The bubble cannot burst fast enough. I’m tired of these higher hardware costs because of a feature that nobody wants.
It’s not really something that no one wants though… Lemmy is loudly against it, but in real life we have tons of people actually asking for it all the time. Hell at work they had to setup a company AI provider account because people using their own subscriptions was happening too much.
It sounds conspiratorial to say it seems like they are trying to crash the consumer market so that computing will be entirely dependent on their services, but I mean…
It’s classic rent seeking. We will own nothing, just lease a low-powered client device from our phone carrier or ISP and do everything in the cloud with AI.
That seems to be the plan from these megacorps anyways.
I think that seems obvious, not conspiratorial.
They want to make their services cheaper for them to run, and they want to sell them for more money, while buying up hardware so nobody else can compete with them or not depend on them.
I was thinking on that yesterday.Mass local storage affordable? No no no, better to drive those prices way up so that we can sell you “cloud” services instead.
My company is needing to go away from external storage for local only backups, as 2,4" 4TB HDDs are shit and unreliable and 4TB SSDs (like Samsung T5 Evo) are going from 200€ to 600€ (per disk. And we need 3 of those).
Instead we are pivoting to S3(-compatible)-Cloud as the main off-site storage.
I am certainly not thrillee but on the otger side, customers arent willing to lug around 3,5" HDD cases so…What else is there?
They are trying and they are succeeding. But the bright side is - it’s about resources. Storage, computation. You can run most useful things on an RPi. I suppose home PC market will become more similar to 80s again. Less power, more dreaming.
Optical drives next I guess lol
What’s even going on anymore
I read news of SATA SSDs spiking in price just a few hours ago. Gonna go to sleep now, expecting a spike in floppy disk prices when I wake up and punch cards tomorrow evening.
Didn’t Samsung say that they weren’t making consumer Sata ssds anymore? Jfc we really are going to the whole “you own nothing”.
Unless they use IP to prevent new producers from entering the market, there should be a response eventually.
HDDs are precision machinery, of course, but not lost alien technology only old big companies can make.
Enshittification, but on a massive scale.
I’m saving up now to afford the lease on a nice certified pre-owned Dell in a couple years. My buddy Dave works over at the dealership so I should be able to lock in a good rate. And hey, with their super lease-to-own options maybe I’ll be able to keep it at the end! That’d be nice you know… something to hand down to the kids when they’re old enough for their computing license. Fingers crossed! 🤞
I wish all of our infrastructure weren’t built around needing computers. I’m lucky my small community is typewriter-friendly, so I can get most of my daily tasks done without ever getting behind the wheel of a mouse.
As others, my basic home lab NAS plans are grounding to a stop because of worsening prices. Next up, phones are going to be even more expensive. Video game console price increases again
How tf are hdds going up in price
Did the data centers somehow buy up all the sdds and decided nah we need more, lets buy up all the hdds too
Like ???
At this rate i gotta start grabbing my old drives to reuse because apparently 2010 equipment is back on the plate or smth
It’s all about the Pentiums!
Dude that steam machine going to end up costing $5,000 for a $500 pc.
If they already got the supplies, they could leverage the situation in their favour
You know they haven’t.
4% is hardly a spike in the scheme of things. That’s just inflation when things aren’t really coming down in price any more.
I bought a drive a year or so ago and was surprised how expensive it was. At some point the price just stopped dropping. Presumably there’s a limit on how cheap you can make a spinning rust drive before it just doesn’t work any more.
Theory: the push to get everyone and everything on clouds where they can control it just “happens” to coincide with this development.
Really?
CAN’T WE HAVE NICE THINGS FOR ONCE (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
Great, now computers in general are just going to be stupid expensive
First SSDs and now HDDs too?
Well if you can’t get SSDs, what are you going to use for storage? I doubt tape drives are best as daily drivers.
Hosting a federated site on calculators and old gaming consoles to become trendy
Is this like the last wave before the entire thing collapses or what?
Oh my sweet summer child
It seems like I’ll soon have to use my DVD burner yet again. Now only if I found one for my ThinkPad, as it’s one of the last models that still had an option for it.
