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N Man said:
I'm not sure if Steve is fucking with those big companies because he cares for consumers, or hates them for his own reasons and the consumer thing is just a scapegoat for his crusade, but I'm 100% sure that if Palantir, Nvidia, or Blackrock wanted to take down GN, they would, and the average consumer would do nothing about it, and after some time would move on.

There may have been some internet screeching into the void, but after that, eternal silence and back to the mines for our Steve.
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TL;DR a lot of the things he doesn't like are bad for nearly everyone. So it makes sense that he doesn't like them, and palatir specifically is making a problem that we already have in this country even worse.




I think part of it is, he is effected by these things in a similar way as the normal consumers, maybe just to a lesser degree. And its frustrating seeing the second order effects of a lot of the things he talks about.

I'm overall neutral on ai as a whole. It has benefits, it works well for some things. But when we have ram prices through the roof, storage is going to go up in cost (im not watching prices closely it might have already shot up), places that get the major ai data centers are having strain placed on their electric grids. All of us are paying the costs, for something that isn't really worth it just practically speaking. Sure Nvidia, palantir, or whatever other ai, and hardware companies you want to point out are making, or are going to make a ton of money. But that money doesn't mean the rest of us are getting the benefits. If it doesn't translate to jobs for Americans. It's basically worthless as far as I'm concerned. Worse than worthless, its a drain on the system.

If a business is doing well, and they employ a large number of people with well payed jobs that would be one thing. Instead we have these companies making a killing, and I see everyone else is getting fucked in the deal.

Then there are the many other complaints people have, that are out of scope for this.

Then you have palantir specifically. People have been upset about the dragnet surveillance in America for decades at this point. I think I can safely say most Americans want their authority in that area to be scaled back to pre patriot act levels. While we have that going on, we have palantir, that wants to come in and make money by helping them strengthen their already insane abilities to spy on law abiding, American citizens.

If we didn't still have the same laws (or essentially the same) from the Patriot act (and some things were actually made worse later on, like i forget the law that allows the government to commit psychological operations in a way that effects us citizens. i think it was passed under Obama, I would need to double check), i don't think most people would have that much of a problem with it. I know I personally couldn't care less if the US wanted to spy on everyone in some country in Europe or something. And maybe the people in Europe wouldn't like that, but it's at least understandable. like I don't like the idea of China spying on America, but I understand it's probably in their interest to do that.
 
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Steve is not at the moment transgressing on any important issues, hence why he continues to get away with it

Everyone and anyone is allowed to complain about the evil of big business, or surveillance in general, its impotent whining and doesn't go anywhere, and frankly distracts and detracts from real issues

The fact that the state is watching you, or that micron sells to the highest bidder, is at worst an inconvenience (to you). These things are played off on in the entertainment produced by these same huge businesses because of how harmless it is. TBH look at what is actually cracked down on to find important issues
 

StacticShock said:
zero mentions of the chink factories trying to settle up on the field forgotten by ngreedia and amd?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YwrUxG26ulk
CHINA NUMBA WAN, this is even funnier once you remember steve speaks chinkenese.
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If >you (not the Brazilian) want to get yourself a sweet Sparkle A310 to commemorate watching this video, I actually see lower prices on Amazon than ebay:

a310-eco.webp
 
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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
If you want to get yourself a sweet Sparkle A310 to commemorate watching this video, I actually see lower prices on Amazon than ebay:
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i don't know about the MAXSUN ones though, it shows for me because on monkeyzil there's plenty of these cards, also ASRock too for arc.
 
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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TcRGBeOENLg

If >you (not the Brazilian) want to get yourself a sweet Sparkle A310 to commemorate watching this video, I actually see lower prices on Amazon than ebay:

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Really great cards for Plex transcoding if you have an older Intel CPU I'm told
 
DienoEnneCalah said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tsD61BMDRZQPost-consumerism will continue until you, yes you specifically, will kill yourself.
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Greedy mother fuckers. They could have just set quantities to 0. Put up a sold out. Fulfilled those orders, and "restocked" in 1~2 days with a price increase. Instead they cancel existing orders .. which they can legally do. But the discount codes and Reddit post damage control is super retard.

So .. when is consumer ram pricing .. and NVME and regular storage (spinning disk storage is 1.4x now!) going to come back down? May? September?
 
N Man said:
To be fair, I don't consider him a grifter like Linus. It feels like what he does is more genuine, though I suppose there's also a possibility that I might be a poor judge of character.
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My problem is he has finite resources. The more he goes from ‘consumer advocate’ to ‘left wing activist’ the less he can focus on testing and reviewing, the main point of the channel that I subscribed to.

The news portion was originally a side thing that was focused on consumer updates. Now it seems like it’s all the channel’s about.

Hard point: all of the CES content could have been in one video rather than the 3+ that came out. Most of those videos were padded out to shit anyway.
 
StacticShock said:
crosspost with the GPU/CPU thread about steve's lastest video on mystery pcb chinesium RAM sticks.

not a bad thing per se, it's bad because chinks have a few sayings about lying, cheating and if you want cheap stuff you get cheap stuff... more of a cultural thing y'know?
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At 49~50 minutes, Steve mentions the US breaking relations with Europe by "invading them" and puts up a headline for a second about Trump and Greenland. He implies EU companies might break rank and sell to China regardless of the restriction list.

Sorry Steve, this isn't how it works. If the US takes Greenland, it's because all the world leaders who meet at Bilderberg, the World Economic Forum, and who are involved with the World Monetary Fund, really want it. It allows a means to finally mine all the rare earth elements the Denmark colony has been stingy about. Denmark probably hates they can't really mine the area either without huge public backlash, so this allows a means for extraction under a specific narrative, allowing all of the EU to trash the US while benefiting from it. The Netherlands is not going to remove their regulations for ASML selling to China if that happens. Globalist privately are fully onboard with other globalist, even if they publicly pretend they're not.

