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RAM to see 'meaningful price increases' before 2026 is out, as the memory crisis is predicted to last 'at least' another 3 years
www.techradar.com/computing/memory/ram-to-see-meaningful-price-increases-before-2026-is-out-as-the-memory-crisis-is-predicted-to-last-at-least-another-3-years
Replying to @qImPMgxRpOZiUbxz4hWq@lemmy.world
I think it’s interesting (and probably telling) that this comment section is largely concerned about consumer gaming memory than like, the cumulative cost increases that this creates in a computer-dependent global economy.
Replying to @orioler25@lemmy.world
We had been wasting RAM like it was free. Nobody was optimizing anything. The impact on actually productive activity will be minimal.
The main danger these companies pose to the economy is when the bubble pops.
Replying to @explodicle@sh.itjust.works
Yeah I was going to say, there is a proprietary piece of software they use at work that uses like seven gigs of RAM for no reason.
Replying to @echodot@feddit.uk
I don’t know why both of you seem to think that is something gamechanging. You’d think that, if you realized something was being used excessively to cut out labour, that having to use more labour would make whatever that memory was being used to do more expensive, because now there’s increased memory cost and more labour for optimization.
Object permanence.
Replying to @orioler25@lemmy.world
I think I might have grants to Sue you for the mental damage that was caused by having to read that incoherent nonsense you just wrote. Are you drunk or something because that scent is made absolutely zero since.