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   Yer ol' Pal Gordo (gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Feb-2026 00:33:52 JST Yer ol' Pal Gordo

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs I just need a 32GB kit 😭

   I had one lined up on Marketplace for $75, but qas waiting for a deposit and lost it. Then everything immediately went to shit and RAM shot up everywhere.

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     Sara Safavi (sara@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Feb-2026 00:41:18 JST Sara Safavi

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I wonder if this will be the inflection point that pumps the brakes on questionable "smart" products. More *dumb* refrigerators/TVs/bbq grills in flagship lineups, etc.

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     txtx 🇪🇺 (txtx@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Feb-2026 01:30:28 JST txtx 🇪🇺

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I've brought back to life a couple of old Google Pixel phones by installing LineageOS. The batteries were pretending they were dying — turns out they're totally fine.

     I had good results with an old & slow 2008 Windows laptop converted to Linux. It blew me away — it's more responsive than my much newer MacBook.

     Just an option if someone can't go out and buy a computer now.

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     FoolishOwl (foolishowl@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Feb-2026 01:30:59 JST FoolishOwl

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I'm wondering what it will do to used PC prices.

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     ij (ij@nerdculture.de)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Feb-2026 01:32:25 JST ij

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs ah... or other way around:

     Don't buy a computer now when in 3-5 years tons and tons of powerful computers, RAM, disks and other datacenter stuff will hit the refurbished market, because the AI bubble burst in a big bang. ;-)

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     Thijs (thijs@ieji.de)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Feb-2026 02:56:40 JST Thijs

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs the free market will regulate itself, right?!

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     Liminal witch 🧙‍♀️ Sarah (xgebi@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Feb-2026 05:01:42 JST Liminal witch 🧙‍♀️ Sarah

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I'm more afraid of the cascading effect that could make suppliers go bankrupt and stuck with hardware unusable in consumer electronics. So next 3-5 years may be optimistic.

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     Danielle Crawford (aizuchi@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Feb-2026 06:02:15 JST Danielle Crawford

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs this is some insane cross between hyper capitalism and Roko’s Basilisk. This will categorically increase human misery, not diminish it.

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     Dr G (ethicalprofessor@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Feb-2026 06:44:46 JST Dr G

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs

     Tip: MS may no longer support your system, but Linux almost certainly runs fine on the very same system.

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     Fooker (fooker@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Feb-2026 07:08:28 JST Fooker

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs my 2019 midrange home built that I had planned to replace, because that newish indiana jones game looked nice, but needs more than my 2070 super can deal with, is going to be my trusty work horse for a few more years by the looks of things.
     I thought i'd ober specced at the time but those 32G of DDR3 are still going strong. More minecraft it is then..

     As an aside, you'd think game publishers would be mad a nvidia, making all this stuff for better games then pricing the cards out of the market ain't great for the dev biz..

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     D Ingram (ingram@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Feb-2026 13:13:46 JST D Ingram

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Will it be bad enough that software "developers" stop bundling 100s of MB of Electron with their "apps"? Code bloat can't continue like this with even flat line memory availability. Ever cheaper RAM and storage has led to some very bad practices.