The whole LLM bubble has thrown a massive locomotive in my chain off storage.It is now not feasible for me to buy USB st...

The whole LLM bubble has thrown a massive locomotive in my chain off storage.It is now not feasible for me to buy USB sticks SSDs HDDs hard drives just to experiment.Without experimenting I will not learn how to properly use new operating systems.I have still not be able to test illumos in a proper manner...To give an indication of the markup difference that I have, an 8TB hard drive which had cost me USD140 is now close to USD 400A 64 GB microSD card went from USD 5 to USD 20 which throws a wrench into my Raspberry Pi operations. USB sticks also went the same route. I use those to boot up the raspberry pies so that I can feed the micro SD cards with dataI've had quite a few HDD fail and some SATA SSD fail. All within the past two year and a half, and this is storage that I was planning to replace in this year. It's a strange world that we now need data center projects in order to get small amounts of storage for own home use. #HDD #SSD #USB #LLM #slop #AI #miscreant #programming #Meta...