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... It's not embarrassing to still be using any Meta product? It's like being worried because you recognized the guy in front of you at the checkout line at the dildo emporium as your priest... It would be awkward if he turns around, but he's got a shopping cart of dildos too, how is he gonna judge?

Do you think it is likely for voting to create a difference? Yes, be ause I understand our political system… There is nothing constitutional about the US and how it operates anymore. You don’t seem to even understand the meaning of the words used to describe out political system… Stop asking rehrorical questions like you’re teaching people, start asking real questions so you don’t remain ignorant of how society actually works. Just ask someone else

It doesn't matter who has it, it's the one ring. It's sheer existence is too dangerous to be allowed. But everyone focuses on what they could do with the power and think they'll be able to keep it. That's why there's such pushback against opposition to datacenters, it's not just the money from the stocks, everyone pictures themselves as the only ones who gets to abuse the tech once it's built.

Yeah, it's just typical capitalism stuff. People see talk about legit refurbs and then think a dust wipe refurb isnthe same thing and get ripped off.

However, it is is not coming from someone who does this stuff at a professional level (refurbished in other words), I am not sure if I can trust it.

It’s honestly not even worth trying to use the right terminology these days…

Every seller/manufacturer uses slightly different definitions.

So to clarify, what’s good is:

A product that was sent back to manufacturer and “manufacturer refurbished” meaning that common fail points were inspected and repaired even if a failure would be emmenient but it’s still working

Pretty much anything else, would be bad.

An example of what is bad is:

“Amazon/ebay refurbished” where someone may have wiped the dust off and possibly checked to see if it turned on.

Especially for hard drives, the refurbishing is built into the purchase contract of the new drives. And since the purchaser and manufacturer both understand the refresh is proactive and the old drives still have life in them, it knocks off a percentage on the new drives and that’s where we can find deals.

I think I’ve got a 1TB that’s ~20 years old I got that way. It’s still technically in my main PC, but at this point it’s an unimportant archive drive that just doesn’t get read or wrote very often.

I’ve just literally never had a HDD or SD die tho. I don’t know why people act like they’re disposable parts of a PC still.

Yeah, that's how politicians get the insider tips, it's bribes to not go after the person who gave them the tip. If enough of the right people make enough money, then everything about it becomes legal, or at worse a fine that's less than the profits made.

Less skynet and more a surveillance state thats gonna put England and even CCP to shame. They need the hard drives because they're storing everything about us. Every time we drive by a camera, gps paths of our cell phones constant travel, every bank transaction including small purchases, every social media comment, page we view from WiFi or cellphone, all our connections to everyone else, tags for various groups. Not even just the people we know we know, they'll know who's usually next to us in traffic on commutes and when, who makes our sandwich from the deli we go to every other Tuesday, what cops would be most likely to respond to a call to our house at a certain time... Like, "skynet" is useful because everyone knows the term. The real danger is what humans will do with access to that much information on everyone, and what a normal human would do to/for a stranger to protect all their darkest secrets. Imagine if tech was 20 years ahead right now with trump in office, do you think someone like him would hesitate to start wide scale blackmail? You think they're above telling a couple thousand people in highly targeted districts that they had to vote a certain a way or else? It's not the AI we need to be scared of, it's the data.

Wild that people were down voting you. Hard drives can last decades and are replaced from enterprise servers long before they're close to failing. Especially with lowered use compared to a server, you won't see much functional difference between brand new consumer grade and used server grade. Pretty sure caches and everything are better on used server grade still anyways.

These companies are publicly traded... The people who run/own the AI companies would have been complete idiots to not invest in the hardware companies they were going to make these purchases from before making those purchases. But 100 million in Seagate stock, then announce you just signed a contract buying up supply. Your company may overpay, but you personally just made a shit ton of money. Which is the why you want your company to succeed As a bonus, the news that you're overpaying to buy up all the hard drives, doesn't hurt your company it helps it. There's no way to monetize it anyways, the product is the stock price. And this move makes the company seem confident, which raises stock price. That's not even getting into the long term problem that even if AI fails, were seeing a huge migration in computing power from individuals to private corporations. That's a big deal even if AI dies tomorrow. And they have a lot of motivation to never let us get it back.

1. Humans

2. Understanding what modern “ai” is

Non-human bots now account for 56.5% of internet traffic Traffic, not content… But still, we’re getting there

Besides telecoms not following their own generational requirements that they made up for themselves… A big issue is that each new one always seem so much better, because no one else is on it. Once adaption happens and people move to it, it free up the prior one and cuts down on the advantage.

Yeah… But you know how people are already comparing vibe coding to 40k where “priests” pray to computers and hope if they do the exact same thing they’ll get the same result they want? If we start walking down this road of even the chat or not understanding why what it did was better… Serious unintended consequences are going to be inevitable. Like, I swear nobody knows the paperclip story anymore. Instrumental convergence posits that an intelligent agent with seemingly harmless but unbounded goals can act in surprisingly harmful ways. For example, a sufficiently intelligent program with the sole, unconstrained goal of solving a complex mathematics problem like the Riemann hypothesis could attempt to turn the Earth (and in principle other celestial bodies) into additional computing infrastructure to succeed in its calculations.[2] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence I mean, we can make a very very solid argument that much of our current problems are caused by high level stock trading being done by algorithms who’s only instruction is “make numbers go up”. This shit aint even hypothetical anymore, it’s just instead of “make as many paperclips” we told it “make more money than you did yesterday”. Which is why we’re burning down the planet to make billionaires even more money

You’re acting like that’s a common scenario… There’s a few small slices of area in a minority of states where you might be legally allowed to pick, but that is not a guarantee there’s more than one option. To my knowledge most of them are artificial monopolies anyways. Like, in Perfectville your choice between any available provider is legally protected. However company A and company B made a handshake deal to draw a line down the area and not provide service on one side of the line. competitiveenergy.org/…/state-by-state-links/ Very few of those green states are for electricity

Bullshit. You really think companies in America with monoplies would lower prices just because their costs went down? I wish I lived in an America like that…

People thought they’d hang onto CDs and DVDs too…

Good luck… Even when the bubble bursts, they’re going to have an insane amount of computing power just sitting there, it will get sold off in bankruptcy proceedings, and some company will gobble it up and operate at a loss while continuing to secure future supply contracts. There’s a very real chance that we’re witnessing the slow death of home computing. The way things shake out it might end up being prohibitively expensive compared to cloud computing, and once that’s the norm they price gouge like Walmart did to destroy small businesses. Instead of dropping a couple grand for a PC every couple years, we’ll have steady contracts paying for month at a time indefinitely.