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   djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Saturday, 27-Dec-2025 04:35:33 JST djsumdog

   • Kevin Beaumont
   Their bills shouldn't change though. The big companies enter into dedicated/reserved prices for AWS/Azure instances. The reason ram prices are insane is because Micron has exited the consumer market and Samsung has cut back a lot. Even though a lot of the specialty high-bandwidth memory is getting soldered directly to nvidia compute units, they should still be demand for a ton of expensive RDIMMs, Registered ECC and other modular enterprise shit.
   
   If MSI, ASRock, et. al. others are smart, they'll have designs up last week for AM5 consumer boards that take server ram in in anticipation of cashing in on the bubble explosion.
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     da_667 (da_667@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 27-Dec-2025 04:47:48 JST da_667

     • Kevin Beaumont

     @GossiTheDog congratulations. The software they want everyone to use so that they can (maybe) turn a profit cannot be used because the components to build a pc, even a prefabs are now astronomically expensive.

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     Just_Patch_It (just_patch_it@cyberplace.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Dec-2025 06:11:05 JST Just_Patch_It

     • Kevin Beaumont

     @GossiTheDog Have you seen the price of Silver!!! Needed for all that hitec ev shit and pv panels. It’s a consumable metal.

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     ocdtrekkie (ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Dec-2025 15:33:08 JST ocdtrekkie

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     • da_667
     • Kevin Beaumont
     • RootWyrm 🇺🇦:progress:

     @rootwyrm @da_667 @GossiTheDog This is hilarious. Almost all computers at work are 8 GB, we just started buying some 16 GB machines for the first time this year. (Old ones will remain in service likely 6-8 years yet.) Most of our server VMs run on 2-4 GB of RAM.

     You making bad software choices does not make 16 GB "unusable".

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     RootWyrm 🇺🇦:progress: (rootwyrm@weird.autos)'s status on Saturday, 27-Dec-2025 15:33:09 JST RootWyrm 🇺🇦:progress:

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     • da_667
     • Kevin Beaumont

     @da_667 @GossiTheDog this is full on unprecedented. The 80's and 90's never, ever got this bad. We are literally at the point where specs that would be marginal 8 years ago are rapidly crossing into 'or I could buy a car' territory.

     A system with a straight up unusable 16GB, 7800X3D, basic B850, 4070, and 1TB SSD will now cost you over $2,500.

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     da_667 (da_667@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 27-Dec-2025 15:33:10 JST da_667

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     • Kevin Beaumont

     @GossiTheDog its like the best of the late 80s and early 90s when computers were astronomically expensive. Like, thousands of dollars.

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     Dante Vortex 💾 (dantevortex@cyberplace.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Dec-2025 20:47:42 JST Dante Vortex 💾

     • Kevin Beaumont

     @GossiTheDog

     I'll just keep running DDR4 RAM until people have sorted out what they want to do.

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     Jaypee (Admin) (admin@mastodon.drjpdns.com)'s status on Sunday, 28-Dec-2025 02:53:07 JST Jaypee (Admin)

     • Kevin Beaumont

     @GossiTheDog
     At a little over 1.5 gigs, I don't think it is totally unreasonable.