Back in 2021 I accidentally bought a 64 GB kit rather than the 32 GB one I intended to. No regrets now but really felt like an excess back then.

holy crap tell me about it.

The server this Lemmy instance is on was bought in August 2024 with 512G ram. I bought another 8x 64G in April 2025 for £610. That is ~£75 a stick of 64G server ram.

I just bought another server to go along side this and was originally planning to buy the same RAM again. It is now £500 per stick. So I've had to instead donate the extra RAM I bought last year to the new ram-less server.

So that's £75 -> £500. Absolutely ridiculous. Would have cost me £8000 in RAM when the rest of the server was ~£2k.

I bought 48 GB DDR5 for my laptop back in September, just before the prices ignited their rocket engines. I paid 120€ I think. Prices now are like 500(ish). Truly insane.

Wish I had gone with the upgrade I planned to do last fall.

I was considering splashing out a bit for some ram upgrades to my laptop from 2018. It's got 8 gig now, but can support 32. Or maybe just one 16gb stick to start slow, it's got overheating issues.

I was watching videos from a IT tech about how he gets performance/cooling upgrades from just replacing thermal paste/putty on chips. Oh, I didn't know about putty on non CPU chips, I guess I'll get some of the right thickess from a store near me. Oh no, looks like that's out of stock. Well, I want to replace everything at once.

Oh here's another place that sells putty, let me get that while I have some time off. Do they have ram too? Oh no, they don't that's ok. I can wait, and get it for myself as a treat for achieving some behavioural goals I have for myself.

After all, why not? It's late October 2025 , I have plenty of time to buy ram whenever I want to.

Late October 2025
Plenty of time to buy ram
October 2025
RAM

Fuckig fUCK FUCKFNGUFKC

Got a brand spanking new laptop with great specs last fall. Oh boy, am I so glad I did.

I kept spending my money on food instead of upgrades. Here's hoping DDR5 drops below 2x its Sept 2025 value in 2027, to coincide with Zen 6.

I tried to get RAM on eBay. 8GB & 16GB kits are not even being auctioned, and when they are sold their price tag is well over 3x their value, often 4x (GB£170). 32GB sells for 3-4x its value (£260-£320), almost as much as 64GB, which is often going for >2.5x (~£380-£440). If you're desperate or are okay with massive financial waste, eBay is often the cheapest place for 64GB kits, but anything lower is relatively more expensive than just buying from distributors

I had been considering getting a decent computer since 2017 iirc. And since then, prices were already rising constantly, no crypto, plandemic, LLMs or fearmongering needed. So my suggestion is, get the upgrade as soon as possible despite the prices, for the "now" seems to always be the cheapest.

I got my 32gb DDR5 6000 ram for 90 bucks on sale on 2024 Black Friday

Mine is feral. I was going to go with "Libre."

Containerize everything

There's still time.

Bold of u to assume any of us can afford kids in the first place lol. Well, at least if u wanna raise them properly.

I see what you did there.

yeah. I want to think Firefox is a bit better 😅

amen brother

The rest of the couch is my podman services

as everything should be

Running AI locally?

That's a bit small... for disk space 😂😂😂😂😂

You can actually do a lot of stuff with this and no disk at all , just having a 500MB NFS over nas or some 2010 old laptop 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

It would make Garfield look like an Olympic cathlete in compurrison.

I bought 2x32 ddr4 6months ago for $160. It's worth about twice that now! I have half a mind to resell it 😭

learned that the swap -> oom way with deluge. It would go overboard if not contained.

Possibly windows update/defender downloading>installing>deleting files. Might also be the page file, though that doesn't usually shrink that often

My wife's laptop has always had those lovely features with Win10. She'll be doing normal Word stuff, some browser tabs open, and suddenly Windows decides to do something in the background, fans kick on high, even her mouse becomes sluggish. I had hoped that moving her to an SSD and 64GB(!) of memory would remove any of that, but nope, just Windows being Windows. Meanwhile, I have btop open all the time on my Linux machine, and my memory and CPU are always where I'd expect them to be (except for Snap stuff, I need to do a bit of extraction there for the rest of my normal apps).

because of this I use x11, i3wm and brave

Matryoshka*

It's not unpopular but only half right. Free RAM already gets used for caching, invisible to you. What you see in the task manager is reserved RAM and that one can't be used by other applications. If all RAM is reserved, you get pagination or the OOMkiller.

The problem is when one of my two RAM sticks is dedicated to exclusively the microslop spyware and my games can barely run on the leftovers.

I'm playing modded Skyrim with windows, when i used to get crashes the log report almost always have the RAM usage on critical.

When installed some new mods on Linux and they start to crash i was getting "All Good" status on every single log

use falkon browser

i have 64, not sure if i've used more than 12

I do. Games like KSP, Rimworld, that like modding, can get heavy quickly. Can we please move to a patcher approach, instead of keeping all the modified assets (and the originals) in the RAM all the time?