[thelastgallon]

When people talk about AI investments of trillions of dollars, its never mentioned how high a price we are paying at a planetary scale in externalities. Billions of people are now paying a lot more for these components, memory, ssd, cpu; all these costs must be factored into the total cost of AI. AI companies are being subsidized at the expense of consumers. The current supply chains were built for consumer demand, which is hijacked by the AI grifters.

Same a consumers (car drivers) subsidizing businesses (trucks). Road damage is almost entirely caused by trucks, 4th power of weight, but the cost is borne by us.

[Adachi91]

True, I've been searching for 2 weeks now for components to get a PC back online. I suspect the VRM blew in my motherboard, and trying to find x570 or b550 old Gen tech is drying up because that's the only thing affordable. Meanwhile decent 3D cache CPU + motherboard combos afe going cheap because they can't move stock. The price looks nice but the second you add DDR5 RAM it is just a gut punch. Scalpers are taking advantage of this as well, as well as Chinese "Brand New" x570 motherboards listed as gaming consoles on Amazon.

This is the first time I've had a computer have a complete failure and no way to fix it as I look around at the used market and the latest generation market. I'm kind of just disillusioned.

[lostlogin]

So you pay for parts that are all very expensive due to AI in order to get the machine online so that you can pay for AI subscriptions to do work that is disappearing due to job cuts due to AI.