Vissyeesh. im glad i bought my new house server when i did.
crucial is going away so its parent company can fellate ai datacenters?
reality is turning into a looter shooter
i bought this one stick of ram for 286 less than a month ago.
its FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS NOW.
prepare for the same scalping bullshit fuckery we saw with gpus a couple years ago
kajer :notverified:so dumb
MiraWelp: computers are over for a while....
https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/07/2250243/ai-chip-frenzy-to-wallop-dram-prices-with-70-hike
AI Chip Frenzy To Wallop DRAM Prices With 70% Hike - Slashdot
Samsung Electronics and SK hynix are projected to raise server memory prices by up to 70% in early 2026, according to Korea Economic Daily. "Combined with 50 percent increases in 2025, this could nearly double prices by mid-2026," reports the Register. From the report: The two Korean giants, alongs...
Phillip 
@Viss @kajer @mira I upgraded my server to 96gb of ram a few months before this craziness started. So glad I did.
We buy and deploy machines on-site for clients at work all the time. I’m nervous for computer companies cheaping out on SSDs to save costs/because it’s all they can get. We already had issues with dying drives in the field, but I think those problems are about to get a whole lot worst.
@phillip @kajer @mira for years now i have been saying there was this big reckoning coming, with people who 'knew shit and did shit right' having survived 'the churn' (the expanse variant), but it never quite materialized
though now with the whole 'ai is gonna take everyones job' and 'we cant computer anymore because we cant buy ram' oort cloud of issues swirling around, it may be starting
@Viss @kajer @mira I always feel like my tinfoil hat starts showing when I tell my non-security friends about things like this, but the things keep happening. GPUs were just the start, and with game streaming and other cloud compute gaining steam, people will see less and less reason to look into alternatives. Especially with hardware prices going the way they are, we’re at least seeing a downturn, if not the end, of affordable, powerful home computing.
@Viss @kajer @mira Fucking Alex, dude. What an asshole /s
I was just telling my coworker how I get a little uneasy every time I walk by a house with Ring cameras. We used to use SimpliSafe cameras at work, but I moved us to a local NVR when we moved to a new office building. Cheaper and safer
I have a 16-person RCS group chat with my friends that keeps breaking and falling back to SMS. No one is interested in trying Signal though because “it’s just one more app to check”. On some level, I get it. But come the on. They all know I do this shit for a living. I would hope that my advice would mean at least a bit more to them. Oh well 🤷
@Viss @kajer @mira Exactly. Everything telco is one of, if not the worst thing to communicate with from a security standpoint. Although the group chat did move to RCS from Snapchat after Apple added support, so it was at least a UX improvement.
Luckily, my and my girlfriend's immediate family are on Signal, so that helps a lot.