- cross-posted to:
- retrogaming@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- retrogaming@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43693666
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The headline blaming it all on AI seems misleading given the owner explicitly blames leechers in the community. Selfish chuds were routinely bypassing download limits and then had the gall to add their own paywalls without contributing anything back.
AI datacenters buying up the hardware is why their hosting costs increased. Worsening the problem significantly.
AI datacenters buying up the hardware is why their hosting costs increased. Worsening the problem significantly.
I’m sorry but this is bullshit. For basic storage you absolutely don’t need a lot of RAM or SSDs, older gen hard drives are extremely easy to find and very cheap. People have been hypnotized into believing they absolutey definitely need the latest gen of hardware, without realizing it’s useless, and it’s the only kind of hardware that knows shortages and high prices.
edit : okay seems i’ve overplayed my hand a little here. My personal experience comes from buying used hardware which is still going pretty cheap but obviously that’s a dicey sell for professional hosting.
Dude, in case you weren’t paying attention the last two weeks, HDDs are practically already sold out through their expected 2026 output. I is not just ran and ssds.
Where have you been?
A 2tb hard drive I bought about a year ago is now twice as expensive.
I’m sorry but this is bullshit.
Honestly , I didn’t even know about this site till today! So if enough donors hit the site to pick up at least $6K, will that site stay online? …cause I will definitely donate…no questions…just not all of $6K/month…that is crazy…
Too late now. There is a subreddits trying to archive it all though. Owner of Internet Archive doesn’t seem thrilled about it though.
That’s sad…I wish I knew about this beforehand. This sucks…
Yeeeeaaahhhh this one hits hard
There’s a concerted effort across many dataholders (at least /r/dataholders for sure) to make a full site wide backup across at least 3 copies across volunteers machines before it shuts down.
Alongside the backup team, another team is working on the best way to distribute to others after that (magnet links, archive.org, etc.).
390TB?! That’s almost enough to install CoD!
But still not enough to install every single expansion for Sims 4.
Holy fuck, this sucks.
And Sam Altman wonders why we hate AI. And this isn’t even at the top of the list of why we hate them, but it’s a really good reason.
But it’ll be safe somewhere, right? Maybe one day, when/if the world is back to normal, it could come back…
Well this sucks. I mainly used them to get roms so I could play games with retroachievements
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Yeeeeaaahhhh this one hits hard
