• merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15 hours

    I’ve come to terms with the fact I’m not going to be buying any new computer-type devices until the bubble pops.

    I’m just terrified what happens if one of my existing devices breaks. If a RAM stick goes bad, I might have to mortgage my non-existent house.

  • Arancello@aussie.zoneEnglish
    18 hours

    it will be ironic when consumers cant afford the end user devices needed to interact with the AI servers. House of cards??

    • GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      17 hours

      Let me put on my tinfoil hat really quick.

      They want to kill personal computing. You don’t need a full blown computer, you need a fire stick style device that plugs into your monitor and allows you to remotely access the virtual machine you rent from Microsoft on a monthly basis.

      • chrash0@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17 hours

        this has been “the plan” since 2005. when i was in high school trying to figure out what the heck “cloud computing” was, this is what they were talking about: anything requiring more compute than secure authentication and pixel drawing would be rendered in the cloud and delivered to dumb terminals. this is what netbooks, Chromebooks, and smartphones have been a step towards if not an implementation of.

        • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
          15 hours

          Looking back at computing history, cloud computing is basically reverting back to the original mainframes and dedicated terminals.

          There was a hype of using thin clients, the concept is that you get just enough hardware and software to be able to connect to a session running on a shared server, the admin can allocate more resources like CPU cores, RAM and storage as individual needs change over time.

          As an IT guy, I do like the concept in a corporate environment, especially when looking at the SunRay system from Sun, which used smartcards for easier access, you put your card into the client and if configured properly, you got your old session loaded and ready in a few sec, regardless of which client you put your card into.

          The YT channel Clabretro has several interesting SunRay videos.

          • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
            15 hours

            Yup, there’s a cycle between centralization and edge. Started with centralization, mainframes, went edge with the first PCs (and game consoles) and ever since corpos have been trying to pull it back to the center in waves. Thin client, cloud compute, arguably phones (as apps processing in the cloud), AI. So far it’s always gone back to the edge for most of the population, except for niche cases (or not in the case of phones). As internet gets more reliable the chance of it sticking longer in the central zone increases (IMO).

        • Mihies@programming.devEnglish
          14 hours

          Yes, but they can get away with a tiny amount of it. Perhaps we are back at the start of personal computing and arcade machines era, where every byte counted.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18 hours

      Dumb terminals don’t need much RAM. Unfortunately, the minimal RAM would come with maximum rentiership and exploitation.

  • kinkles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    18 hours

    I see this as an opportunity to get invested in non-tech hobbies because there’s nothing else I can do

    • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
      15 hours

      Yup, was going DDR5 this year, got a new bike (Marin Larkspur) instead, such a good decision, renewed my love of cycling, having a ball.

    • Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.orgEnglish
      15 hours

      Mini painting, get addicted to plastic crack. Seems to be cheaper than tech hobbies these days.

  • Tixo@lemmy.zipEnglish
    16 hours

    Time to hit the books, explore the mountains, build a chicken shed, grow something in the garden, buy a plot of land and grow something… Build a house myself idk things like that.

    • louloukoutsis@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      14 hours

      Yep, definitely not buying any new computers any time soon. If anything breaks I’ll try to live with it as much as I can.

      Fuck this pricing.

      • Tixo@lemmy.zipEnglish
        14 hours

        I got a framework some time ago, best decision ever. I can upgrade anything and everything on my laptop when I want, how I want, where I want.

  • thejml@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    20 hours

    The RAM I bought in 2019 for $100 is now over $500. at this rate I’ll sell it in a few years to put my daughter through college.

  • DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth
    18 hours

    These price gouging assholes should probably be prosecuted along with the “AI” fraudsters.

  • moonlight@fedia.io
    19 hours

    At this rate I’ll be able to sell my ddr3 from over a decade ago and make a profit compared to what I paid originally

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      19 hours

      It’s a good thing I saved the 24GB of DDR3-1600 from my old laptop. I might actually be able to get some money for it.

      • unitedwithme@lemmy.todayEnglish
        18 hours

        I have 256GB DDR3 ECC, I’m ready for RAM to turn into 2017 bitcoin at this point!

  • felsiq@piefed.zipEnglish
    18 hours

    No reference to CXMT’s memory that’s just starting to be sold in western markets now, I’m very curious if/how that’ll affect things. If corsair’s cxmt kit can hold pricing steady, let alone drop it, for a 2x16 6000MHz CL36 kit then it could be huge

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      17 hours

      Yeah there’s a lot of doom here, but I keep saying that there are reasons that they are locking in 5 year price guarantees, it’s because they know it’s going to crash back down, whether it be bubble or normalization or Chinese. It’ll take some time, but it’s not forever.

  • PriorityMotif@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20 hours

    8Gb of ddr4 is $25 usd and 16Gb ddr4 sticks are going for about $75 usd goes up from there depending on speed.

  • hemmes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15 hours

    You may hate AI, but it’s not the reason we are seeing RAM costs skyrocket.

    Looking at the manufacturing data and the historical strong-arm tactics used by Samsung, Micron, and SK hynix, who collectively control about 96% of the global DRAM market, AI just gives manufacturers the perfect public justification to stop chasing cheap bit growth, starve low-margin consumer channels (our RAM products), reprioritize wafers toward premium products (data center RAM), and force customers into multi-year contracts at shortage-era prices.

    Sure it lets them make more money off us, but they really love locking in these rates with their data center-based customers.

      • SunshineJogger@feddit.orgEnglish
        14 hours

        Rather thex grabbed a fancy reason to increase prices because of greed.

        The few big ram production companies likely had a chat and decided: “Hey, more money? Yea! More money! We like more money!”