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I feel like it’s been like this for a long time now.
I am so happy I built a new computer at the end of 2024. It may realistically last me two decades at this rate. I got one decade out of the last build.
The beginning of HaaS (Hardware as a service)
[it is very bad]
Not the beginning, ‘Device as a Service’ has been the buzzword as of late, but basically has been a thing for decades. I remember twenty years ago scratching my head at why the company I worked at paid more to lease desktops for three years than it would have cost to just buy them outright, or even finance them.
The amount we spend on cloud hosting I keep suggesting (and I think they are starting to listen) that having on-prem hardware makes financial sense again. We have the staff to run them already anyway.
The cloud is already a thing.
It ain’t perfect but it’s pretty good and gets better all the time:
https://asahilinux.org/fedora/
Get an “old” m1 and rock out. Fuck Apple.
Watch programmers and artists pay for lease.
A lot will. My last company leased their hardware. It cost more in the long run but for reasons I never understood it’s better having expenses paid out of opex versus capex.
Thanks, but no.
Aaaand there we go, as predicted for the lady decade. You won’t own anything and you’ll like it. You will lease pur hardware and we will know everything about you.
Fuck all of this
HAH, how 'bout no!
hahaha, no
Wow! How lucky are we?!! This also happens to coincide with Apple raising chocolate rations from 10 to 8!!!
that’s a lot of chocolate.
Any idea when the Chinese RAMs are going to flood enough of the market to lower the price?
Enshittification
Lol, no
MBAs solve yet another case, which other problem will they create and solve, but not really, next time?
You’re still paying for the more expensive ram. It’s just baked into a higher monthly rental payment. Why pay more for ram one time when you could pay more for ram every month for the rest of your life?
When a company says it has a “solution” for the high price, they means they have a “solution” for the big number on the sticker. Not that they actually care about affordability.
