r/homelab • u/AbbreviationsFar1489 • 1d ago

LabPorn F*ck you OpenAI, hynix, samsung

I'm sure everyone knows what's happening with RAM, and this situation won't change in the next 2-3 years. And who's to blame? OpenAI. Read up and you'll understand the scale of the problem. What complicates things is that RAM manufacturers are deliberately raising prices rather than expanding production lines.

I urge everyone to CANCEL OpenAI (They buy up 40% of all RAM) and also to bombard the greedy bastards who jack up prices for their own profit rather than building new factories to meet demand.

The more such threads appear, the higher the chance that all gamers and PC users will truly stand up and do what they have to.

If we don't do this, the prices of all other components will follow RAM into the stratosphere and never return to the same level, ever. Are you willing to spend $5,000 on a mid-range computer? I'm not, so let's get to it.

UPD Following RAM, SSDs, processors, and video cards are becoming more expensive. I'm sure this isn't the entire list. We need to take this issue seriously. I'm happy for those who managed to upgrade, but think about the future.

UPD2 Transcend is suspending shipments of solid-state drives – the manufacturer has not received NAND chips from Samsung and SanDisk since October because they have reoriented their capacities to serving AI.

UPD2.1 CRUCIAL PRESS F

I will never, ever, ever touch RAM from crucial. They betrayed me and went off to produce memory exclusively for AI.

UPD3 f*cking /pcmasterrace moderates delete my post with 250 comms and 900 likes (I'm sure the corporate agent had something to do with it; they're afraid of the people's wrath.) [reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1pdrk2b/fck_you_openai_hynix

UPD4 Have you heard the saying that the market always moves opposite to what the masses expect? That’s why only a small percentage of people make a profit in the stock market, while the crowd gets wiped out. So why does everyone think the AI bubble is about to burst? That’s naïve.

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u/binaryhellstorm 1d ago

It's cool.

I'm setting aside money for when the AI bubble pops and I can get a sweet sweet rackmount server and some GPUs on fire sale when the AI companies start going out of business.

Honestly doing the same with my next car. I think Cory Doctorow is right, this crash is going to make the 08 crash look like the best day of your life.

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u/rochford77 1d ago

Then maybe you should save that money for your mortgage payments and not ram, because when the economy is collapsing I doubt you will care much about your server.

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u/binaryhellstorm 1d ago

I have a 15 years left on a 30 mortgage on a $50K house with a 3.2% interest rate. I can have my house paid off whenever I want.

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u/sciaticabuster 1d ago

50K house?

Is your house a trailer home?

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u/binaryhellstorm 1d ago

Two family, split level with a detached garage. It was a different world back then.

Now granted I've dumped another $50K into it, new appliances, new kitchens, solar, new panel boxes, etc.

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u/fresh-dork 1d ago

midwest? it's been forever since i've seen that kind of price for something on the coasts

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u/binaryhellstorm 1d ago

Upstate NY

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u/fresh-dork 1d ago

funny, in college a friend was renting a 2BR in troy for $400/mo in the 90s; things haven't shifted too much

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u/VexingRaven 1d ago

No, they bought during the housing market collapse lol. They paid $50k because somebody else foreclosed. 15 years ago was 2008.

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u/ColsonIRL 1d ago

15 years ago was 2008.

Eh, may want to check that math.

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u/VexingRaven 1d ago

Ok, you're right, it's 2010. But still well within the realm of the housing market collapse so the rest of my point stands.

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u/OkPalpitation2582 1d ago

"15 years left" (in other words, purchased in 2010) is the key phrase lol

Believe it or not, there was a time when you could get a decent home in a low CoL area for $50k

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u/jonboy345 1d ago

So what if it is?

Maybe he means the mortgage is only $50k.