Using shear willpower, I haven’t upgraded shit (read “computer components”) since AI hit the fan, but now I literally need more storage. Period. So, like I used to do before we decided to throw media literacy, critical thinking, hardware and software craftsmanship out the window, I went to my go to hardware store and an 16TB 3.5’ internal HDD still costs $900 new. Wai. What has the little person done to deserve this. Whatever. I’ll watch some Black Mirror now.

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    13 days ago

    how? because future storage has been bought up. they’ve paid with borrowed money from predicted profit, to pre-book unmanufactured ram and drives, to put in unassembled servers, to run in unbuilt datacenters. and also they borrowed the money from the people building the datacenters.