• ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    when its turned off, the potential is still lost, because it’s not doing anything but the physical resources (the materials) are still spent.

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      3 days ago

      If you have a hammer in your shed, are you depriving your neighbor of a hammer? Your neighbor can get their own hammer, and you’d both be better off than if you had to go rent one from the local hammer monger.

      Altman is creating the RAM shortage that he points to as justification for hoarding all the RAM. It’s a circular argument. If he didn’t manufacture scarcity, then everyone would be able to have their own RAM.

      He’s the only one in this situation depriving anyone of compute power, and it’s because he wants to rent it all back to them. (Yes, Musk, Zuck, Bezos, and Pichai are guilty here too).

      • Azzu@leminal.space
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        I’m sorry, your first statement is a little weird. If there are actually only enough resources to produce 1 hammer, yes, of course you’re depriving your neighbor of a hammer and it’d be better for both of you to share it.

        The rest of your argument is obviously fine, just the first part doesn’t make sense.

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          What if there are enough resources to produce thousands of hammers, but the hammer monger decided to buy up all the production capacity, thereby creating the scarcity being discussed, and then goes on to say that if you own a hammer, you’re depriving your neighbors?

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            3 days ago

            What part of “the rest of the argument is obviously fine” didn’t you understand? :D

    • youmaynotknow@lemmy.zip
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      Let’s agree to disagree. When off, it’s saving power. I used to be one of those that kept my computer on sleep and only turned it off through a restart for upgrades, or to take it apart and clean it. That was me being lazy and giving 0 fucks about resources and the common good. Not anymore.

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        4 days ago

        I recently started putting my new desktop on suspend, after turning my old one into a server that’s on 24/7. Mustn’t keep two computers on at 24/7 now, right?

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          3 days ago

          I mean it depends. If you got solar and a battery or some other renewable option, run as many computers for as long as you want.

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            2 days ago

            We live in an apartment building so, no direct control over energy source. Although the building does have solar panels on the roof. 😅

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      Yes that precious silicon, the rarest of earthen elements of which we have so little.

      And of course the fabrication of semiconducting integrated circuits, which was always in such high demand that prices kept all the peasants from being able to operate any.

      Such powers should be reserved for those with superior power and ways of thinking anyway, don’t you agree?