aral Balkan
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@nielsa Thanks, Niels :) Always happy to look at alternatives. (It would need to have an API, though, and almost instant provisioning.)

Please feel free to DM details or ask for my Signal or email mail@ar.al – thanks again :)

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Niels Abildgaard
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Yeahh we don't fit those criteria (yet), but could maybe build something that fits if you can share the requirements
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Aral Balkan
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@nielsa Once I have it working with Hetzner, maybe I can demo it for you and show you the code (it’s free software, of course). Would probably be easier :)
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Albert Cardona
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Seems like a business opportunity for alternative chip makers? While the cost to entry seems huge for single-nanometre chipsets, surely less modern chips (i.e., thicker) can be manufactured again for profit?
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Cadmus 🌲
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No doubt this will also be worsened by the helium shortage from the illegal #IranWar.
#iranwar
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Utopiah (Fabien Benetou)
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well the good news is that if you are privileged enough to already have a "proper" computer (my laptop is 8 years old, intel Core i7) then honestly for most "normal" tasks... you probably don't even need a new one anyway.

I'm not saying it's OK, only trying to highlight the fact that IMHO we reached peak CPU/GPU for the normal users already.

If you're not editing 8k videos or batch processing millions of images but rather "just" browsing the Web to read, pay your bills or editing a presentation then honestly "old" hardware is probably "good enough".

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CounterVariable
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good. Having read the amd64 manual. I can decisively say that it's a good thing that they're leaving the consumer industry. x86 has decades of legacy bloat that makes it chug energy. This will give newer more efficient CPU architectures a chance in the spotlight.

Any computer brand that thinks that consumers are not worth selling to have sealed their own coffin.

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Ken Milmore
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I wondered when CPUs would become scarce too. Can we just call it a semiconductor crisis now?
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Megan Lynch (she/her)
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They've also made landlines rare, endangered publicly-owned postal services in many countries, and attacked and defunded libraries. Those of us who know how to use older tech will still have trouble relying on it.
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Kiki Buber
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Especially given that the typical circa 2010 office worker’s computing needs could be met with a 100.00 device today.
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