They’re not law as long as you can afford the lawyers and legal costs to fight them. Which is, of course, the problem and the system working as designed.

Get the SSDs pronto…

Hmpff, when I added the image it overwrote the original URL, not exactly intuitive, probably makes sense for memes.

Sorry, thought I had, apparently I don’t understand the post creation mechanism as well as I thought. Thanks for the catch, I’ll edit the text.

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.

why AI needs RAM like VRAM I get it but why RAM?

They use the same silicon wafers and OpenAI just made a deal to secure 40% of the global supply of wafers from both SK Hynix and Samsung (2 of the three large providers) ostensibly for project Stargate server farms. It gets so much worse, they made both deals on the same day without advising the other company, and have not provisioned any way to actually use (make chips from) the wafers. It looks more like they’re just trying to keep them out of the hands of competitors. See here for the gory details.

From there the laws of supply and demand and panic buying by everyone else took over, micron (the third big one) dropped out of the consumer market because they’re gonna make bank in the server market as the only unencumbered company. Consumer general purpose computer customers are royally boned. This will flow through into the SSD market as well.

TLDR: Fuck AI in general and Fuck ‘OpenAI’ and Sam Altman in particular. If you pray, pray that this deal gets a legal injunction in South Korea, coz you know the US will just applaud this shitfuckery.

Duh, civilized countries make education free because it;s a net win for the country. If your politics makes that a bad, dunno, sorry for your loss…