A year ago I felt like I never needed to purchase hardware again. In the last few months it’s been constant. This sucks.
Big tech is gradually seizing all means of computation. Fuck that.
Western Digital just gets added to the list of companies that won’t get a penny from me. When they inevitably try and come back begging for sales from the consumer market.
While you’re here, could I ask for a short list? I’m buying a few replacement parts right now and I’m already avoiding Crucial
I’ve only got 3 at the mo. Western Digital, Crucial and Nvidia.
Nvidia is mainly because of their price gouging and general fuck you to gaming.
When do we start boycotting any companies that behave like this? We need a fucking class-action lawsuit against this behavior.
Ummm… we’re kinda being forced to boycott already so what does calling it intentional change?
Even if you boycott WD, the AI companies are spending 18x more than the entire consumer market.
This is where any sensible country would call for antitrust.
The externalities and consequences from this are going to fuck up the world economy, hard.
What does a boycott achieve, exactly? What are you suing them for, exactly?
WD? They are already not planning to sell to us.
I guess AI companies? I’m already not buying anything from them. They also supposedly operate at a loss. I guess all the AI tech bros pay them, but they aren’t easy to persuade otherwise.
Never, because the entire tech sector is a cartel and nobody else produces this tech at this capacity and capability. You basically have to completely swear off of electronics and the Internet entirely.
At this point it’d be all of them, but unless you’re running a data center buying drives by the hundreds or thousands there’s not a lot of impact you can make.
This gonna go with all of the unused nvidia cards in the corner until they can find enough electricity?
They’re going to innovate so hard with that extra security and all their inventory already sold, right?? 2x production next year, amazing new features?
Hah… Haha… Hah… Ha… sigh
At least they’re somewhat useful, as opposed to that harddrive-destroying block chain stuff a couple of years back. Chiacoin, or something?
I mean. Useful how? At least you can but drugs with crypto. Can’t buy drugs with AI.
