WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron [GN]
Well, that's just really shitty.
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in reply to i_am_not_a_robot • • •That literally plays into the concept of big business having a monopoly
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in reply to djsaskdja • • •Digital Painting. Creative Freedom.
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in reply to CybranM • • •Affinity is free as of a couple weeks ago. And there's talk of a Linux native version being considered iirc.
Requires a free license, so the old adage about you being the product probably applies.
CybranM
in reply to dethedrus • • •Oh is it? TIL
Now if only they could make a Lightroom alternative Id be really happy
Powderhorn
in reply to djsaskdja • • •Prove_your_argument
in reply to coyotino [he/him] • • •Like everything else in this world, we need to wait for HBM to crash or for a competitor to get massive funding for DRAM when it becomes more profitable.
Companies only exist to seek profit, and HBM is way more profitable than anything they made for consumers.
It's possible this will precipitate a reduction in HBM costs until they come down to consumer levels, then we might end up with HBM instead of (G)DDR.
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in reply to coyotino [he/him] • • •mesa
in reply to coyotino [he/him] • • •Phones as well. Each increase in the nand/chips makes phones and ANY consumer electronics that use it much more expensive.
It doesnt help when most devices that we buy are not designed to be repaired.
cecilkorik
in reply to coyotino [he/him] • • •There are still some factors providing weight on the other end of that lever. Valve is doing good things with Steam Deck and the popularity of it is keeping developers supporting lower spec hardware. Remote play codecs (both Steam's own and Moonlight/Sunshine) reduce the need to have more than one capable gaming computer as you can just stream from the one you do have to any others. Raspberry Pi is a great way to access non-gaming computing cheaply. Arduino, even though the company itself is kind of doing some shit, still has an ecosystem big enough to survive even if the company itself completely sabotages it. And of course the used/surplus PC market is thriving, even more than ever before with Windows 11 forcing millions of PCs into early retirement for no good reason. They're still perfectly capable machines that will run Linux without an issue and you get them cheap as a song or even free if you play your cards right.
I'm not saying any of this to dispute anything you're saying, I'm just pointing out these resources we still have so that we can take advantage of them whi
... Show more...There are still some factors providing weight on the other end of that lever. Valve is doing good things with Steam Deck and the popularity of it is keeping developers supporting lower spec hardware. Remote play codecs (both Steam's own and Moonlight/Sunshine) reduce the need to have more than one capable gaming computer as you can just stream from the one you do have to any others. Raspberry Pi is a great way to access non-gaming computing cheaply. Arduino, even though the company itself is kind of doing some shit, still has an ecosystem big enough to survive even if the company itself completely sabotages it. And of course the used/surplus PC market is thriving, even more than ever before with Windows 11 forcing millions of PCs into early retirement for no good reason. They're still perfectly capable machines that will run Linux without an issue and you get them cheap as a song or even free if you play your cards right.
I'm not saying any of this to dispute anything you're saying, I'm just pointing out these resources we still have so that we can take advantage of them while we still can and protect our continued access to them. It's clear the claws are coming out to start locking down consumer computing, but people need to know there is a resistance to it and there are ways to resist. And we should.
CubitOom
in reply to Powderhorn • • •I'm of the idea of not buying new tech ever again, with some exceptions on use case and rarity.
Instead, i'm a proponent of only buying 2nd hand or business surplus.
These companies don't deserve our money, and the average use case doesn't require the latest and greatest.
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in reply to Powderhorn • • •Shame they are going to send you a "battery protection update" that makes your phone last 45 minutes between charges on year three.
I'd bet against any plan that requires Google to not fuck you over for a whole 7 years.
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in reply to B0rax • • •corsicanguppy
in reply to Powderhorn • • •So a guy reads from an outline or script into a YouTube clip we can view (after ads) with a transcript we can then summarize with an LLM so we can replicate the outline or script originally used?
The downvote and next buttons are, like, right there.
Powderhorn
in reply to corsicanguppy • • •Not really sure where you're coming from. If you don't want to watch a video ... like, maybe, just don't? I was attempting to provide solutions. And "a guy reads from a script" is literally how videos are made, so that's a weird flex.
Steve has really come into his own as EIC in the past two years, and the channel (which I used to ignore) is much better for it. Come for the stats, stay for the biting political commentary.
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in reply to corsicanguppy • • •He also publishes written articles, but not for all videos, and not usually at the same time as the video.
Edit: also, there's more to the video than reading from a script. You'd know this if you, uh, watched the video.
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in reply to B0rax • • •TL:DW;
Mr. Nexus still thinks its news that, under capitalism, production of luxury goods will always be sold to the highest bidder and not "the masses"
I didn't watch it either. But its about Micron no longer selling consumer ram in favor of the AI industry customer.
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Oh wow, I got all the important parts didn't I?
Crazy....
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2025-12-06 01:19:56
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Oh wow, I got all the important parts didn't I?
