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I am infinitely grateful to my past self that I purchased an on-sale 64GB RAM upgrade for my Framework 13 in 2024 before prices skyrocketed. It was $119, and checking back right now... Holy crap the same thing is $1,079 now.
Yeah, I put 96GB of DDR4 in a PC just before prices went wild and my only regret is that I didn't also do my server. Garage sales have been interesting this summer. Always hoping to find old PCs or TiVo devices so I can grab the hard drives and/or ram.
I could have bought a 16 GB DDR4 stick at 30, now they go for 150, I'm going to be stuck at 24 GB forever now.
It seems the more this shit happens the less I need tech in my life (pulls notebook out of back pocket and writes this down for posterity).
yea its getting pretty bad. i bought 32gb 3200mhz ddr4 ram like 3 years ago for like 50 dollars brand new on amazon, and i recently had to purchase that same amount for a server pc im building and it costed like $130 USED
Bought my first prebuilt 2 years ago and it's now worth over twice what I spent on it. First time in my life I remember anything like that happening.
Ah you crazy kids, we used to have to lock our computers in steel cases in the early 2000s.
I got some 16gb of DDR4 i found in a closet. You guys can start bidding.
And people who have an issue with this are called luddites
Absolute clown show
We've been told historical lies. People who have an issue with this are like Luddites, but that's because the Luddites were justified too!
They weren't against technology; they were against it being used to abuse and exploit them as workers.
I fucking had to keep pushing back buying some more RAM. Yeah, that was a great move. Now I can only hope the bubble bursts and prices crash.
I mean, I get by fine with the RAM I have. I don't need much. It's the principle of the thing, you know? Sometimes being financially responsible and careful sucks.
The thing with the bubble bursting is it will still take time for it to come down, as they'll need to start manufacturering consumer RAM again. The stuff they're churning out now can't be thrown into a PC or laptop.
And they'll NEVER allow prices to drop back to reasonable levels. They've already learned people will pay a premium during a shortage, so they can still artificially control the supply to keep prices high.
If competitors ever emerge making RAM at reasonable prices, we need to boycott the current fuckwads even when they undercut the new players.
Give it 10 years and civilians won't be able to own PCs... We will be forced to the cloud computers. And by that time AI surveillance and profiling will already have its infrastructure built.
This is the type of dystopia that I cannot bear to live in.
We need to figure out how to do our daily things with very few computing resources. Gaming and heavy workloads excepted, most things we do ought to be possible on 15 year old CPU’s and 2GB. All we need is efficiency and low expectations. Fuck em.
And suddenly me "unjustifiably" buying 128gb of DDR5 was a good investment of money.
I have 64gb of DDR5 and all my family said I was being wasteful.
Yeah, I splurged on some hardware upgrades with great shame almost 2 years ago because I was preparing for the idiotic tariffs, expecting modest price increases.
I did not expect a 5x. So glad that I did it. It would no longer be an option.
Do I want more memory or do I wait for two years...
I wait for two years. As long as the existing memory modules doesn't break, Linux will continue to be happy with existing amount.
If you are on windows, good luck.
