Can't someone come up with alternatives to ios and android. They got so skummy
if youre from europe you could give jolla (sailfishos) a shot. another alternative would be volla (ubuntu touch). no idea if they sell globally tho.
keep in mind that both operating systems are not widely adopted and you may have issues with banking apps or government id-apps. but theyre the best bet to get out from big tech without using a dumb phone.
I see the new definition of "unavoidable" has just dropped.
Tech CEOs: Shove AI in everything they do
Ram Prices: Skyrocket to account for AI usage
Tech CEOs: Price raises are unavoidable!
If apple had a 1tb Mac studio, it'd sell so goddamn fast due to being able to run some of the largest open LLMs out there. I've been using GLM 5.2 and it's damn near opus 5.6, the first model I thought was good enough to just write code without intense guidance. 1tb is well within the range where you could run the model on your own hardware. The higher prices are there to head off the deserved intense demand
Work bought me three 512gb Mac Studio M3 Ultras (one for my desktop and two for my lab). I run exo on two of them and can dang near run any model I want if I can find one that runs on the hardware (DeepSeek-v4-flash has been problematic so far). I’m so glad I got them before the prices skyrocketed. Hell I think they even stopped making the 512gb version completely.
The path Tim Cook(and all his rich friends) are on is going to be unavoidable for them soon enough. Keep pushing AI my friend. The more you push the better the result Tim.
Maybe we were askng for it by dressing that way.
I guess there's going to have to be a law, since the perpetrators just can't control themselves.
Bah, maybe in some backwater European country like Germany or France, no laws in Freedomville™ America, Laws are for COMMIES who hate capitalism!
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AI isn't driving up prices. Oligarchs are. And they aren't using their own money but our retirement funds to do it.
Ai is just a tool. One that is being built out because the billionaires demand it. They are already wielding this tool to bludgeon the masses.
It’s everything with any memory or processing onboard.
I’m seeing it in my industry, devices are increasing in price every quarter to 6 months. These all cost businesses more money than even a year ago, and those costs will be passed to us.
It’s easy to call Apple out, but understand that any device in your house with any memory from robot vacuums to home surveillance cameras to routers are all affected by this drain of chips and components.
We're also facing a shortage of the materials for PCBs.
Alongside the existing helium shortage, we're going to see higher prices for every part of a computer, even without the chatbot hype buying.
Hmm...I don't own a car so I can avoid high gas prices. I think I can safely stay away from AI and save the big bucks. Forced adoption of AI sounds so "mark of the beast" to me.
The price increases will trickle to you in some form
Demand for electricity will raise electricity prices, and demand for gas to run the electricity plants will raise heating costs.
Demand for RAM makes the price of even Rapsberry Pi go up. The AI bubble is the tail wagging the economy dog.
Maybe a little, but the rise in the costs of AI will make a huge number of people to stop using it since it’s not that life changing, bringing the prices down again.
Because the cost of memory is driving up device prices.
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