Good thing AI sucks
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2026
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Back in my day, we downloaded ram. 8GB at a time.
Going to be fucking hilarious when all the western companies get fucked by China taking over the market they don't seem to care about.
Don't count on China. They are going to invade Taiwan next year and the global trade embargo will be a rounding error to the destruction of the tmsc factories during that war. Or they will capture the fabs and prohibit export to the US. Loose loose for us.
"China, a country that hasn't invaded another country in 50 years, is going to invade this country" said the country that invades a country once a decade.
They've been going to invade Taiwan next year for the last 30 years
AI is the last great bubble.
And it, like all bubbles, will pop.
You are already seeing the people in the know flee the field.
You see reports that every company that has adopted it has at best changed nothing, at worst lost money on it.
Outside of the psychotic linked in CEO bubble, literally no one wants AI. And every day its generating more and more hate due to its halucinations, mistakes, and bullshit.
Its garnering massive negative attention for its use, and for anyone stupid enough to adopt it at this point (cough intel cough)
Its a dying star, and people are frantically trying to harvest the last bits of warmth from it before going off in search of new horizons.
I can only assume you haven't used it for anything it's good at lately. The truth is somewhere in the middle. Just like we still have websites after the dot com bubble, there will still be LLMs after the AI bubble pops.
And they told me I was crazy for putting 64 gigs into my machine back in early 2021. I "only" paid about 200 USD
I knew somehow similar thing would happen in coming years. Alas, I had neither money nor requirement for that.
Same
I can't wait till these companies shutter their AI shit and that supply gets dumped back into the market
Knowing real life some other party will juice it and ride the ram shortage for another few years, just keeping the supply as a speculative income stream.
I‘m switching hobbies to gunpla. No one has managed to put DRAM in an airbrush to the best of my knowledge.
i mean, i thought you were wanting to save money..
Just you wait. Ai airbrushes are coming soon
Yet
Go ahead, make a lucrative market for consumer ram, see how fast china figures out how ot start filling that need :)
I’m fairly certain that spinning up RAM fabs isn’t super quick nor something that doesn’t require the most cutting edge tech.
China is definitely ahead of the US in a lot of tech, but unless they do invade Taiwan they might not have quite a deep enough bench.
And if they complain, just shout "free market" at them
Go Go Gadget zswap!
Jokes on you...
I'd just point out that now might be a good time to add a whole-house surge arrester and/or get a bunch of new surge arresting power strips for your hardware. They have a useful life measured in joules dissipated so replace them if they're old too or your cheap RAM (among other things) may let out the magic smoke one day.
That is ok we will get more videos of cats making lattes.
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