But of course they do, their shareholders wouldn’t like it otherwise. Capitalism 101. 🤷

Yes, but they can get away with a tiny amount of it. Perhaps we are back at the start of personal computing and arcade machines era, where every byte counted.

And all this is just because … AI demand.

While that’s true, it’s a low bar. Ideally artists get some meaningful payments. There is also an issue how they count streams, do they count them correctly etc. From what I remember, it’s very shady.

I wouldn’t hold my breath that anything changes, though

They are preventing AI to earn few cents /s

From what I remember, there are cheaper China memory modules that are (were?) selling like hot cakes, but eventually they increased the price as well, or something like that.

Pray that I don’t alter the deal further

TBH that’s a low bar :)

Yep, but they still have a long way to go when it comes to co2 emissions.

China, whatever it is, doesn’t wage direct wars abroad and kidnap random presidents. Well, for now, at least. But seeing there is no accountability, they will certainly consider it much more seriously.