Lmao calling it a "crisis" like it's some natural phenomenon and not just ten assholes hoarding everything.

I looked at HDD prices last week for the first time in a few months. It legitimately fucked up my mental state for a few hours. They were charging the same for 2tb that I paid for 8 last time I bought them.

$200 for 8TB back in 2022

$545 for the same damn drive now.

I'm actually glad I went a little crazy buying storage back then, sitting on 40TB locally, but I recoil at the thought of replacing any of them.

AI won't just kill you-- it'll make sure you're broke for a while first

Thing is, I'd like to never buy memory from these three asshole companies ever again, but right now it looks like that's an impossible proposition.

Who ever would have seen that coming? It's almost like the poor decisions of dickheads made an important commodity prohibitively expensive.

Imagine just throwing away your consumers like their trash.

What a business model...

I've got to say I do enjoy reading about the billionaire overlords eating their own in their pursuit to find profitability.

Off topic, but about the article: Are the articles getting shorter and shorter? The rest of the page has more content than the entire article body. I've seen some longer Lemmy replies. :D

Hmm. The Ars Technica article from earlier wasn't willing to lay the blame so wholly on memory prices. I wonder why this publication is.

A lot of the DIY PC market is already under pressure. I worry that this will further strain the component makers (like cases and power supplies and such) and builders.

Off topic as it is not gaming related:

I figured this was coming so I bought four System76 Meerkats with AMD processors, 4TB nvmes and 96GB of RAM. Each actively runs six to seven Win 11 VMs on ProxmoxVE, with many more on standby (each VM takes 128gb of disk space). Each VM runs large chunks of the client workloads that caused us to have to constantly upgrade our laptops. Now, by offloading the majority of the workload to these self-hosted virtual desktops (VDIs), we can extended the life of our "daily drivers" by years. My main PC is a 2019 Thinkpad andnat this rate, I might easily get another five years out of it (barring hardware failure). When we do need to replace, we no longer have to buy laptops with top tier specs.

I seriously doubt the can confortably control that bias.

It's the memory crisis AND the massive fucking layoffs in the tech sector who actually buy fucktons of pc's/

Aside from popular headlines; I think people are realizing they don't need the latest hardware to do tasks or play video games.

Thanks captain obvious.

Year over year. Okay

Last quarter... What

Not due to "Windows 11" forcing users to buy new hardware if they want to continue their windows experience? I think a lot of the old "Windows 10" computers are now Linux machines. But you're saying it's because the tech bros billionaires are artificially creating demand for RAM? Okay then.