• gasgiant@lemmy.ml
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    Western Digital just gets added to the list of companies that won’t get a penny from me. When they inevitably try and come back begging for sales from the consumer market.

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      While you’re here, could I ask for a short list? I’m buying a few replacement parts right now and I’m already avoiding Crucial

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    When do we start boycotting any companies that behave like this? We need a fucking class-action lawsuit against this behavior.

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      Even if you boycott WD, the AI companies are spending 18x more than the entire consumer market.

      This is where any sensible country would call for antitrust.

      The externalities and consequences from this are going to fuck up the world economy, hard.

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      WD? They are already not planning to sell to us.

      I guess AI companies? I’m already not buying anything from them. They also supposedly operate at a loss. I guess all the AI tech bros pay them, but they aren’t easy to persuade otherwise.

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      Never, because the entire tech sector is a cartel and nobody else produces this tech at this capacity and capability. You basically have to completely swear off of electronics and the Internet entirely.

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      At this point it’d be all of them, but unless you’re running a data center buying drives by the hundreds or thousands there’s not a lot of impact you can make.

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    At least they’re somewhat useful, as opposed to that harddrive-destroying block chain stuff a couple of years back. Chiacoin, or something?

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    They’re going to innovate so hard with that extra security and all their inventory already sold, right?? 2x production next year, amazing new features?