Valve confirm Steam Deck stock issues due to "memory and storage shortages"

The greed of those who already have more wealth than you or I could imagine is insatiable. And it's you and I that will suffer. It's both sad and maddening at the same time.

Here's to the big bang...

HDDs are getting up there as well. I can only assume FDD is next in line, and punch card users should probably start getting ready.

That's not even going into raw materials.

It is starting here, too. In Germany you just can get the 1TB OLED Model, the rest is sold out.

Billionaires stole all our stuff with taxpayer money and will now sell it back in the form of nuclear autocomplete

shit, I just checked the US store, and every single model is gone. All sold out. Nothing avail.

WTF I hate AI SOOOOO much. Moreso I hate that the corrupt markets are being corrupted even more by the billionaire class. This is not normal market stuff happening here.

WD said it's entire 2026 stock of hdd's is all gone already. We're 6 weeks in out of 52. I was going to build a new home media plex server next year with a steam machine and rack mounted array with new WD Reds, but if this keeps going, I doubt I'll be able to afford to. WD Reds will be the cost of a new car by then. All I can do is randomly go whisper into my current machine with the old reds in it: "please don't die"

im investing in guillotine stocks.

check ebay. HOLY SHITBALLS. used lcd models going for almost $600 usd, used oleds going for nearly $900 usd.

W. T. FFFFFFFF.......................... 😡🤬

Everyone is suffering just so dozens of companies continue to re-do the very same mass scale copyright infringement, AKA AI.

Quoting: suchHDDs are getting up there as well. I can only assume FDD is next in line, and punch card users should probably start getting ready.

That's not even going into raw materials.

Imagine Blu-Ray & archival disks go out of stock before CPUs or GPUs.

Quoting: fabertaweThe greed of those who already have more wealth than you or I could imagine is insatiable. And it's you and I that will suffer. It's both sad and maddening at the same time.

Here's to the big bang...

It feels this is the build-up to these huge cooperations you see in the sci-fi movies or games that have become so huge, control everything and no governments controls them anymore

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Quoting: suchHDDs are getting up there as well. I can only assume FDD is next in line, and punch card users should probably start getting ready.

That's not even going into raw materials.

Imagine Blu-Ray & archival disks go out of stock before CPUs or GPUs.

It'll happen in due time since Sony is already starting to discontinue making Blu-ray machines and others will eventually follow. Before you know it, Blu-Ray & archival disks sill start to go away.

^ I mean, with all the fuckery going on left and right nowadays, this is so low on the scale. I would say this is actually the work of normal market forces ... in that nobody has optical drives / players anymore. There just isn't demand for them. For my 85 yr old father who just upgraded his home theater I asked him if he wanted a blu ray player for his new tv and he just said "no thanks, youtube tv for locals, and the other normal streaming apps are all we need, we don't know how to control our blu ray machine anyway"

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Quoting: fabertaweThe greed of those who already have more wealth than you or I could imagine is insatiable. And it's you and I that will suffer. It's both sad and maddening at the same time.

Here's to the big bang...

It feels this is the build-up to these huge cooperations you see in the sci-fi movies or games that have become so huge, control everything and no governments controls them anymore

Wasn't that the whole point of the dystopian futures depicted in the cyberpunk genre in novels? The huge megacorporations dominating society. I'm thinking of William Gibson (whom I've sadly never read), Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, etc. And then there are all the films too. A lot of these authors had the imagination to foresee what seems to be coming about now.

Wikipedia sums it up nicely: to"Themes typical of a dystopian society include: complete control over the people in a society through the use of propaganda and police state tactics, heavy censorship of information or denial of free thought, worship of an unattainable goal, the complete loss of individuality, and heavy enforcement of conformity."

^ man alive.

if you put together that quote with the 14 fundamental goals of fascism, well ......... OUCH. I mean. Dudes and Dudettes: we're there. Like ....... right now.

When does the next episode of The Running Man come on?

