Time to go back to film
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2026
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Oh oh....shit. That's going to hit photography hard.
So photographers get hit double.. First being replaced by AI and then forced to increase their prices because of... Again AI. What a great world we live in
I don't like having eyeballs anymore 😭.
Dw guys, you can all just sit at home and watch as your world is scrapped for parts. Just... Keep protecting, I'm sure your gov will start listening to you any second now. Ah it's just memory cards, why get into a stink about the ramifications of that...
You are talking about going against a cartel of oligopolies that have locked down the technology sector with the IP they control and who have cutthroat control over where the latest technology is deployed. What we at home can do is playact "It's back to the 90s!" and go back to the technology we had several decades ago, which is more viable than it sounds.
If they want to act like cartels with the greatest and latest, nothing is forcing people to use it. Unfortunately, the technological divide will still be there. Tech minimalism, go human, recycle old tech, we have a lot of crap we've disposed off over the years that would otherwise still run fine. To create competition, there needs to be the breeding grounds for it, and if that means having to do with what the lunar lander did, then do so and exercise that brain in the process too.
go back to the 90s
I'm ready. I'm a tech hoarder and still have ISA cards and the boards that use them 🫡
This is and underrated comment. My most recent computer was build in 2021 I start to think about ripping it apart for piece and buy refurbished computers. I am trying to get solar panels working for an apartment. I have a bad exposition I wonder if I can replace a windows(which is in the right side) I never open by a solar panel. It is harder when renting, have to be double smart and think the work to be removable .
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Glad I'm stocked on memory cards that should last me for a while.
There is, however, a bigger problem that's not addressed - manufacturers seemingly only playing nice to big corporations while screwing the end customer.
Manufacturers are supply constrained and they are basically selling to those that pay the most. Prices are above what most consumers will pay, so consumer lines become unsustainable.
The big question is what happens when they are no longer supply constrained. Will they be able to start the consumer lines back up again?
Consumer lines aren't unsustainable for them, they were able to sustain themselves with them just fine. They just aren't maximally profitable.
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It's mask off time for capitalism. Business to person sales are no longer lucrative. All the money is in company to company now. See AI companies buying out entire present and future stock of PC parts until 2030. Regular people are no longer needed in this form of society. That's why the market goes up while job numbers and employment go down. The economy can now support itself without anyone else.
Except that it seems a lot of these trades are on-paper, and not involving the actual transfer of goods. The data centres aren't getting built. The servers aren't going in them. The power isn't being supplied. The tokens are not being generated. At least... It's only a fraction of what they are all saying.
Some auditor is going to have a field day.
Yes but who actually cares? If society tolerates no actual real physical transfer of goods and leaves it all speculative, it doesn't matter. The deals are made, financial institutions accept this, realistically it doesn't matter that none of this is "real". If society decides that it's real, it's real. Just like how paper money has zero real tangible worth. It's all an agreed upon concept. The same is happening here.
The economy we had for the last handful of decades is gone. Speculative economy where only the top percentage trades with itself is where we are at and where we will stay.
What you're describing is not a structural change. What you're describing has happened before. You're describing a bubble.
I do think there is a structural change, similar to how there has been for the arrival of computers, the arrival of the internet, the arrival of covid and WFH etc. LLMs have changed how many people will work. However. They aren't able to replace workers.
The onlystructural concern I have currently is that the models and processing power become out of reach for all but giant corporations and data centres. As there are open models and much of the changes are happening across many companies and individual programmers, I don't see that happening. Perhaps the best models and training data will be out of reach but there are enough people vested in open source and proficient, that should things start to get out of reach and computing become less available, I'd expect that to change. Similar to how windows led to Linux which is now better.
It can't be completely circular. There is an end customer that will expect something for their money eventually. Right now it's driven by huge amounts of debt, but you can't be on that forever. At some point it unwinds
It seems that end point is government bailing out banks using taxes, and people are paying more for the same due to inflation, while their salaries do not catch up with the cost of living.
This seemingly happens in US right now.
Yeah, all this is illegal not because it's an infinite money glitch, but because it acts like it is while destabilizing the economy
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Its the only place left to get huge sums of money, we're in the end game of capitalism
Corporate clients buy in bulk, have supply contracts in place, can pay in advance for your capacity, etc. A direct consumer is worse in every way as a buyer.
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China will come to the rescue.
Do nothing, win
So long! And thanks for the memory.
I work in a photostore, and the prices for fast sd-cards are getting ridiculous. Every time I scan one in the cash register I am almost scared of telling them the price.
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I want to get off Mr. Huang's Wild Ride.
Don't worry, it's not like this AI bubble is dependent on cheap energy prices or anything.
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Damn. Our global economy is teetering on just in time supply chains.
Decades of nice safe cooperation and suddenly everythings fucked and now we can't trust eachother.
Its what happens when you let the mob run a country and it runs around smashing everything
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This isn't sustainable. Almost all of our infrastructure runs on computers and eventually it will reach a point where you have a computer in charge of vital infrastructure that won't be able to buy replacement part and it'll just fail.
nah all of the datacenters they build for AI, will come to use then.
they will say"Need computing? Don't worry, just rent from us, for an ever increasing and enshittifying subscription"
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So they are still making the stuff but not for the common folks?
Not sure Sony manufacture flash memory themselves. They probably just buy it and package it into memory cards.
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