Hardware Winter Gamepocalypse Recap: - AI happens - Greed.exe - AI companies begin hoarding GPUs and RAM - Micron stops producing Crucial brand RAM for consumers because AI companies will pay more - RAM triples in price overnight - “Oh no! We suck again!” - Computer manufacturers are now giving less RAM in products and charging more - Consumer hardware hit - Samsung rumored that they’re getting out of the SATA SSD business. They deny this but they’ve denied things that became true before. - Nvidia announces less consumer GPU production next year - Already unaffordable GPU prices get even higher - Gamers cry into their Hatsune Miku body pillows. - Still no Half-Life 3. Only pain. - All of this leads to more and more people priced out of local ownership of hardware. - Companies focus on streaming compute - You will own nothing and be happy - Everything is run in the cloud - OpenAI sends a hitman to break down your door and steal your state unauthorized Steam Deck for its RAM. - You have to rent the compute to cry about it online.(Autism Capital 🧩)