Quoting: Jarmer^ I mean, with all the fuckery going on left and right nowadays, this is so low on the scale. I would say this is actually the work of normal market forces ... in that nobody has optical drives / players anymore. There just isn't demand for them. For my 85 yr old father who just upgraded his home theater I asked him if he wanted a blu ray player for his new tv and he just said "no thanks, youtube tv for locals, and the other normal streaming apps are all we need, we don't know how to control our blu ray machine anyway"

There's decades of discs sold, so once the big players exit someone who can make those numbers work can snatch up the enthusiasts, I think. Sort like what happened to music players, perhaps, so acceptable to good, and maybe even premium quality Chinese hardware. And those are arguably easier to replace since everyone has a DAP replacement in their hand or pocket right now. Another half a dozen in the drawer, not to mention the laptop, probably the smart TV and so on.

We'll see. The current market contraction is bound to leave a vacuum in any event. It'd be anomalous if literally no one tried to step in.

Can't wait for the day when there will be landfills of memory/gpus and what not because all the Data centers failed to milk everyone for money for AI slop.

Quoting: suchHDDs are getting up there as well. I can only assume FDD is next in line, and punch card users should probably start getting ready.

That's not even going into raw materials.

I bought 3 WD Red Plus 12TB HDDs for my NAS project two months ago. I paid $229 each. Now the cheapest I can find that model in stock is $369. TWO MONTHS LATER. It's absolute madness out there.

Quoting: Jarmer... in that nobody has optical drives / players anymore. There just isn't demand for them.

I don't know, those MDISC Blu-Rays are my standard backup media for years. I cannot be trusted with anything else than WORMs (Write Once Read Many), because quite early i had to understand that i was the biggest thread to my data. I have deleted so many things in my life that a friend gave me the name "delet0r", which stuck...
Optical Media is quite easy, really. Its really nothing more than the optical version of a vinyl record, but with additional layers. Once a year i burn everything vital i have from my family (mostly pictures) on two MDISC Blurays and store them seperately. I really hope to keep those pictures safe for my kids, because i know how sad it is when you don´t have a lot to look at from your past.
As for entertainment, i've gone back to buying CDs and DVDs, actually. Sure, i rip the CDs for convenience, but for movie evenings, DVDs and BluRays are actually quite nice.

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Quoting: Bumadar

Quoting: fabertaweThe greed of those who already have more wealth than you or I could imagine is insatiable. And it's you and I that will suffer. It's both sad and maddening at the same time.

Here's to the big bang...

It feels this is the build-up to these huge cooperations you see in the sci-fi movies or games that have become so huge, control everything and no governments controls them anymore

Wasn't that the whole point of the dystopian futures depicted in the cyberpunk genre in novels? The huge megacorporations dominating society. I'm thinking of William Gibson (whom I've sadly never read), Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, etc. And then there are all the films too. A lot of these authors had the imagination to foresee what seems to be coming about now.

Wikipedia sums it up nicely: to"Themes typical of a dystopian society include: complete control over the people in a society through the use of propaganda and police state tactics, heavy censorship of information or denial of free thought, worship of an unattainable goal, the complete loss of individuality, and heavy enforcement of conformity."

Yup, this just feels like the build up to it, the big corps are almost free to do as they please under the current US administration, and in case of crossing the line a donation here or there helps. Still think ai will go the way of hyperion as I posted here but those mega cooperations I think that will happen don't fit in there.....

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Quoting: suchHDDs are getting up there as well. I can only assume FDD is next in line, and punch card users should probably start getting ready.

That's not even going into raw materials.

I bought 3 WD Red Plus 12TB HDDs for my NAS project two months ago. I paid $229 each. Now the cheapest I can find that model in stock is $369. TWO MONTHS LATER. It's absolute madness out there.

I had some HDD issues recently, and I've been slowly toying with the idea of setting up a NAS, but it's either been time, money and always the issue of space, so I downsized instead and kept putting it off. I guess that's it for that for a good long while.

I bought a factory recertified 16TB half a year ago. Largely out stock at this point, double the price if you can grab one, and there's no stock available anywhere that I'd consider it a good idea to buy from.

Not paying for cloud, that's for sure. They can sell me drives for my local setup, or they can stuff it.