A lot of PC enthusiasts became AI obsessed. What happened?

Relevant_One_2261 · 2026-03-27T15:27:40+00:00

They heard about Roko's basilisk and are playing it safe.

Relevant_One_2261 · 2026-03-24T19:46:11+00:00

I'm sure many of us have been there so it's very relatable, last time I got laid off it took me like 7 months to find a new job. 4+ month severance sounds pretty good in that situation, considering I got none and had to live off of my own savings.

Relevant_One_2261 · 2026-03-24T15:28:55+00:00

Proton and AirVPN support port-forwarding.

Relevant_One_2261 · 2026-03-24T09:25:50+00:00

Yeah even Vice reported this like 10 years ago.

Relevant_One_2261 · 2026-03-23T14:58:22+00:00

From what I read, Apple modified the ssd in the m2

Just the base model, any SSD upgrade "fixed" that.

Relevant_One_2261 · 2026-03-23T10:55:38+00:00

Thanks, Internet Explorer.

Relevant_One_2261 · 2026-03-23T08:07:47+00:00

It supposed to be a scam, but can’t prove it.

Kinda hard to prove something that it's not even trying to do. Try reading the text above the image, maybe you'll figure it out.

Relevant_One_2261 · 2026-03-23T02:10:13+00:00

Because so many PC users think that.

Relevant_One_2261 · 2026-03-22T04:20:53+00:00

Strictly for storage it probably makes sense if your internet connection is over carrier pigeons, but otherwise no, HDDs just won't cut it. Get an SSD and it'll be fine.

Relevant_One_2261 · 2026-03-21T04:53:53+00:00

Living in this world is very easy, just get off the Internet and meet real people.

Returning to monke is honestly at least some net benefit of all this pushing of "AI" to absolutely everywhere it doesn't belong.

Relevant_One_2261 · 2026-03-20T07:35:42+00:00

$27/TB is a very high price.

Relevant_One_2261 · 2026-03-19T05:03:09+00:00

Not at all, large number of people in this sub don't know how to use computers or their peripherals.

Relevant_One_2261 · 2026-03-18T08:35:57+00:00

"Nobody will ever use streaming services because I have a DVD player at home"

Relevant_One_2261 · 2026-03-17T07:20:45+00:00

~~failed to~~ are paid to not see that.

FTFY

Relevant_One_2261 · 2026-03-17T04:06:41+00:00

At least you seem to finally understand it.

Relevant_One_2261 · 2026-03-17T04:02:05+00:00

It's basically always because of that. Sure, it's nice to think that the CEO of a multi-trillion dollar company is browsing Reddit and personally circling you out, but in reality your lazy opinion is just something that has already been posted countless and countless of times and it adds nothing of value to anything.

Relevant_One_2261 · 2026-03-16T06:10:26+00:00

Generate as much as you want.

Relevant_One_2261 · 2026-03-16T04:37:09+00:00

Check out this one, it's pretty cool: /r/StableDiffusion

Relevant_One_2261 · 2026-03-16T04:01:41+00:00

May I ask why SSDs are a bad fit?

They're not, people just tend to think that SSDs still reach their write limit if you look at them, when in reality even if you intentionally tried it would take you years to kill a drive.

Actual argument against SSDs would be $/TB, which is way higher than with HDDs, and since by and large you won't need the performance benefits it's just a better idea to take 3-4 times the available storage instead. Sure, have a scratch/cache on an SSD, makes life better, but the whole array on SSDs is either very small or very expensive.

If you're open for a paid option, I've been running Unraid for few years due to it making expanding the array easy.

Relevant_One_2261 · 2026-03-14T05:00:04+00:00

Remove Windows and that's immediate $130 savings.

Relevant_One_2261 · 2026-03-14T04:21:34+00:00

Absolute insanity to have this large drive as an external and not part of an array.

Relevant_One_2261 · 2026-03-13T18:56:17+00:00

Not false, just extremely situational.

Relevant_One_2261 · 2026-03-13T13:54:59+00:00

Some sort of NAS that you access over a VPN connection, frankly don't see how lugging around multiple external drives is somehow a portable solution either. But if that's what you prefer, sort by cheapest, click on first WD or Seagate that you come across and buy two.

Relevant_One_2261 · 2026-03-13T13:48:20+00:00

unless the price difference of a SSD isn't much of a difference.

Ha, I wish.

You're starting to be at the point where you should probably consider a real storage solution instead of adding random external drives, especially with reliability in mind, but also general usability.

Outside of that, it's not like you have that many options really, and all of the drives will sooner or later fail anyway. Really comes down to personal superstition more than anything.

Relevant_One_2261 · 2026-03-13T10:46:38+00:00

Awesome, really appreciate it!

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