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A few weeks ago Micron announced it’s exiting the Crucial consumer business to focus on AI. Yesterday, a Samsung leak suggested they may end production of budget SATA SSDs for the same reason.

It’s hard not to see a pattern. If consumer hardware keeps getting sidelined, homelabbers and self-hosters lose affordable ways to own their data and run their own systems.

Feels like we’re being nudged toward the cloud by economics rather than choice. Maybe it’s time to treat hard drives like a scarce resource.

Are we overreacting, or is consumer-owned hardware being quietly phased out?

#privacy #homelab #selfhost #selfhosted #asknostr

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defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

Ive been having the same thoughts and concerns - its not looking good and it's inherently anti-consumer moves these corpos are doing, as predictable as every bit of cyberpunk dystopian sci-fi has been suggesting for decades.

6123bc04... 2w ago

I just looked at a Samsung SATA SSD drive I bought at the end of 2023; it's doubled since. It will double again in the next 18 months with whatever supply is left. Glad I got one for my PS5 already. Do they dare stop making use 3.5 drives next?

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

I do fear they are going to stranglehold the consumer tech market - greedy economics make it that way by design, consumer hostility is just the unfortunate byproduct imo. R I P to tech hobbyists like myself and others here 🫡💀

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

It's fine. We kinda just need better software, not better hardware. As long as our proof of work blockchains have enough hashrate, at least

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

The issue is removing the hardware and access/affordabiity of it entirely - software does no good if people can't buy or afford the hardware to run it self-host/non-custodial.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

They can. If there was no consumer hardware available there would be nobody to use the data center stuff. And they make their stuff bloated af so the consumer hardware will always have plenty of power

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

Again, its not about powering the equipment - if they *physically* remove the access - the home consumer cannot self-host. The point is to not have to rely on corpo data centers as a middle man.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

You're not making sense

I didn't say anything about "powering the equipment"

I did point out that they are not showing signs of physically removing your access to your phone / laptop / etc because then you would not be able to use their data center stuff just like you would not be able to self host

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

Lol OK wat

>They can. If there was no consumer hardware available there would be nobody to use the data center stuff. And they make their stuff bloated af so the consumer hardware will always have plenty of power

> the consumer hardware will always have plenty of power

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

I didn't know there was any disagreement over whether we would still have access to electricity

I was saying consumer devices will continue having high system specs

Do you seriously think storage prices going up means they're going to try to take away electricity next?

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

Bruh -

I'm just saying if companies remove hardware access - software cannot run - and its not consumer friendly IE homeland won't be affordable anymore.

That simple lol all thats being said here. Plainly.

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

Homelab*

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

And I'm saying these signs don't point to a removal of hardware access, they point to data centers being prioritized which doesn't matter because they've been making bloated stuff for so long the consumer devices will not be going back to kilobytes of RAM or anything

I don't get what your end of this conversation is

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

Cool 😎

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

No, acting confusing is annoying, not cool. You should stop that

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

I thought I did -

I'm disengaging - we are not discussing the same thing lol.

Its quite literally apples and oranges and theres no point in this engagement,

So,

Cool 😎

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

"Yes" and "no" are not apples and oranges

You are saying yes, they will stop letting us buy smartphones / laptops

I am saying no, they will not

What the fuck do you mean "apples and oranges"

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

Dude just stfu

It doesn't matter.

We are not discussing the same thing and I dont owe you jack fucking shit to clarify further so politely, fuck off lol.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

If we are not discussing the same thing then why the fuck are you replying to me without explaining what you meant to discuss you annoying retard?

Go fuck yourself, you belong on facebook or somewhere that bans people like me if you can't handle finishing a conversation

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

Lol ok 😎

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

Go fuck yourself retard, trolling doesn't make you cool

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

😎

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

Go fuck yourself retard, trolling doesn't make you cool

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

😎

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

Go fuck yourself retard, trolling doesn't make you cool

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

😂

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

Go fuck yourself retard, trolling doesn't make you cool

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

Hope you heal my guy.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

Go fuck yourself retard, trolling doesn't make you cool

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

🙏 hope you heal my guy.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

Go fuck yourself retard, trolling doesn't make you cool

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

What do you actually want from this ??

