Why not Zuccerberg?
wisdom
Submitted 3 weeks ago by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to [deleted]
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TheBat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Why not both?
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Elon Musk wanted to do this, but his mom said he couldn’t.
BoJackHorseman@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s Saltman who bought 40% of world’s supply of RAM until 2029.
He is also a Zionist Jew.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Recently upgraded my servers. 256GB ddr5 each. Was 1600 moneyz altogether. Now, not half a year later, the exact same ram is 6400 now.
I bought twice the amount by accident and sent half of it back…for which I now bit my left nut off…could’ve been a free bunch of gaming PCs.
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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 3 weeks ago
Oh yeah lucky! I evened out fate, as I waited to finally buy my GPU at the absolute peak for an insanely outrageous price only to see it fall day by day since then.
So, I’m kinda at zero (dis-)advantage now 😁
StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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 3 weeks ago
Totally bonkers, yes. But chill! It all will relax in the near future and go down to just 200% more expensive than before. And then stay there. And we will be happy-ish.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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 3 weeks ago
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 weeks ago
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 3 weeks ago
There’s also a hard drive shortage :-/
little_tuptup@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
whaaat? did he really say this or is this ai?
ai is so realistic now.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You are now permanently banned from Reddit
Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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 3 weeks ago
But why not give in? Bottling up negative energy is not good for you.
Bazell@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Why hurting your hands if you can use tools to make beating more efficient?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Henry Kissinger deserves that personal touch.
StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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!”
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
What was the original quote?
thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
Came to ask the same thing.
Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Damn, that’s also true.
Fortunately Kissinger is dead!
Unfortunately, Altman is still alive.
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
That’s it. Hardly comparable with someone having to wait for the price of RAM to come down is it?
netweirdo@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
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 3 weeks ago
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 3 weeks ago
I have 128g of Corsair ddr5 I am saving to pay for my sons tuition in 15 years.
Aljernon@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
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 3 weeks ago
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 2 weeks ago
I just had a different comment this week where the name was accidentally relevant. Now I have one where it’s so backward. xD
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
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 him.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Disagree because they would behave differently if there was consequences
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
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 weeks ago
right, but have you considered that (targeted!) terrorism works?
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
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 weeks ago
I don’t think it’s tankies doing that.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
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 3 weeks ago
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 weeks ago
He’s telling the truth for once. MLs don’t believe that workers should have agency over their lives or the revolution. 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.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
Then you don’t support Russia, the 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.
cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
wait until the bubble crashes and we have tons of ram in the pipeline with no dedicated buyers
Cort@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hope you can use ECC in your boards, otherwise it’ll be worthless
cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Homelabbers of the world rejoice
HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
It’s not even ECC, OpenAI bought up unfinished stuff just so that others can’t have it.
It will just not get made.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
I saw 32GB of DDR4 RAM at best buy the other day for around 400 bucks.
Cort@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
JFC I upgraded in July to 64gb because it was on sale for $160
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Aaaaaa
Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Do it!
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s the least significant reason for beating Sam Altmann to death.