Recent content by Scannerman

Plenty. Politically, economically, socially...

$100 bills compliments of the US tax payer. Not my concern, I'm a Canuck — oh, wait... We pay too, don't we.

Samsung and SK Hynix are South Korean corporations. Micron is a US corporation (although I often wonder about that). Who is benefiting from these insane price increases? A: Definitely not us.

On a global model, comparatively speaking, yes. Monopolies don't like competition of any sort, but they are certainly happy to take handouts from the same government that will not hesitate to tell small business to "sink or swim". Micron made record profits in the same year that they shouldered...

After listening to what Steve and Wendell have to say about CMXT it really isn't looking good. I'm not inclined to think that the big three, after experiencing exponentially huge profits in the past couple of years, won't being doing all that is in their power to ensure that the competition is...

Funny. I was about to post the very same video on this thread. Another glimmer of hope on the horizon, I suppose. Still, I wonder. We have no assurance that this won't simply capitulate to the AI moguls. One thing is certain: We won't be seeing prices for brand new system memory go back to what...

They will do what they are best at : Juggling their lucre between each other in the name of profits and ill-gotten gains, while holding out their hand to the government for the tax incentives and bursaries (which they obviously get) while the plebs continue to run the tax dollar generator to...

Not a bubble.

On chip photonics really is a thing >>

I skipped Win 10 on my work station altogether and reluctantly installed Microsoft's tweaked version of Win 11. Yes, they actually had one for non-compliant systems. Lots of muss, lots of fuss, and no Rufus. So now I own a 7/11 unit but I don't feel any richer. :zany:

Welcome, welcome, welcome! I still keep my W7U operative and the girls here, on the home front (1 wife 4 daughters), use Win 10. To be fair, Win 10 isn't a half bad OS IMO — once all the surgery is completed. I also use Linux and I make no big secret about it. Still, to be fair, I'm typing this...

Ditto. I used to think Qubes was going to really be something great. Nope. The winds shifted and compute is taking a totally different direction.

Absolutely. I can afford to keep dodging it because I'm retired and I can work with what I have but I realize I'm in a niche situation. Not everyone can or even wants to keep their own mini-data base/home server/network up and running. As people become more and more dependant on cloud based...

I pity those who think they can just wait for the "AI bubble" to pop. We aren't going back to 2024-25 prices no how. Competition kept pricing sane until AI gobbled up the competition. The inflated cost is a real thing but it was hardly haphazard. It wasn't the domestic end user market that drove...

Yeah, that's when I purchased my Crucial RAM too. Spring of 2025 was still good.