Order placed, order confirmed, order cancelled, Amazon is allegedly pulling the plug on GPU purchases, and even Epic’s Tim Sweeney got caught up in it
  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
    8 days

    Yep, called it. Prepare to logon to BezosNet on your amzthin client with your eye scan and fingerprint and video (on at all times to keep The Children safe of course).

    They will just ban your forms of payment for computer hardware so they own all the compute and information. Hold on to your books people.

  • o8bepbua9@lemmy.world
    8 days

    As much as I dislike Amazon, this looks like 1 user having the issue. Tim Sweeney is on Bezos’ side and wants to rent compute time to us plebs. I doubt his canceled order of 2 GPUs means anything other than an attempt to get us to think he’s on our side. I think our future involves owning nothing and being happy, but that will probably be after Nvidia and Amazon collude to keep the hardware from us, not Amazon refusing to sell Nvidia’s latest tech.

    • fullsquare@awful.systems
      7 days

      No i don’t think so. Some time ago on one of Zitron podcast episodes the other guy noticed that one of GPU vendors started requiring ID for GPU purchases. Their guess at that time was that it’s about export controls

    • chewypoops@lemmy.world
      7 days

      Yeah, but I run local AI models and don’t want the experience to suck ass.