I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

Just when I started considering that maybe it's time to look at new parts, a new hurdle candy into view. My computer might graduate from elementary school before I can get a decent price on parts. Or maybe they're will never be decent prices on parts again.

I had everything in my cart.

I was waiting for Black Friday.

I get an alert saying the RAM in my cart was unavailable.

I'm thinking, okay, maybe they're out of white RAM, I'll just do black.

The $200 kit in my cart was now $1,200, but worse yet, everything but the slowest RAM was out of stock.

I decided, fuck this, fuck them, and I bought everything but the RAM.

A few days later, I told my friend my troubles, he says: "DUDE! I HAVE SPARE DDR5 in my closet!"

I tell him: "I will pay for shipping, fair value of the RAM, and 20% extra for your trouble"

The moral of this story is fuck these greedy bastards, you can train your 10T models but please leave gamers alone; they are a tiny % of the demand for DRAM chips.

P.S: Pay the kindness forward, help your fellow friends with any spare parts

This is a Christian Minecraft server

The AI industry is apparently in need of a file system check.

I normally dislike self censorship of profanity, but replacing fuck with fsck (filesystem check) is a Unix joke, and I can appreciate that.

You don't want to get shadow banned on lemmy for anti corporate speech now do you?

Eh, I hadn't bothered to read the comm rules and doing a filesystem check is a suitable pain in the ass. BTW the last word was originally shitfuckery.

This is the internet, you can't swear here.

Altman is the type of guy who pays to have his balls kicked though…

Since we've all enjoyed SaaS allowing us to pay monthly fees until death for everything from our word processor to our sleep tracker, get ready for Compute as a Service to take over everything else once none of us can afford home computing.

so happy I built a new PC last year

For a personal server, just buy a liquidated office/business workstation and add storage as needed. Probably will still be cheap since the win10 EOL has led a bunch of those machines onto auction sites.

I am currently building a server, I have five things left to get before I can use it, two 8TB HDDs, two 2TB SSDs and a SATA controller card.

I bought RAM for ut this summer a 2x 16GB Kingston kit, that kit has increased in cost by 1000SEK, insane....

This is how I feel literally every single day, and somehow every single day gives me a new reason to feel like this... I'm so sick of this timeline...

They're probably the only reason it hasn't popped yet: still searching for someone to hold the bag. But the longer they wait, the bigger the number gets and the less likely it is for them to find one. Eventually someone's going to cut their losses and it's going to be a bloodbath.

They probably don’t care. Since it drives the entire stock market up. They probably make big bucks on the other side trading derivatives on the financial market making returns that will outgrow the investments in OpenAI. It’s a convoluted version of a pump and dump. Pump up OpenAI so they can dump NVidia options.

Also OpenAi will go public soon. The dot com bubble didn’t pop until all those companies that never made a dime went public. Since investors were then able to dump their holdings into retail investors.

Just a few more billions guys, real close now! Maybe a few dozen more after that, but it's really getting there!
Oh, look a squirrel!

idk why OP didn't just link the original article. https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal

and numerous further sources at the bottom of that piece e.g. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/openais-stargate-project-to-consume-up-to-40-percent-of-global-dram-output-inks-deal-with-samsung-and-sk-hynix-to-the-tune-of-up-to-900-000-wafers-per-month