Decades of nice safe cooperation and suddenly everythings fucked and now we can't trust eachother.

Its what happens when you let the mob run a country and it runs around smashing everything

It’s okay we just need to build community fabs. Anyone know how to build a fab?

And somehow it is worse than the high Covid-times

nah all of the datacenters they build for AI, will come to use then. 

they will say"Need computing? Don't worry, just rent from us, for an ever increasing and enshittifying subscription"

Have you considered that...that is the intent?

BART looking smug because there’s no vacuum tube shortage.

Sorry, you can't. However, you can look at his ever increasingly shiny leather jackets!

Liberate the RAM first.

Not even that. They've bought a lot more storage, memory and GPUs than they have datawarehouses with power to install them in.

Not even that. The threat of a missile was enough to close the strait of Hormuz. They didn’t need to blow up every ship… Targeting a single ship, alongside an announcement that more is to come, would have been enough. It’s the risk that has the lasting effect, and I think it could only take a single well-motivated person to reproduce those results with data centers.

AFAIK, Sony doesn't actually have memory chip manufacturing capabilities, they buy their NAND and DDR chips from companies like Samsung and SK Hynix, and simply package them in different formats or use them in their devices.
The semiconductor fabs of Sony mostly specialize in camera sensors and stuff like that.

Cherry tree and knife.

So photographers get hit double.. First being replaced by AI and then forced to increase their prices because of... Again AI. What a great world we live in

It's mask off time for capitalism. Business to person sales are no longer lucrative. All the money is in company to company now. See AI companies buying out entire present and future stock of PC parts until 2030. Regular people are no longer needed in this form of society. That's why the market goes up while job numbers and employment go down. The economy can now support itself without anyone else.

Its the only place left to get huge sums of money, we're in the end game of capitalism

Manufacturers are supply constrained and they are basically selling to those that pay the most. Prices are above what most consumers will pay, so consumer lines become unsustainable.

The big question is what happens when they are no longer supply constrained. Will they be able to start the consumer lines back up again?

You are talking about going against a cartel of oligopolies that have locked down the technology sector with the IP they control and who have cutthroat control over where the latest technology is deployed. What we at home can do is playact "It's back to the 90s!" and go back to the technology we had several decades ago, which is more viable than it sounds.

If they want to act like cartels with the greatest and latest, nothing is forcing people to use it. Unfortunately, the technological divide will still be there. Tech minimalism, go human, recycle old tech, we have a lot of crap we've disposed off over the years that would otherwise still run fine. To create competition, there needs to be the breeding grounds for it, and if that means having to do with what the lunar lander did, then do so and exercise that brain in the process too.