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Crazy how USA seems unable to keep up, and it appears its best chance of maintaining hegemony is bringing China down, not improving itself. Never expected to see this shift in my lifetime.
Not really that crazy when you consider that the people in charge could have had a sweetheart deal with manufacturers in China, but they cut off all trade partners and all soft power channels, because they're drooling buffoons who won't accept that the US shifted to a global economy decades ago nor do they grasp how global economies work—mainly because they fired every expert under the pretense of "government waste."
All they know how to do is grift and defraud, and the chance to maintain global hegemony is long past. It's China's time, now, and they know it.
Just look at the EV's. The CEO of Ford was shocked about the quality and innovation of the Chinese cars. He's driving a Xiaomi SU7 and refuses to give it up. At least Canada is now free of the US chains and letting Chinese EV's in. The movement is unstoppable in the rest of the world. The only place resisting innovation is the US with its current regime.
Not really that crazy considering that the US’s entire economy is based around figuring out how to sell Chinese goods.
USA is the new Russia.
It's been coming for a long time. While the rest of us have been fighting among ourselves, China stayed out of it all, and improved their country. I'm not surprised that they've emerged as a powerhouse, while we volunteered to give a lunatic the nukes.
Crazy how USA seems unable to keep up
The decline started by the 70s.
I just bought 2x 8gb ddr3 for €25 so I can play games from 10+ years ago.
You can try games from 20 or even 30 years ago. Plenty of bangers in any genre.
Thank you China
I hope somebody starts to pick up demand for NVME drives too 🤞
Memory includes SSDs. NAND flash chips for storage + small DRAM cache.
Semi related note: Is there any reason not to buy the cheaper SSD brands like kingspec and team group?
YMMV.
You gotta look up reviews. Both buyer track records, and focused reviews that look at what controller/NAND they use.
Many SSDs are basically the same as other brands internally. A few are wonky. It just depends.
Failure rates and RMAs might be more common when manufacturers save a buck. Samsung SSDs for example are expensive AF, but they have a good reputation for reliablility and lifespan.
Of course, being diligent about backing up your data means that you might benefit from the savings with less worry about the risk. Or you could use the cheaper SSD for something like a Steam library where you may not care as much about long term data preservation.
Word of warning though: super cheap end might end up with you getting scammed, or things like SSDs without DRAM caches, which are slower than even HDDs.
