OpenAI’s Sam Altman recently blamed memory supply chain issues on selfish users buying up RAM to run open-source AI models locally, saying it’s “quite terrible”1 for people to have “a bunch of the world’s limited supply of [DRAM] sitting in their own computer”.

That thing that happened to that UHC CEO probably should start happening to more CEOs like Sam. Saying something like what he said should be beyond “mask-off” for anyone that has been in any way a supporter of his and OpenAI. Also fuck Jensen Huang, Samsung, Micron, SK-Hynix, and any of the other hardware companies that allowed global supplies to be made as expensive as having a car suddenly need hundreds/thousands of dollar work done.

I work on peoples’ PCs and telling them that their drive or RAM has failed, and explain so many times the reason those parts cost 1/3 or more of what their entire PC cost them originally. And have to try saving any RAM I can from recycled PCs (never storage because super obvious data privacy stuff) so I can maybe help out (give to) folks that for sure aren’t in a place money-wise to afford replacing it or getting a new PC. Mostly 4GB sticks here and there for DDR4 (DDR5 is still too new), and run diags to make sure they are good. But going to get harder and harder to do it if companies that will take the PCs to be handed-off to recycling start locking up those PCs to prevent helping folks out that just need their PC to last a little bit longer until they can upgrade. If I happen to be the one taking their PC to put in our recycle bin. I try to ask permission from people that are already getting a new PC or the reason for recycle is due to actual physical damage or some major failure of the motherboard. And even just ask them if they want to have the RAM out of their previous PC for later (if it is usable for whatever they get).

Considering what he said, I am a bit pissed that the AI stuff is basically the only thing that matters. Like he (and the first image) mentions that he spoke to an employee badly, but it is almost forgotten about with the larger part pleading that people don’t think they use AI for everything. But if he can express so many repetitive things about AI, then he could address the actual human that wasn’t “using AI more”. I know the part that people are mad about is the idea of speed-running security with too much potential AI involved causing some profit drops from current and potential customers. Just kind of weirds me out how even in this plea he is using the topic of AI more than the fucked human behavior.

Thanks for your reply, wasn’t sure if it was just a new WINE mod or its own thing (just similar in some elements like prefix and dot folder stuff). It is kind of awesome that part of ReactOS is being used while the main OS is still not ready.

Is this similar to Bottles in being a front-end for WINE, a fork of WINE itself, or independent program similar to WINE? No matter which, I will have to keep it in mind for future random needs for Windows programs.

Would be really awesome to have that kind of flexibility for options. I was looking around for random solar stuff a couple months ago, and saw some articles about Anker showing off a solar panel umbrella a few years ago. Was super psyched because my parents have a deck table that the big umbrella has been messed up beyond use for years. Would be awesome to have something that large for my Solix C1000X (if compatible). But they never released it. So if China starts making these at scale, maybe something like the deck umbrella will finally come out. Really want to have options that can be multipurpose. Awnings would be very nice options like you said.