I’m at the end of the third book now. Was a bit skeptical when I started on the series, but it does a good job mixing humour and very dark morbid fuckery in a way that doesn’t feel heavy handed yet is still engaging.
It’s definitely the latter. These are writing contracts to buy hardware that has yet to be produced for data centres that haven’t been built. All so they can satisfy a demand that doesn’t yet exist for a product no one is going to be willing to pay for.
It will crash. This whole grift is too expensive to keep going. The naysayers keep forgetting that hardware gets old, it wears out and fails, and gets superseded by newer models. The chip makers are riding high now because the idiotic belief of the market is that this will keep growing as the data centres keep being built and the AI companies will keep buying new hardware.
It just can’t. This candle is burning fast at both ends.
They want you to believe that it isn’t a thing but they also know it is a thing and definitely have internal documents and conversations talking about how to get more people addicted.
Have two friends who both lost access to their discord accounts. One via leaked credentials and the other because their mail service shut down and fixing that would've involved flying to a different country (lmao). Both paid for the higher tier Nitro plan, and had been doing so for years.
Neither got access to their accounts back.
Both opened new accounts and started paying for Nitro again.
Even their forum-esque feature really sucks. You can't easily navigate within it, and it's an endlessly scrolling feed rather than a paginated one, so good luck if you need access to a specific portion of a particularly long thread.
I've been waiting for Discord to die for years now.
I think that concept is copyrighted.