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by shevy-java 60 days ago
Considering how AI companies and older hardware manufacturing companies are driving up the RAM prices - thus, milking all of us ultimately - I think 3D printing needs to become the new default. And affordable too, eventually (it already is, for cheap things, e. g. plastics or PLA based printing, this is often much cheaper than ordering this from a company, but I mean with regards to computer systems too. Naturally right now we are far away from the nanoscale here, but I see this simply as a situation that will change eventually, given enough time).

Those AI companies and hardware manufacturers lost all right to further dictate and increase prices. Capitalism does not work as de-facto blackmail monopoly - or should not. If a state fails to protect the people, such as in the USA right now under the orange king, then the people need to insist on change. ALL steps against this tyranny from a few superrich needs to end.

Right now the legislation is going in the way how lobbyists want this, e. g. trying to make 3D printing illegal, but I think technology will obsolete such illegal laws eventually. Tyranny will eventually fail.

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Photolithography is way more practical, 3d printing principles are already used here in stepping of the mask.