it’s not just one dumb motherfucker in charge, it’s practically the entire goddamn government. anyone who isn’t vocally outspoken against AI companies and aiming to put a hard stop to their data centers is fully responsible for any and all harm they’re currently causing (and the hardware inflation is such a minor part of said harm).
Comment on Steam machine prices are live
shweddy@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I wonder how much it would’ve cost if we didn’t have a dumb mother fucker in charge and greedy rich bastards weren’t hoarding all the supplies
nfreak@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
Buffalox@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
it’s practically the entire goddamn government.
Why don’t you draw the logical conclusion, and realize it’s the American population that elected the dumb motherfucker that is responsible for the entire administration. And an American population that also elected a congress that doesn’t do anything!
For fucks sake, Americans elected an obvious psychopath for president, with an equally psychopathic vice president!!!
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 2 hours ago
Yeah it’s 100% on the people and not the constant onslaught of propaganda; the fake checks and balances that were actually escape hatches for the wealthy; the terrible propped up candidates, like the time the US population very much wanted Bernie, and instead got Hillary; AIPAC and other lobbyists permeating the government; nepotism; the ramping up of police funding; the capture of all media by the right; manipulation via companies like Meta, who have been involved in regime change and genocide before…
This is simple cause and effect which seems to be lost on a lot of people. Trump and his dipshit admin is losing traction daily when it comes to voter support because they can no longer uphold the lies. We’re now at the point where they’re telling us the pond is clear when it’s green.
But the people are 100% to blame for this one. We only had a metric fuckton of literature and predictions dating back over a hundred years telling us this would happen and that capitalism would absolutely collapse and corrupt in this way.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 24 minutes ago
Yeah it’s 100% on the people
Ultimately the responsibility is on the people. Who else would it be?
nfreak@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
Electoral politics means nothing when the entire issue is rooted in the very foundations of the country and capitalism as a whole. One dumbass being elected isn’t an anomaly, he’s an inevitable symptom of the problems that have been there for ages.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
So are you one of those that claim that Republicans and Democrats are the same?
That having a Republican controlled congress with a Republican president is the same as if they were both Democrat?because if you answer that with a yes, I think I’m just gonna block you.
edible_funk@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Careful, lemmings hate it when you point out that voters and non voters are responsible for the government we have, or that it’s largely a reflection of the culture and society we propagate.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Absolutely, Trump is a symptom not the disease, American society is sick. That doesn’t mean all Americans are sick, there are good Americans. But enough Americans see psychopathy as an expression of freedom. So they are willing to vote for a clear psychopath. The disease in American society is like a cancer, it’s not all cells in the body that are cancerous, but it’s enough to make the society very very sick.
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
The American people are the most propagandised on Earth. Our education has been eroded over decades and we are steeped in a media sphere almost entirely owned by the wealthy which constantly discredits anything remotely socialist and tells almost nothing but lies about the outside world. People can’t even usually protest in a serious way without losing their jobs, and therefore their healthcare and housing. When protesters burned down the police station in Minneapolis in 2020, that was ranked with a higher approval rating than nearly any politician elected at the time.
Even if a good candidate is elected, the power comes from the wealthy, they will subvert any thing progressive using their trillions of dollars and surveillance panopticon.
So a lot of Americans did vote for this horrific administration, but most people don’t even know what they are voting for, and voter turnout is egregiously bad because most people don’t feel they can even trust what they are told about politics.
tomalley8342@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
So a lot of Americans did vote for this horrific administration, but most people don’t even know what they are voting for
And the second time around?
Buffalox@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Even if a good candidate is elected, the power comes from the wealthy,
Exactly, taking your country back, should start with taxing the rich heavily. That would be a good start for Americans.
yucandu@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
abolish capitalism
What does this mean, exactly?
Patariki@feddit.nl 2 hours ago
Communism, comrad!
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Reorganize our economic system into one in which the means of production, ie factories, farms, etc, are collectively owned by the people instead of being owned by the rich elite who take all profit for themselves.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 12 hours ago
you take capitalism
you place under guillotine
you manœuver guillotine
done
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 17 hours ago
I’m not sure, but let’s live a little, try something new and see where it goes.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I play music and grow some mean artichokes. Like they have thorns and everything they’re delicious. Willing to trade sass for butter
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 19 hours ago
speculation says 750ish. which really would have been perfect
mrfriki@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Yeah, this was my guess as well in a pre-ram crisis era.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 11 hours ago
$750 is still about $250 too expensive for what it is and the performance it has.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Apparently Valve said to look at the Steam Deck price hike for a clue. So probably around $750 for the base model.
Velypso@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
999 for 1 tb with controller.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
*2TB, there’s no 1TB model.
PonyOfWar@pawb.social 21 hours ago
My guess would be like 600 or so for the base model.
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
LTT got a bit of a guess from Valve, the estimate is that the price was adjusted roughly in line with the recent Steam Deck increase.
Puts it about 850 or so for the base model, but that is going from announcement to now, not all the way back to the beginning of all this mess.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
Let’s pick Oct 2025 as our ‘pre RAMpocalypse’ time frame.
Data source: pangoly.com
(I removed BestBuy because it is an extremely erratic dataset that basically bounces around the average of others, but makes the graph nearly unreadable)
Image
16GB DDR5 Crucial RAM
Oct 2025: ~$50
Jun 2026: ~$275
Image
2TB NVME M.2 Crucial SSD
Oct 2025: ~$140
Jun 2026: ~$300 (if you remove Adorama)
Image
512GB NVME M.2 Kingston SSD
Oct 2025: ~$50
Jun 2026: ~$200
$275 - $50 = $225
$300 - $140 = $160
$225 + $160 = $385
Thus, the 2TB variant has an effective ~$385 upcharge due to the RAMpocalypse.
2TB variant MSRP is $1349, thus it would be ~$964 pre-RAMpocalypse, meaning that the RAMpocalypse % upcharge is ~39.9%
Do the same with the 512GB variant:
$275 - $50 = $225
$200 - $50 = $150
$225 + $150 = $375
$375 effective RAMpocalypse upcharge.
MSRP of 512GB variant is $1050, thus it would be ~$675 pre-RAMpocalypse, % upcharge of ~55.5%
Obviously this methodology is not perfectly correct, but I’d argue its quite reasonable ‘napkin math’… you could maybe make an index of all prices of all brands of RAM/SSD in exact performance spec matches to be slightly more accurate, but yeah, roughly, the RAMpocalypse made the Steam Machine, on average, about 40% to 45% more expensive than it otherwise would have been.