It's not until around 56 min that Steve finally gets into actual brands of RAM you can buy that uses CXMT kits, and he just has some simple price comparisons. Even the kits of ram and storage you can buy are still pretty rare, and checking prices on newegg, they're still pretty high.

No real mention of Nanya ram even though it appears in some charts/footage. Not sure if they'll end up being a real player, but they're worth keeping an eye on.

The last 12 minutes show some of the footage from ASML's marketing videos. It's actually kinda cool, but also pretty insane almost all of our general purpose processors (Intel, AMD, nVidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, etc.) are entirely dependent on this one company to do anything.

The last five minutes, Steve does explain how complex the entire situation is, the competing motivations, security concerns, etc. etc.

The CCP is a terrible government and their corruption and general scumminess has manifest in "tofu cities" (new construction that literally starts falling apart in ~3 years) and massive bridge collapses. When you're afraid to speak out for fear of retaliation from the state and everyone around you, you're going to have larger and larger fuckups. Even in this video, there were lots of references to Chinese companies pulling in most of the knowledge they need for fabrication from former employees of other companies like ASML and SK Hynix. They rarely innovate, just buy and steal.

I can certainly see the case for restricting them from growing these markets, but Steve also isn't wrong in showing a lot of the same corruption in the US and Taiwan. The US government is now state-funding Intel and Micron fabrication plants. Those plants have dropped regular consumers (tax payers) as customers in favor of the technocratic AI bullshit. Still, CXNT is probably going to also hit that data center market first. You'd be stupid not too with these companies just throwing money out there ... so long as it's real actual money and not purchase orders or 6 months of unpaid invoices.

Even if CXNT ramps up production, I doubt it will make a dent in consumer prices until this data center insanity ends. And when that ends, expect it to be in a very unpopular 2008-style government bailout of big-silicon.
 
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Honka Honka Burning Love said:
Smith Mundt Modernization act.
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A bit off topic. But it's crazy that people fell for the bullshit against thomas massie. After he kept pushing to get the Epstein files released even after Trump jewed out on them.


Thomas Massie is the only real nigga in the entire governement.

And seeing people going after him because he didn't relent on the Epstein files really made it clear how disgusting these people are. I'm sure he's gotten as many death threats as Margery Taylor Greene if not more. Thankfully he's at least a man, so he's staying in. People calling him a leftists because he didn't immediately drop the Epstein files, and slandering him deserve to be in prison just like the people in those files. I honestly hate them as much or more than Epstein himself. It's because they are the ones that really allow these things to happen.

I will never forget how that retarded bitch fell for the whole kiwifarms swatting her thing. Even if she is a boomer or old gen x, it should be easy to figure out it was bullshit. My point being I'm not surprised she didn't have the mental fortitude to deal with this.
 
At no point did the guy hide what he was doing and why, he is 100% transparent about being a fan doing a fanart.

It's essentially someone picking an AI David Attenborough to read a documentary audiobook; being acknowledged as a "voice" like that should be flattering more than anything. The AI genie is never going back into the bottle, there aren't that many words to say on that topic."Oh that's cool, better than using it for gooning or scamming I guess", done.
 
Rololowlo said:
At no point did the guy hide what he was doing and why, he is 100% transparent about being a fan doing a fanart.

It's essentially someone picking an AI David Attenborough to read a documentary audiobook; being acknowledged as a "voice" like that should be flattering more than anything. The AI genie is never going back into the bottle, there aren't that many words to say on that topic."Oh that's cool, better than using it for gooning or scamming I guess", done.
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Yeah but using someone's voice to make tech news videos based on ChatGPT/Grok research is not a good thing though.
If the Redditor loves Steve's voice so much then he should use the AI to read a book for him.
 
I dunno. I think I agree with what bothers Steve about this. But I'm not for more regulation. Most of what this guy has done can be achieved using local voice models/tools (although maybe not to the same quality, or it would take hours to render instead of a few minutes). The genie is really out of the bottle. Regulations could mean people get held liable if some model loaded into ComfyUI randomly generates demons from hell from a benign prompt.

But Steve's not wrong when he talks about the dangers of para-social relationships. I don't understand the whole VTuber or OnlyWhores thing. They're billion dollar industries, and people get wrapped up into them. Having an AI generated story from your favorite podcaster or YouTuber read to a script you wrote or auto-generated is ... kinda weird. It's not even some porn star gooning material; it's a tech tuber.

I do think there is real risk to people using the random word macihines to feed into really unhealth habbits and fictional relationships. The liberterian in me says people should be free to do whatever so long as they stay responsible and don't destory those around them. At the same time, kids are getting sucked into this; and what hope do they have against this informaton dystopian hellscape we've found outselves in?

 
Miller said:
Yeah but using someone's voice to make tech news videos based on ChatGPT/Grok research is not a good thing though.
If the Redditor loves Steve's voice so much then he should use the AI to read a book for him.
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He even said it in the video: "if you're already doing all of this, make your own fucking video".

This AI shit is really starting to turn the general merits of people into full-blown laziness. Having people rely on ChatGPT for general information is already a bad sign.
 
WULULULULU said:
He even said it in the video: "if you're already doing all of this, make your own fucking video".

This AI shit is really starting to turn the general merits of people into full-blown laziness. Having people rely on ChatGPT for general information is already a bad sign.
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The AI brain rot is killing me. I purchased a Dell poweredge t430 the other day, and the guy put udims in it instead of rdimms because and I quote " chat gpt said it can use both"

Well the fucking manual says it requires RDIMMS like most servers
 
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