Mr. Fox

AI is useful and I have used it for a number of beneficial purposes at work, even deployed some programs around it. Technology is like anything else. It can be used for good or evil purposes, and it can be abused or used in self-serving ways that do not benefit society. I am not against AI. I like it and support the proper use of it. What we are seeing with the frenetic moves by huge companies to turn it into a self-serving cash cow is wrong and needs to be ended through regulatory intervention. Profits earned by it should be capped or taxed at astronomical rates that effectively cap it to remove the secondary gain monetization incentive driving the unacceptable level of insanity we are experiencing right now.

It will take a big upset and collapse of the irrational AI grab-ass nonsense for this to correct itself. Hopefully the crash will be extremely hard, cost all of the bigshots hundreds of billions in losses and come sooner than later. I'd love to see them totally wipe out and burst into flames in time for Christmas sales in 2026. Would be awesome to see a massive dump of hardware surplus that bankrupt AI companies no longer want or need. I'm sure they already have stockpiles of GPUs, storage and RAM that are not even being used that they will need to dump.

Sorry to hear about the adverse weather. Your temperatures look to be about the same as Brother @Rage Set and a significant portion of the Eastern US (even the Deep South) is experiencing brutal and abnormal ICE and snow, downed power lines, etc. I suspect that Brothers @tps3443 and @electrosoft are also getting hammered pretty severely right now. The Arizona summer heat can be deadly, but Arizona (and most other states in the West) very seldom have severe or catastrophic weather events. Most of the horrible and catastrophic weather events occur in the Central and Eastern states. Brother @Raiderman and I do not see very many temper tantrums from Mother Nature.

That sucks. Sorry to hear that. Did you try removing the RAM and inserting one known good stick to see if it will power up?

Brother @Papusan it looks like there is a solution to use the Matrix BIOS on your Astral. I am using it on my Solid OC and it is the best one. https://www.overclock.net/posts/29553948/

The cliché expression that failing to plan is a plan to fail directly applies here. Accumulating stuff is more important than having a plan for many. Unfortunately, most try to pin the blame on other things when, more often than not, it is a problem with personal perspective and priorities for most.

Murphy's Law. More dead RAM kits when RAM prices are at their worst. This seems to be happening freakishly often.

Having rich people pay the way of the poor is always a stupid idea and a plan destined for failure. AI is a stupid "investment" because consumers do not need it or want it bad enough to pay for it. The crazy people sinking billions into it are going to lose their butts and it will bring a smile to my face when they begin to collapse like the Hindenburg and fall from the sky in flames. I use AI, but I won't pay for it. If it is not free then I will not use it. That is the majority sentiment and there is not enough need for it in business for them to be able to charge enough to make a profit. It is causing first-world problems for consumers, system builders and consumer-focused hardware manufacturers with limited supply and stupid GPU, RAM and NVMe prices, but this will pass and all of the money spent to ramp up production to feed the AI pig that collapses will leave those companies in the same dire straits. We will just have to wait for stupidity to runs its course. How long it will take remains to be seen. It will happen when they run out of other people's money.

Employers that do not value their employees often view them as a liability or overhead expense rather than an asset. Companies like that do not deserve to be profitable or successful. They deserve the same treatment as the employees they abuse.

He mentioned it in the post linked by Brother @electrosoft

Best wishes on your new family business venture, brother.

I am glad they did. I hope more AIBs start throwing them under the bus. Maybe even do a burnout on their head, then back over them a second time for good measure. That is better than what they deserve.