We've been told historical lies. People who have an issue with this are like Luddites, but that's because the Luddites were justified too!

They weren't against technology; they were against it being used to abuse and exploit them as workers.

They confuse us with legitimate technophobes.

My stepmother was a technophobe. She read articles about school shootings in the US, and thought if I got addicted to video games like Quake, I'll be buying a machine gun from the black market, then end up as a murderer. Yes, she also had a moral panic about drug use, all while she was a borderline alcoholic. The farce in it was that while I wasn't allowed to play any Quake games, there was no harm in Unreal games, which arguably are better. The tragedy in it was that she tried her best to steer me away from computers, giving me some disadvantage in college, also she lied to the doctors about my first seizure to make it seem like it was due to the computer, which lead to the doctors not doing tests besides EEG and strobe lights. Once social media rolled out, she somewhat changed her mind on the subject, though she was still ignorant enough to think "software developer" and "CNC programmer" are the same, and almost got me a job at a local factory (she feared that if I lived on Budapest for a bit longer, I'd get some lung disease, because big city equals bad air).

Yeah, I put 96GB of DDR4 in a PC just before prices went wild and my only regret is that I didn't also do my server. Garage sales have been interesting this summer. Always hoping to find old PCs or TiVo devices so I can grab the hard drives and/or ram.

We need to figure out how to do our daily things with very few computing resources. Gaming and heavy workloads excepted, most things we do ought to be possible on 15 year old CPU’s and 2GB. All we need is efficiency and low expectations. Fuck em.

Its already here. Most "regular" users already depend for most part of there digital life on subscription based cloud computing. Al lot of people don't even own a PC anymore, only mobile devices.

This is the type of dystopia that I cannot bear to live in.

The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent

Yeah, I splurged on some hardware upgrades with great shame almost 2 years ago because I was preparing for the idiotic tariffs, expecting modest price increases.

I did not expect a 5x. So glad that I did it. It would no longer be an option.

sell 64gb of it today and pay for your entire PC build, plus a new (used) car.

The thing with the bubble bursting is it will still take time for it to come down, as they'll need to start manufacturering consumer RAM again. The stuff they're churning out now can't be thrown into a PC or laptop.

And they'll NEVER allow prices to drop back to reasonable levels. They've already learned people will pay a premium during a shortage, so they can still artificially control the supply to keep prices high.

If competitors ever emerge making RAM at reasonable prices, we need to boycott the current fuckwads even when they undercut the new players.

I dont... I am absolutely stressing the DDR3 I have. But no way I am going to pay 500% for some memory!

I mean, today I saw a chocolate company ad saying no AI was needed. For chocolate. Anti-AI in a chocolate ad.

If Sees Candy is getting in on AI hate to sell shit, obviously people are tired of this crap. The bubble will burst.

and if it doesn't, let em have it. I'll cancel my internet, and start overloading all other infrastructure with confusion from not knowing how to deal with humans and paper..

idgaf. I can't and won't be forced to comply to a subscription.

Does not mean prices will drop though.

They want you to get a cloud computer subscription. They want you to buy a Windows Portal, or whatever garbage small "terminal" device they will come up, and force regulators to make it be called a "fully fledged computer".

Chip companies are cutting off consumers on purpose. They lost your $100 business and gained $1000 sales on the same products