For all we know AMD would have just joined them.

It's just really depressing to see the global economy basically be held ransom by 3 companies just because the EU and America didn't properly slam those companies the first time. History doesn't repeat itself but there's been way too much historic poetry lately.

Every stars are aligned. We are At the top level of capitalism greed. For decades tech companies have piled up as much cash as possible sucking every dime selling their product. Now they want to rent their service instead. The best to do that is to host the service on a super computer, the user having only a low power terminal. They deliberately crippled the os to use the maximum ram and said we need to update our computer for ai and other things most don’t want, don’t need and don’t have the money to pay for it. The best move is to exchange their huge pile of cash to drain the whole market to build data centres. They now want everyone to become dependant on ai and pay them a significant part of our salary to satisfy their shareholders.

Tell me something new. We don't need scientists for that to know.

The US couldn't slam Asian businesses for price fixing if they wanted those same countries to buy American price fixed food. That's why it was a slap on the wrist. It was only political theatre.

hey, scientist here. i did an extensive study on ram prices that tracked the cost of ram between 2007 and 2026. this may not sound impressive, because all i had to do was look at the average price every year, but trust me, bro, it was difficult.

if you think your average american can read or use microsoft excel you got another thing coming.

Legit. Thank you from one scientist to another.

I wonder if anyone else is a bit of a scientist and can weigh in.

Eventually this is going to crater. Ammunition experienced a similar situation where it was being diverted to government contracts for years plus panic buying led to high prices. Then they came down again once demand normalized.

I have a meeting coming up where I have to teach a bunch of people who to do something and there's no less technical way to do it than using the Power Query function. I am dreading it because even getting someone to understand what a query is if you're not technical is a nightmare.

the user having only a low power terminal

Low power terminals that are going to have enough power to run doom locally. Sounds like retro gaming might see a boost. Along with current games that have low system requirements like Mindustry.

Query for none technicals. A shopping list you bring to the warehouse to be given all you requested for pickup.