If they stopped now yeah, but those are rookie numbers. They’re gonna evaporate way more money than that before they finally crash and burn.

I think it’s negative 80 billion, lmao

Hate to break it to you (or your son), but the kind pf RAM theyve got in that datacenter is not compatible with your son’s computer.

It’s essentially worthless for any purpose other than the type of GPUs they put in a LLM data center. That’s part of why their business is so dumb.

The reason RAM prices have skyrocketed is because the limited number of RAM fabrication facilities have mostly converted their setup to produce the type of RAM that only works for slop instead of the consumer grade stuff.

So your son and I are both gonna need to wait for those RAM fabrication facilities to realize that the people ordering years worth of their work don’t actually have the money to pay for their order. At that point they will likely convert the fabrication facilities back to normal RAM production, and a couple of years after thar happens RAM prices will begin to approach sensible levels again.

I am very excited to buy some of the large HDDs currently being hoarded by the slop mongers when they soon eat shit tho… I’ma build me a fat RAID.

Cool. Tell the tech leaders that I say “suck my dick”

Let me get a 5.25” drive

Basically, yeah

I do assume that, and am still somehow constantly subjected to dissapointment

I would also not be surprised, but i was very pleasantly surprised with Tuesday, so I’m trying to be optimistic.

I’ve also been writing my representatives and telling them that we need to see consequences for the oligarchs. Hopefully I’m not the only one, and hopefully they’ve got the stones to do what needs to be done.

They need to create a deterrent effect by administering actual consequences. That’s the only way the ruling class will adjust their future behavior. Blood for blood.

I mean, anyone who didn’t automatically assume that they would do this is either incredibly gullible or massively uninformed.

I can see two potential explanations:

1. Hubris on the part of the tech giants. We already know they’re hubristic, it’s possible that they thought they could actually make it intelligent. (This seems even more likely when you understand the “spiritual” beliefs of the people building the datacenters. The “T” in TESCREAL tells us a lot about how these dumbasses think).

2. Surveillance apparatus of the state. Would the state want to do this? Yes, 100%. Can the state afford to use and maintain this? Absolutely not.

So, I’m personally leaning towards Option 1 with a small side of option 2

Im hoping that there’s some accountability this time around

We’ll see what happens, but theyve really pissed people off good this time around

Awesome, then you already have all of the knowledge you’ll need to stand up your own private instance (and troubleshoot if needed)!

https://docs.searxng.org/admin/installation-searxng.html#installation-basic

Let me know how it goes

Fourtunately there are free options that dont habe AI, ads, sponsored content, or steal your data.

SearXNG ftw!

Im down

Ok cool, I set mine up on Mint and it was super easy

Are you familiar with Docker? (If not it’s cool, it’s very easy to learn)

Not off the top of my uead, but i could probably find one.

What OS do you use?

Yeah, my thinking is that violence (and the accompanying glee from the public) would have a deterrant effect on the other oligarchs for a generation or so.

Kinda like how, after seeing the reaction to Luigi’s vigilantism, Blue Cross very quickly walked back their plans to put time constraints on their coverage of anesthesia.

It’s not necessarily my favorite path, but history tells us that it is an effective one.

How about seperating them from their heads & their money?

What fucking boom?

SearXNG

There are public instances, or you can self-host it.

Its a “meta search engine”, meaning that it aggregates, and reorganizes results from the indexes of whichever search engines you want (after removing AI, Ads, and sponsored content from those results).

You could set it to index only Google if you wanted, and you’d basically have pre-enshitified google. I have about 20 indexes active in my personal instance, but they have ~100 indexes that you can use, allowing you to see results that wouldn’t turn up on Google or DDG.

It’s free, and it works better than Google ever has.

I had been searching for a specific rare game ROM for literally years, to no avail. I ran one SearXNG querry, and found the ROM from the 2nd link on page 1 (that’s right, pages, none of this infinite scroll rigmarole).