Now post the meme where prices stay the same and everyone is confused.
Stay the same? Oh, sweet summer child. There’s a story posted this morning about PCB prices skyrocketing now due to AI. Lasting out till 2030. This roller coaster ride is only getting to the wild bit.
I mean that they aren’t going to fall along with the stock, that prices will remain high regardless of supply or demand, because the new world order is “you’ll pay what we say.”
No demand is relevant for price is just that right now the demand is 400% of supply so a decrease in demand doesn’t make much of a dent when they’ve just bought up the whole supply for a year. It will affect things in 2028.
Oh, I absolutely agree. I’m only saying that we haven’t even stopped going up yet, and we won’t for some time.
Guess we are gonna have to finally optimize our software to run on less while still being efficient.
Sorey, Electron.
It is a pretty good laugh to see Windows 11 and all of its old system requirements. Suddenly made a irrelevant as Microsoft Scrambles trying to keep themselves relevant. At one point it was 8-16 Gigabytes of RAM was the base. Now all of a sudden there are brand new Windows 11 laptops on the market with only 4 gigs.
And it will still be a pretty shitty experience. You might be able to run a lot of the same applications, but I can guarantee you under Chrome you’re not going to be having tabs plural open. Just tab.
there are brand new Windows 11 laptops on the market with only 4 gigs.
That’s just sad, man…
My 2016 Chromebook – which was shitty even when new – has 4GB of RAM.
With unstable supply/demand ratios, prices are quick to rise and slow to fall.
Prices can go up very easily as vendors charge more due to real or perceived scarcity and others raise their prices to match because they want to increase their profits.
Prices only go down when one company tries to undercut its competitors, though. And, of course, they only undercut their competitor’s price by a little, because they still want to make as much profits as possible. This will hopefully result in a back-and-forth competition of trying to undercut one another and steal market share from the other by offering a lower (but still profitable) price. But unless the market is extremely volatile and liquid, this back-and-forth takes time, leaving consumers to wait while the next company contemplates its next price cut.
And that’s the optimistic scenario, assuming there’s no oligopoly and no price collusion. If either of those are in play (and they often are), then prices will only go down if a new competitor enters the market.
Of all the things that could go up, PCBs were absolutely not on my list.
What is it? Has copper shot into the sky?
(Bonus interview today from stock traders into how AI is going to take over the economy and stocks will never fall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POys36tQh80 - important point to keep in mind while watching that none of the AI companies have any earnings, so they have a negative P/E.)
Copper stock prices were about 40 USD around Jan 2025 and peaked at almost 100 USD around Jan 2026, so there could be something to it. The price is now about 70 USD
A complex in Saudi Arabia that’s makes like all the resin for PCBs got blowed up a while back so everyone is starting to be affected by it now
Schadenfreude is free, though.
The long term cost of schadenfreude is immeasurable.
I’m so unbelievably happy that I had the good sense to buy some desktops with 32gigs of RAM prior to 2023.
Joke’s on them! I’m using my 2019 laptop until it’s dead and buried 😭
Also still using my 2016 tower PC. The only thing slowly getting its way is new software using x86-64v3 instructions which I did not knew was a thing till the Mario Kart Wii PC port did not run :(
I have a couple from 2009 still chugging along. Seriously, for a little web browsing and basic YouTube. They’re more than adequate.
Slap a low-resource Linux flavor on them and they’ll keep going for years! I’m running Nobara and love it.
I currently have one of Action Retro’s favorite distros on there. A little MX Linux. Before that, I had the latest beta of haiku. Which I really liked, but was having some graphical issues. ATM though thinking about nura x86. It makes KDE plasma almost almost usable on 4GB of ram with an arm tablet I have. I figure 10-20 bucks to double the DDR2 in it and it should feel almost modern.
Love a Lorax meme.
But personally, I prefer the Lorax that wasn’t used to sell SUVs.
Lorax? SUVs???
Afraid so
I built one. It’s a Waveshare RP2350-pizero with added 8MB PSRAM to emulate a 386 DX. I installed MSDOS 6.22 on it, and I’m waiting on a I²S audio chip to emulate a Soundblaster for it.
My latest build is a RP2040 bodge-wired to a microSD card, a speaker, and a couple of legacy connectors. It boots to MMBasic.
Where does one find more information on this?
Thank you.
Stocks or not, they will say the data centers will be needed for national security and mass surveillance.
How will we ever be able to survive without an omnipresent bot watching and judging everything you do.
Look at the lengths they are going to just to get some red cows to sacrifice, hoping its a step towards judgment day. what do you think they will do to create what they can call God to use and judge everyone .
I’m not a scientist, these are just some thoughts I think about when trying to sleep
It was inevitable
