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the ram in my gaming PC is worth ten times how much I paid for it a few months ago
RIP CIO IT budgets, just as a spoiler - they'll burn through it in the next few months.
Also RIP their blood pressure when they get their Azure bill and E5 renewal quote.
$3k RAM running Chrome.exe, might sell my PC and buy a car
For those who haven't got the backstory here, a GenAI company basically pre-ordered 40% of the world's RAM to lock out competitors... then Micron, who make their profits by making RAM, decided to also stop making RAM to chase GenAI fad.
So now PCs and servers are basically unaffordable. Nobody is quite sure what will happen.
I think this (RAM prices) will end up having an impact on Mastodon btw, unless they come down, as it will push up server costs. Mastodon is RAM hungry.
@GossiTheDog Who knows, it might make some companies start optimizing software to be less memory-intensive. Not sure if C-suite types would understand that's a possible solution.
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