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Great move in these times where RAM is cheap and widely available
Canonical has never been accused of being able to read the room.
Canonical is incompetent in general
I mean they didn't go "well, let's just use 2GB more RAM now". They looked at the pre-release, and judged that for a good experience you should have 6GB. Chances are that resource consumption of 25.10 hasn't been very different in practice.
See https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/24934365
That dog is so dead by now
A dog dies twice. The first time is when its soul leaves its body, and the second time is when the meme of it is posted the last time.
what the dog doin
If you're strugging to afford an 8GB RAM chip, you may want to reconsider some of your life choices. Even with current market prices.
It's not the one thing that's gone to hell. rent is on it's way up all over the world, unemployment is way up, food costs are up. Ram, SSD, Gas, Electricity. Over the past year, most things have gotten more expensive. Evevrything has gone up except salaries.
Transport costs are about to skyrocket. That'll add several more percent on everything.
From an indie dev standpoint, maybe you're just insulated more than most.
Poverty = life choices is the most reddit I've seen in Lemmy in a long while
No doubt the two aren't always connected, but in the US at least, 8gb isnt exactly breaking the average American household's bank. And if it is, yeah I'd argue they're doing something wrong in their decisions. One could mow a few lawns and have enough cash to keep up with the modern requirements of an OS.
"No doubt they are always connected but I double down anyway".
Now that's not just reddit, thats Fox News levels disconnect with reality.
Never thought I'd see "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" being used to defend inflated RAM prices, it's getting wild over here
The median daily income in the USA is 70$ https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-median-income
According to T Mobile the average phone bill per month in the USA is 156$.
https://www.t-mobile.com/dialed-in/wireless/average-phone-bill-per-month
On newegg you can buy 8TV ram for $15.76 https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=RAM+8gb&Submit=ENE&pageTitle=RAM+8gb&Order=1
So yes, he's fucking right. Most people in the USA can afford 8GB RAM and if they cannot, they should consider looking into their expenditures.
I'm speaking American since you're quoting Fox News... Because it seems you're so self aware you forgot other countries exist. But that's just you're average Lemmy user "I'm more woke than you" kind of bullshit.
Fucking hell you people are so tiring. Nobody supports anything going against its own world view. You make me cringe so fucking much.
WTF you gonna do with PC3 ram, you have a good supply of ancient hardware or something?
Run ubuntu.
Ubuntu, RUN!
NixOS FTW
Average phone bill per month is 156$? Wtf do u have to do to get such a high phone bill lol
that's probably per 'household' not 'per line' or 'per person'.
Dont ask me idk
I'm quoting Fox because the other mentioned US. Blame them for US centrism, but then please update your incomes and costs to somewhere like Somalia, or even Greece. But that would be too woke or something?
Even if most people can, that doesn't mean that if you can't is because of bad decisions. That means being homeless is because of bad decisions. That means that those already on debt for medical issues made a bad decision.
For a lot of people spending those 16 dollars on RAM is the bad decision.
BTW, median income is absurd. You can have income and still spend on living expenses more than you earn. Now please tell me people needs to move to rural Ohio to maw grass to buy 8 gigs of RAM.
Edit: somehow I've struck a nerve with people from programing.dev who created the account on the same day, never commented anything and saw my comment within a few minutes of one another. I think I've struck a nerve :)
https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.world/comment/23020915
What a fucking dumb hill to die on when factually proven wrong.
You only prove the price of RAM on the US, while complaining about US centrism.
I'm not trying to convince you, or disprove you. I'm just letting you show the absurdity of what you say, so that nobody is fooled by you. In that sense, this last message is enough to close this. Thanks.
I don't want to quote myself. Now piss off with your non argument and your dumb ideas. There's no need to discuss this further. You're only alienating people instead of fucking let it go and recognizing you had no idea what you were talking about. That would make people respect you and your ideas more.
You're now blocked. Feel free to argue against the wind if you so wishes.
Oh no! Blocked! What a brave resort, only the smartest would think of that!
If you fell antagonized by somebody not buying your shit, that's your problem. But I guess you're solution is to make a bubble to never have you "factually prove" anything.
JFC. Zero self awareness here. Peak fucking American.
Most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Surviving off creditcards and buy now pay later.
Something tells me you don’t exactly have your finger on the pulse of “average” America.
Fuck out of here with this bullshit
You’re right. I’m a developer making great money and I dont want to pay these prices. I should have stayed in retail so it would never even be an option to consider.