There is no rational point in this lol.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

Go fuck yourself retard, trolling doesn't make you cool

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

OK.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

Remember you're the one that replied to me, asshole

It's not my fault if we are "not discussing the same thing" while you refuse to explain what the fuck you actually want to discuss

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

Lol ok 😎

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

Go fuck yourself retard, trolling doesn't make you cool

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

😎

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

Go fuck yourself retard, trolling doesn't make you cool

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

😎

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

Go fuck yourself retard, trolling doesn't make you cool

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

😂

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

Go fuck yourself retard, trolling doesn't make you cool

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

I hope you heal my guy.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

Go fuck yourself retard, trolling doesn't make you cool

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

🙏 hope you heal my guy.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

Go fuck yourself retard, trolling doesn't make you cool

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

And now you're giving laughing emojis at the fact that you annoyed me in my other replies?

How fucking long is it going to take devs to make the tools we need to not have to deal with trolls so fucking often

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

😎

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

Go fuck yourself retard, trolling doesn't make you cool

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

😎

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

Go fuck yourself retard, trolling doesn't make you cool

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

💜🫂

librekitty 2w ago

sometimes it's on you to stop interacting with people who annoy you

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

It's not

It's on people who run social media platforms to not make them traps for people with enough of a spine to stand up to bullies

It's fucked up that we've had social media platforms for decades and none of them have fixed these issues, including nostr being here for years

As long as the platform is designed to let bullies spam the feed, the only correct response is to continue responding to them forcefully

Without better tools than spamming replies back, responding forcefully means spamming replies back

And it makes me extremely angry that I've had thousands of hours of my life wasted on this, while devs of platforms like reddit make money on the content I contribute, make money from users bullying me, use my suffering as a revenue source, while being part of a system that makes computers so unreliable and janky I can't fix it myself

I will continue standing up to these psychopaths

That includes the psychopaths that harass me

That includes the psychopaths that removed our "punch in the face" tool by ignoring shit like COVID and moving all social interaction to the internet while refusing to replace the face punch with other effective tools

I will not be one of the people whose fault this era is

librekitty 2w ago

we'll agree to disagree 💜

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

I won't, I will continue to count this as a matter of objective reality where "disagreement" is just denialism, which counts against you and everyone I'm aware of other than myself (even Digit)

librekitty 2w ago

i'm saying i'm disagreeing with you, and acknowledging you think differently

that's what i meant by that phrase

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

But your statement implied I would accept this as a valid disagreement, which I don't

Everyone I've ever discussed this with is doing denialism, not taking a valid viewpoint

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

I'm sorry for being so hostile on this but I really count 0 people who agree with me on how these things should be handled, so I feel very outnumbered

librekitty 2w ago

no worries,

i just don't want people wasting their time

in my day it was called "feeding the trolls"

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that's how i feel about society and Free Software, i can't interact with 99.99% of peaple cause they aren't with me, so i get it 💜

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

I think most people on here have more in common than we all initially think, at least on the surface.

🫂💜

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

If you truly believe in nostr's potential that's always something

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

More so than anything else available.

Mastodon is a non starter and bluesky is pretty niche.

Nostr aligns the best out of the options.

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

Believe it or not -

If we're on here I think its safe to say most of us are on the same side.

I apologize for thinking you were acting in bad faith because I thought you were trolling me

Again, apologies and I agree with you for what thats worth. I learned from this and dont prefer "bad faith misunderstandings" 🫂💜

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

I apologize too, I'm far too easily / quickly triggered and angry at people

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

Me as well.

Intent is hard to read from text on a screen combined with past interactions, both digital and real-world, so I get it 🫂

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

I 💜 u

Remember that 🫂

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

Go fuck yourself retard, trolling doesn't make you cool

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

I truly have nothing but 💜🫂

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

You need some help my guy.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

Weak gaslighting attempt but at least you tried it on nostr

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago 💬 1

We all need help is what I mean

You are human and no different.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

That's probably the best follow up I've ever heard to "you need help"

Thank you

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

yw 🫂💜

No harm no foul. Simple misunderstandings.

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

I'm really not a troll fren 🫂

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

Then don't spam laughing emojis after acting confusing, refusing to explain yourself, and taunting the person you were replying to over it

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

My apologies truly

🫂💜

Just want to disengage, learn, and move on. Honestly.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 2w ago

Alright, I apologize too

Have a good day so that I don't have to stop myself from having one for messing yours up

defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

Appreciated truly. Text on a screen doesn't translate intent well at all - simple misunderstanding. No harm no foul.

💜🫂