Crazy....
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Seefra 1
in reply to nagaram • • •Thanks! So literally a nothing burger.
I hate YouTube clickbait.
boonhet
in reply to Seefra 1 • • •Well I mean the 3 DRAM manufacturers that matter all made the decision to ramp down consumer RAM manufacturing. OpenAI alone is buying up 40% of all global DRAM production.
Given all the financial fuckery going on with OpenAI and the AI and hardware industries in general, I'm pretty sure this is intentional price fixing.
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Seefra 1
in reply to boonhet • • •Powderhorn
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in reply to Powderhorn • • •It's just that society has much bigger problems than the price of ram sticks.
Like the price of housing, the price of food, transportation..
I don't find this even worth mentioning, that's just it.
Powderhorn
in reply to Seefra 1 • • •So, you're going with the slippery slope: There are so many other problems, why worry about a new one?
I'm homeless and struggle to afford food, so I'm aware of the larger issues in play. The problem here is that we're adding a new one atop societal decay. Handwaving each new fuckup away is how we succumb to a future without agency.
Now is the time to be shouting from the rooftops, not giving up.
boonhet
in reply to Seefra 1 • • •Nothing in modern society works without computers, so everything will get a bit more expensive with DRAM and NAND chips multiplying in price. Hell, wages may go down at low margin businesses dependent on computing.
It's not apocalyptic by any means, but it's just more salt in many wounds.
For us gamers, RAM is a once every 5 or 10 years expense. If you buy it more often, you're just wasting money most likely. Businesses may buy a lot of new computers every year, or they might use cloud compute services that will also get more expensive.
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in reply to nagaram • • •So there's three companies that make almost all the DRAM and they're now all ramping down production of consumer RAM.
They've also done price fixing in the past.
I don't think much math needs to be done.
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in reply to B0rax • • •Here's the actual TL:DW (it's not that long, and I did watch it)
Steve describes what's happened (Micron shuts down Crucial their consumer-facing "store brand"), mocks their stupid press release, and discusses the nuances involved, will they still be selling to all the rebadged memory resellers who use Micron as a supplier? Unclear, their reps and defenders say yes, their PR and the context implies not really, unless those resellers want to get into a bidding war with AI datacenters that they're not going to win. Steve not-so-subtly implies that this seems awfully sort of kind of like more price fixing from a small group of oligopolist companies who have in fact been convicted in the past of price fixing, while explictly stating that he is, of course, for legal reasons, definitely NOT implying that in any way shape or form. Some much deserved ranting about how shitty and frustrating this situation is is mixed in throughout and he goes over details about exactly how much prices have risen already, pointing out all the different devices that require some form of high speed mem
... Show more...Here's the actual TL:DW (it's not that long, and I did watch it)
Steve describes what's happened (Micron shuts down Crucial their consumer-facing "store brand"), mocks their stupid press release, and discusses the nuances involved, will they still be selling to all the rebadged memory resellers who use Micron as a supplier? Unclear, their reps and defenders say yes, their PR and the context implies not really, unless those resellers want to get into a bidding war with AI datacenters that they're not going to win. Steve not-so-subtly implies that this seems awfully sort of kind of like more price fixing from a small group of oligopolist companies who have in fact been convicted in the past of price fixing, while explictly stating that he is, of course, for legal reasons, definitely NOT implying that in any way shape or form. Some much deserved ranting about how shitty and frustrating this situation is is mixed in throughout and he goes over details about exactly how much prices have risen already, pointing out all the different devices that require some form of high speed memory that are going to be affected by this. Some further discussion suggests the possibility this might just be a shot across the bow to let the other memory companies who are totally not colluding with Micron and never would consider doing that to let them know it's absolutely time to not collude about anything like that because of course they're all paying very close attention right now. So we'll have to see what else develops, but basically he's letting everyone know he's on it, and he's paying very close attention too.
I might've read between the lines a bit in a few places, I have some of my own strong feelings about what's going on here, so I apologise if I inadvertently mixed in any of my own interpretation by accident.
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Rentlar
in reply to cecilkorik • • •I watched it yesterday and only a couple things I have to add.
First is that the bipartisan CHIPS act basically shovelled taxpayer money into Micron's pockets to increase their manufacturing, but they are reducing their consumer output anyway, so Steve's point is consumers are not getting anything out of the subsidy they made.
Second is, since any potential increase in production is to cater to their largest data centre customers only, Steve is suggesting that this could be part of a push to move people to subscription-based cloud computing by making personal computing tha you buy and own unaffordable.
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in reply to Powderhorn • • •I'm saying don't post to videos.
Posting articles with embedded videos is OK. But just pasting a god damn video link is low effort, and not welcome. It's poor lemmyquite
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in reply to quick_snail • • •imagine 4 things that could be posted:
do you have a sufficient grasp of how the internet works to understand that the effort involved in posting a link is exactly the same in all 4 cases?