Yep. Here we go. Gamer Nexus reporting on the RAM situation
https://youtu.be/9A-eeJP0J7c
The main reason I've been on this topic so much recently is because I know how literally all of the technology today is dependent on silicon. There is no other option. Silicon manufacturers have the entire modern world at their whim. They have the raw supply chain, the technical knowledge, and the facilities to produce it all. Everything is a computer now. Phones, cars, refrigerators, industrial farm equipment, watches, security cameras, etc. They all need a processor and memory because they aren't just basic microcontrollers anymore that are programmed once and run as independent systems. We are used to systems with complex interfaces and operational options. Make a change and save user settings. That isn't stored on batteries anymore but NAND flash. Now add Internet connectivity.
And given the history of memory manufacturers being caught multiple times for fraud and price fixing, it seemed inevitable they would continue running their racket. Who would dare stop them? This is a technocracy age now.
I try not to be a doomer, but I work in this industry and every day I wonder how feasible it would be to become completely independent from tech in this day and age. So many people work in this industry. I've grown more distant with colleagues over two years now seeing how government collusion is going on and the trajectory of things to come, yet none of my coworkers care. Not even politics. Even just casual AI use they think is harmless fun. Tech is cool so we are cool by association. I see tech as tools for people to do cool things with, not the tech itself. The people should be the focus. They haven't been for a long time though. When you value objects over people, you lose all humanity. Empathy does not increase the bottom line. Capitalism begets hypercapitalism. We all suffer for it.
I believe in people, I really do, but I also believe the wickedness in some people is real as well. They are two sides of one coin and cannot exist alone. And yet, as bleak as it seems, I believe we will overcome in time.
And more fuel for the fire.
https://youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0
If the end goal for these companies is to end consumer access to computing technologies only to sell them as services, like how the housing market has been going for a long time, then we need government regulation more than ever to prevent that. Representative governments should not be allowing consolidization of corporations, especially with such dependent offerings, to monopolize entire industries because it is a hazard to public development and maintainability. Outside of govs blocking deals and prosecuting top level executives for collusion, the employees would need to rise up and starve the beast of air to put an end to it. That is a harder and riskier route. Consumer boycotts won't work. Greed is a powerful enemy.
In the end, we may get the Cyberpunk future that some of us wanted.
Suda synth mode :neobot: :asexual_flag: :demisexual_flag: