The DRAM market is cyclical. I don’t think anyone truly knows when, but it will happen.

Fab capacity is being bought online; there’s just lead time.

Noticeably greater intelligence is being achieved at the same number of parameters (see: Qwen3.8).

I think the future will be bright, it might be a matter of time. And for tinkers, a used Epyc + DDR4 server can be great fun and epic value.

An additional £1,000 for a 2TB drive is crazy though, rapidly takes the new Mac mini from a good price to a nuts price

On the higher end upgrade we're more like back to roughly SGI prices.

Yes. I commented elsewhere that it's only twice as expensive as my first mac which has 128kb.

There is nothing special about making a computer that's unaffordable, irrespective of whether it's 2026 or 1989. If anything, it just shows how little they're trying.

Sigh..

Is there anything better now though?

All I see from AI, is an amplification of the enshittification of the internet.

And people being even more alone.

Yo... the Se/30 was worth it. dual floppies was so lame

when was the turing test beaten?

> something that can beat a turing test w/o sweating

Ok I'll be that guy. It's pretty easy to figure out if you're talking to an LLM now we know it's tics, failure modes, jailbreak techniques etc

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