While every platform may eventually need to confront age verification laws, Discord is an untrustworthy company. They will abuse the opportunity.

This announcement should be taken the same as "Google backed away from locking down Android!"
Because, according to F-Droid, that never actually happened.

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Quoting: chickenb00Balanced take: there is no conspiracy, this is simply a market reaction, and once these data centres are built but the envisioned demand does not materialize, prices for all components will fall as data centres stop being built.
I thought about panic-buying HDDs too, but they're expensive now, and anyways I have nothing to store.

I've had someone share an article with me about datacenter hoarding also causing a sudden rise (and then following crash) in chip prices during the pandemic. I think the problem is the ridiculous concentration of economic power that big tech companies have to outbid everyone on the majority of supply in short bursts.

I don't think it's an intentional conspiracy. I also wouldn't be surprised if they considered it a happy accident.

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They're taking away our right to own private computers

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

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The problem is that Discord wasn't even vaguely private to begin with, and as the biggest general-audience tech platform they have no incentive to resist or even engage responsibly with (see the leaked IDs thing) these anti-privacy laws.

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Quoting: ArehandoroMost people will prefer to accept their fate rather than looking to move to platforms like Mattermost or Element.

I've heard a few horror stories about Mattermost, especially from bot developers, and Element is just a client for Matrix, a chat protocol that's so focused on security that they forgot to implement safety features (like banning/muting accounts and servers).

Is Matrix that bad? That's where I was hoping to direct some friends.
They're currently looking at Revolt (or, Stoat, as it's called now). I don't like them, but it's like 1/4th because their only socials are Bluesky/Reddit without a Mastodon, and I see Bluesky as emblematic of "marketable, but questionable big tech alternatives"...

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So, the billionaires stole all our Steam hardware parts. Yay.

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Quoting: tuubiHow do these idiots end up leading corporations?

I just have to assume all the other idiots with money see their fellow idiots and give them money, perpetuating the cycle of C-suite decay.

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The situation is temporary?
In what way? AFAIK, the new fabs are all just going to churn out more high-bandwidth memory that's too expensive for consumers (and inherently so, because it replaces PCB elements with semiconductors; it won't become economical when the AI bidding/hoarding wars end).
DDR4 production is ending, DDR5 production is limited, apparently Micron will be "helping consumers" by supplying companies that make finished computers instead of making RAM consumers can actually buy...trickle-down RAM.

The future price of RAM is based on the price of unwanted Copilot Plus PCs people can harvest for memory.
That's an exaggeration, but I can't tell by how much...

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And if we check the dedicated tracker page, we find...yup. Linux share for English users is steady. Unchanged, even, which makes enough sense. It's a wretched time to buy new hardware, nothing has really happened last month to push people to switch, etc.

The drop is just the proportion of English-language Steam accounts.

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