Yep exactly. As soon as they announced they weren’t going to ramp capacity I thought the exact same thing. They’re taking advantage of the situation to pad their pockets as thoroughly as possible.

And if demand continues theywill ramp and say they “reevaluated the market”, and thus get the benefits of panic buying AND a larger sales volume.

And mark my words- prices will never fall back to where it was without enormous market distruption.

1. Homeless shelters, housing, and work programs.

2. Education, and especially special education and mental health support in schools.

3. Small business low interest loans and art grants.

I’ve often heard repeated that a human can live on water, potatoes, and salted butter basically indefinitely.

Not sure how true, but seems plausible.

There’s many models that use open source training sets and weights. You can choose them.

Explain to me which forest burns down when I run an AI on my local computer that uses the same power (or less) as running a video game?

AI / LLMs aren’t evil or unethical or immoral - commercializing them into enormous behemoths that eat resources 24x7 is.

Agreed, a locally running LLM is an amazing choice.

I’ve had both. I like Bosch a little better for features and layout, but I’ve regretted neither.

Both just work. Both are fairly cheap and easy to fix either by yourself or with a service.

I told my buddy that I suggested Bosch or Meile because I literally don’t have to think about them.

https://github.com/th3jesta/ha-lcars