• MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
    71·
    17 days ago

    Substitute 'Open’AI for NVIDIA, not that it won’t mostly end up in their pockets, there’s this whole BS techbro financial circlejerk going on.

    • raker@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      18·
      17 days ago

      True. It’s not only them, but all the other techbros trying to make sure, that they get also the biggest load of that gigantic, orb-like circlejerk first. That bothers me the most. It’s the whole market.

      • Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nl
        7·
        17 days ago

        Funny you sayvthis, Altman’s other scam is World Orb - a creepy and actually useless “biometric scanner” that is a crypto scam under the hood.

  • UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialEnglish
    62·
    17 days ago

    It’s actually even dumber than this because it was OpenAI that made the purchase with no plan for how to actually use the wafers. NVIDIA could actually do something with them.

    • Cort@lemmy.world
      30·
      17 days ago

      Ok, how is this not illegal? Buying up all the supply to prevent competitors from buying any, even when you can’t use it yourself. There’s gotta be some anticompetitive regulation that would cover this

      • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
        39·
        17 days ago

        Gonna need a functional government with a functioning regulatory body for that.

        Edit: also, Congress seems to be able to just lasso anyone and pull them into a hearing to make a show of damn near anything. We could really use one of those for this (and many other) boondongles right now.

      • UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialEnglish
        9·
        17 days ago

        And they were even real sneaky about it by buying up from the two largest global suppliers at the same time in secret so that neither knew they were buying up the whole global supply. This probably is technically illegal, but the US doesn’t enforce shit like this.

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
      17·
      17 days ago

      The stocks who’s value is based on the purchase of ram you just made using stocks as payment? Seems perfectly logical to me.

  • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
    24·
    17 days ago

    I tried to make a new build on pcpartpicker and several times my RAM choice sold out before I could complete the build. It really opened my eyes to the state of the market

    • raker@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      14·
      17 days ago

      I don’t even wanna upgrade my PC atm, just a SATA 6 SDD as a cheap data grave, but guess what: even these cost as much as the M.2s in Sep. 2025. Though luck!

      • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
        3·
        17 days ago

        My 15ish year old pc blue screened of death on me. It had a few new parts over time but the same cpu and gpu so I had little choice but to upgrade. I figured I’d go mid range now and it will keep up with my needs for a few years to come.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
      4·
      17 days ago

      The OpenAI IOUs are all covered by NVidia’s "will invest"s. NVidia doesn’t have extra to spend around.

      What doesn’t make anything any better, of course. And it’s OpenAI on that line irl anyway. And they did in fact buy it with lots of “will invest” papers from other companies.

  • andros_rex@lemmy.world
    15·
    17 days ago

    There’s never going to be a time in my life where I will be able to afford even a modest gaming computer :(

    • The_Almighty_Walrus@lemmy.world
      10·
      17 days ago

      Pre-built machines are still going for reasonable prices but once those companies run out of old stock that’ll be done for. If you’ve got a Costco membership they have some IBuyPower PCs for a pretty reasonable price. I got a ryzen 7, RTX5070 and 32GB of ddr5 for $1600. They have an Intel ultra 5, RTX5060, and 32GB ddr5 for $1,099.

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
      6·
      17 days ago

      sure there is.

      steal it.

      order ddr5 ram. return ddr3 ram as ddr5 and tell them it was opened and the wrong thing.

      it’s no different than what AI fascists are doing right now.