The Worst Thing About the RAM Shortage That Nobody’s Talking About

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• MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My tin foil hat theory is; RAM and Storage prices go up, -> cheaper to buy pre-built computers vs build-your-own computers, -> More people buy pre-built systems -> more people tied to a default OS and software.

  In My Opinion, building your own system forces you to realise that the computer and the OS are 2 different things. If more people build vs buy, then more people will realise they don’t need microsoft to use their own hardware that they own.

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  • apftwb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can always just load a different OS. Prebuilt PCs still allow you to change the OS.

    Also I don’t think the AI boom is a conspiracy by the technical genius Microsoft to sell Windows 11. I see it as a derailed runaway train that just so happened to smash the RAM market. Everything else is just an extranality.

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    • MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Prebuilt PCs still allow you to change the OS.

      (100%, this is only my work place) but the most Tech compitant person at work is ‘I have 3 monitors on my home machine’ and my least compicant coworker is ‘I don’t think I have a desktop’ (they asked me to save their phone pictures. Me: Let’s copy and paste everything to the desktop for now. We can fix that later. Them: ‘I don’t think I have a desktop’…

      Yes, i know copy and paste to desktop is a temporary solution at best, but at least 1/4 of my workmates is at THAT level of computer literacy.)

      If I had to start talking about copilot and Microsoft recall, it will fully over their heads)

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