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I Was Literally About To Buy A 990 Pro The Other Week And Realised Its 2x Its OG Price Man WTF. When Will AI Go Away?

5 days ago 289.9K views 0 shares

Oh look, the Grim Reaper of tech components has arrived, and he's got a VERY clear priority list! While compute and memory are getting absolutely OBLITERATED (because who needs those when you're training the 47th iteration of ChatGPT, right?), storage is just chilling in the corner like "hey guys, what's going on?" The AI boom has turned the hardware market into an absolute BLOODBATH. GPUs? Gone. RAM? Extinct. But SSDs? They're just vibing, watching compute and memory prices skyrocket while everyone scrambles to build AI data centers. The 990 Pro going 2x its original price is just collateral damage in this silicon apocalypse. Fun fact: The AI gold rush has caused such insane demand for compute that even STORAGE prices are getting dragged up because, well, you gotta store all those training datasets and model weights SOMEWHERE. RIP to anyone trying to build a PC in 2024 without selling a kidney first.

I Want To Do That Too!

Hardware AI

17 days ago 348.8K views 0 shares

NVIDIA walks into the RAM factory like they own the place, demanding every stick of DDR5 DRAM until 2028. The RAM producers quote them $9.5 billion. NVIDIA casually pulls out a $10 bill and asks if they can pay the rest later. The RAM producers, apparently suffering from acute business sense deficiency, agree. Meanwhile, consumers are thrown out the door faster than you can say "supply chain shortage." Because why sell to millions of gamers and PC builders when you can sell your entire production capacity to one customer who's basically paying in IOUs? The GPU shortage wasn't enough—now they're coming for your RAM too. Fun fact: NVIDIA's AI data centers are so RAM-hungry that they're literally buying up future production years in advance. Your gaming rig upgrade can wait. Jensen's got neural networks to feed.

Poor Tech Companies They Just Want To Include It Everywhere

AI Backend Cloud

1 month ago 314.4K views 0 shares

Poor Tech Companies They Just Want To Include It Everywhere

Nothing says "we care about the planet" quite like training your next LLM on the entire internet while entire villages ration their drinking water. Tech companies out here acting like their AI features are essential to human survival, meanwhile data centers are chugging water like it's a free resource. "But we NEED to add AI to this toaster app!" Sure, Karen, and those farmers need water to grow food, but priorities, right? The best part? Every product announcement now includes "powered by AI" like it's a badge of honor, while conveniently omitting the environmental impact report. Your smart fridge's ability to suggest recipes based on expired milk is definitely worth draining local aquifers for.

PC Gaming In 2026

Hardware AI Gamedev

1 month ago 279.0K views 0 shares

The gaming hardware industry has officially entered its villain arc. While gamers and PC builders are just trying to run games without selling a kidney, AI companies and RAM manufacturers are in bed together, hogging all the sweet DDR5 modules for their data centers and AI training rigs. The joke here is that by 2026, the unholy alliance between AI tech giants and memory manufacturers will have completely squeezed out the consumer market. Your dream of building that 64GB gaming rig? Sorry buddy, those sticks are busy training GPT-7 to write better code than you. The betrayal is real when the components you need are being diverted to feed the machine learning beast instead of your Cyberpunk 2077 addiction.

I Feel Cheated On

Hardware AI Gamedev Cloud

2 months ago 322.2K views 0 shares

So RAM manufacturers are out here playing both sides like some kind of silicon cartel. They've been loyal to PC gamers for decades, but suddenly AI data centers show up with their billion-dollar budgets and infinite appetite for DDR5, and now gamers can't afford a decent 32GB kit without selling a kidney. The betrayal is real. One day you're building a gaming rig for a reasonable price, the next day Nvidia's buying up all the RAM for their H100 clusters and you're stuck with 16GB wondering why your Chrome tabs are swapping to disk. At least data centers pay enterprise prices—gamers just get the emotional damage and inflated MSRPs.

2025 In A Nutshell

AI Hardware Cloud

2 months ago 404.6K views 0 shares

Samsung really looked at the AI hype train and said "hold my semiconductors." While everyone's busy building massive data centers that consume enough power to light up a small country, Samsung's just casually standing there with Micron like "yeah, we make the memory chips that make all this possible." The real winners of the AI gold rush? Not the prospectors—it's the people selling the shovels. Or in this case, the people selling the RAM and storage that keeps those GPU clusters from turning into expensive paperweights. Classic tech ecosystem moment: the infrastructure providers quietly printing money while everyone else fights over who has the best LLM.

They Lied To Me About The World Wide Web

AWS Webdev Networking Devops Programming

4 months ago 280.9K views 1 shares

They Lied To Me About The World Wide Web

THE BETRAYAL! You think you're building for the ENTIRE PLANET, but then you peek behind the curtain and—GASP—your "worldwide" application is just sitting in some data center in Virginia! 😱 The crushing realization that your global masterpiece is actually running on a few servers named after compass directions. It's like finding out Santa isn't real, but for cloud engineers. Your app isn't traveling the world... it's just hanging out in Northern Virginia with all the other "worldwide" web apps!

Draining The Cloud

Cloud Devops Programming

6 months ago 337.4K views 1 shares

Ah, the Environment Agency has finally figured out how clouds work. Apparently, if you delete your emails, rain will magically appear. Next they'll tell us turning off your WiFi prevents hurricanes. For those who missed the joke: The headline hilariously confuses digital "clouds" with actual meteorological ones. Data centers do use water for cooling, but deleting your 2GB of cat photos won't exactly solve the Thames running dry. Somewhere, a sysadmin is reading this while watering their server rack with a garden hose, "just to be safe."

We've Been Bamboozled

Cloud Devops AWS Azure Gcp

8 months ago 549.8K views 0 shares

THE AUDACITY! All these years they've been selling us this magical "cloud" concept, promising our data is floating in some mystical digital heaven. Then you peek behind the curtain and—GASP—it's just regular computers... ON THE GROUND! Not suspended in fluffy white clouds! Not powered by unicorn dreams! Just boring server racks sitting in warehouses, probably in New Jersey or something. My entire tech career is built on a LIE! Next thing you'll tell me is that Big Data isn't actually physically larger than Regular Data. I'm having an existential crisis right now. 💀

I Have Trust Issues

Programming Security Backend Cloud

9 months ago 287.2K views 0 shares

Oh. My. GOD. The absolute SHADE of this meme! 💀 While other industries see their customers as actual humans, the software industry is over here picturing us as either cartoon villains, suspicious hackers, government spies, or—my personal favorite—LITERAL SERVERS IN A DATA CENTER! The audacity! Like, honey, I just wanted to use your app, not get profiled as a potential national security threat! This is why I have to enter a 27-character password with hieroglyphics and my grandmother's maiden name just to check my email. The paranoia is REAL!

When They Thought That Servers And Terminals Are Outdated

Microsoft Networking Programming Backend Cloud

10 months ago 393.4K views 0 shares

When They Thought That Servers And Terminals Are Outdated

Remember when Microsoft thought servers would die? Fast forward to today where we're all just renting someone else's server and calling it "the cloud." The internet train absolutely demolished that 1980s prediction—now we've got data centers the size of small countries and everyone's obsessed with serverless computing... which ironically runs on even MORE servers. The circle of tech life: everything old becomes new again, just with a fancier marketing budget.

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