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The only thing the US could feasibly implement is forcing micron to allocate a certain amount of its production for consumer use

Why? Why is consumer use vs corporate use a higher and better priority meriting such an intrusive regulation?

Because extreme corporate use, that is, what is happening now where a majority of supply is locked up ahead of time via B2B back-room deals, is anti-consumer. Unregulated, it is easy to see how this could lead to a perpetual "rent everything" dystopian environment for consumers.

Every use of DRAM is a corporate use, with the best consumer-friendly examples like Apple’s efforts to hold down prices (until today) being thanks to “back room deals”. Nobody’s buying some DRAM to build a memory stick in their garage.

Apple, Raspberry Pi, Supermicro, and OpenAI all have the same claim to supply you do: you can buy it with money, with the seller being allowed to charge what they want. In fact, high prices are going to be the only way to stimulate supply and encourage the billion dollar investment in additional memory fabs. Price controls or other supply-killing mechanisms are known not to work - it’s Econ 101.


You ignored the part where I mentioned "extreme" and "locked up." To be fair I wasn't necessarily clear what those meant. I'm specifically referring to the deal(s) that OpenAI signed which reserved an outsized chunk of the memory supply, for what is apparently speculative future hardware that hasn't been built yet, or at least to build hardware that no consumer or business will ever be able to physically purchase.

Hopefully you'll agree that there's a difference between even a large buyer like Apple reserving a large chunk of DRAM supply to put in their products that they sell to consumers, and the anti-competitive behavior by OpenAI that I describe above.


It's weird, they still try to market it as a machine you can play games on. They make sure a lot of games make it over. It's just never the new cool ones, it's always stuff like a resident evil game from a few years ago or death stranding

It's because the hardware can't really handle the latest and greatest games unless you get the top end hardware. Their GPU innovation is on letting you run an AAA game from 5 years ago on a tablet.

at least stallmans "pers" makes sense and is grokable after seeing it a few times

True, but even that I really just can't see catching on.

I love the lack of a center console touch screen precisely so I can add one I made myself with a raspberry pi and some cool shit from adafruit

I'm surprised I haven't seen a generic "turn a raspi into carplay" firmware or anything of that sort.

There have been attempts but most of them kinda suck. One of them is a webapp and another requires you to install android

Entertainment, telemetry, weapons systems?

I was moreso thinking music, gps, and control of the cars ac/heating. Maybe also the control of some LED strips for decoration. Also, random sensor readouts would be cool. Sure, most cars have thermometers but how many cars have geiger counters?

Weapons systems do sound pretty sick though



I don't like trucks, but I might get this solely because it's the only thing like it right now. Honestly half the reason I want one is because I'd love to cram a raspberry pi and some cool shit in there to make a custom "smart car"

Once again, democratic centralism proves superior

>infect cats

No! We must stop this at all costs

>and people

Eh, all right then. If it takes the cats out at least we'd be going with them


Could also be a typo. Unlikely on QWERTY, but if JdeBP uses Dvorak or especially Workman that's more likely than JdeBP going out of their way to misgender a man with an obscure neopronoun

A typo? Twice in the same post? In both places where "he" would normally appear? Localized entirely within your kitchen?

Yeah when I made the comment I only saw the first one. Still don't think it's impossible

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You’ll give that poster ten thousand dollars if they post they made a typo? Do yuo give money for all typos

Sounds like a great opportunity to get the original commenter in on the scam. "Psst. Say you indeed made a typo, and I'll split the spoils with ya!"

It wouldn't truly be The Internet without a little bit of Tough Guy Posturing, I suppose. :)


I've made people do a lot of things for like $100.

I'm sure you'd do that and much more for $10k, lol!


I would love to get paid for my terrible posts

I wish elvis was still around. I don't want everything vim has but I like syntax highlighting and other conveniences


Is still around, at least for some values of "around".

Elvis, at its latest release (2.2.0) is a required part of Slackware, part of the A (essential system) package series. I have it installed on my system, alongside Plasma 6.7 and kernel 7.1.


I suppose, but you can only install it via the AUR or nixpkgs on linux, and 2 out of the 4 BSDs no longer have ports. Sure, you can compile from source but when it's that old I consider such a state effectively no longer around

> you can only install it via the AUR or nixpkgs on linux

I just said that it comes already installed (because is a required, essential part of the system) in Slackware.

Slackware is a Linux distribution, just as Arch or NixOS.

So, install Slackware, and elvis comes bundled and installed in your Linux.


I mean, if that's the case, then there's an argument to be made that SCCS is still a valid VCS because it comes with FreeBSD

I just learnt it the other day, as well. Granted, it was from chapter 1 of "Learning the vi and vim Text Editors" but shhh

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