I just had to replace some ram I bought 5 years ago. I would’ve normally expected the price to have dropped 50% in that time if not more. Instead it went up like 40%.
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TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TachyonTele@piefed.social 2 months ago
Yeah, that’s why i just download more ram as I need it. It’s cheap too.
Grimy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I just upgrade my paging size by a few gb every year. The warning can be ignored.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Built a homelab last year. Told myself “ehh skimp on the ram you can upgrade that later”
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Right? Always has been the way I’ve thought about ram
rotopenguin@infosec.pub 2 months ago
My biggest regret is not getting a whole crate of 2TB intel SSDs when they were going for $70. “Surely, this is a sign that prices are just getting better and better!”
Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s because the SteamDeck 2 is on the way right?? Right???
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Yeah. That’s it. Go to sleep now, sweetie.
rotopenguin@infosec.pub 2 months ago
It’s because “The Ides of March: Et Tu Edition” is on its way
K3can@lemmy.radio 2 months ago
It would certainly make sense to stop producing an old model to save components for the manufacture of the new ones.
Deconceptualist@leminal.space 2 months ago
Maybe this is a good time to finally sell my OG 256 GB LCD Deck.
(I upgraded to 1 TB OLED of course)
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Getting a 128 gb machine earlier this year maybhave been a once in a lifetime purchase.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 2 months ago
2008: 8 GB of memory becomes normalized
2028: 8 GB of memory becomes normalized
9point6@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Rocking 64GB on my desktop after an opportunistic upgrade a couple of years ago and barely using 32GB most of the time
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vortexsurfer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mine has 48GB. Started with 16, but a few years ago the pc started crashing/freezing randomly. I assumed it was because of bad ram, so I just bought a new set of 32GB, since it was pretty cheap, but the crashes continued after switching to the new ram. So I added the old 2x8gb sticks back in and now I have 48.
Turned out it was the cpu that was bad.
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Same here. Should have went for two 2 To SSDs instead of one too by the looks of it…
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I had 32 GB of ddr4 3200 speed Corsair.
About a year ago I found a new in box 32GB Corsair exact same set of ram I had at a bin store and bought it for a whopping… $5.
I have no need for 64GB, but even a year ago $5 ram was just way too cheap to not buy.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I upgraded to 128GB on our server at the point where RAM was the cheapest and oh boy is it tempting to sell half of it.
Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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assembly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Maybe browser devs will take this opportunity to start working towards memory optimizations. That’s where the majority of my memory goes and that includes Electron apps.
boboliosisjones@feddit.nu 2 months ago
I feel like the art and interest in optimisation has been almost lost. When we made performance gains it was seen as an opportunity to bloat operating systems and websites, or simply neglect to optimise them.
Remember when auto playing videos were a massive no no? Now that nono is not muting your auto play videos. Not to mention a single website running hundreds of trackers.
rotopenguin@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Did you say you wanted “more agentic AI experiences”? Right away, my good sir!
QuizzaciousOtter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I actually think it might get even worse as more and more software will be written by AI.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Apple was ahead of the curve I guess