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Please, please bring the world back to sanity. I was like, literally saving up to expand my homelab when my main server went down and have been utterly slapped by prices.
I bought a 2x16gb DDR4 kit for my home server just before it all went to shit. Feels good (though now I want to upgrade my gaming pc and I wish I had bought a DDR5 kit too)
so like, i have generational hoarder trauma. we’re not that bad, but we don’t throw away shit we can legitimately use if we have the room to store it without making a mess. so i have three extra PC boxes and two extra laptops on a shelf in the garage that i was waiting for the energy to go through, wipe the hard drive, see if there were any parts i wanted to use and blah blah blah. two days of work that i just really didn’t want to do, especially since one of them is emotional. now if anything burns out i have my spare parts cache sitting there and thank the machine god it won’t be too much of a downgrade.
🛐
I sincerely hope this fucks up the market. I hope all the other manufacturers get fucked right up their greedy fucking asses.
With an unlubricated horse cock
Say, are you an engineer at Boeing in Washington?
Remember he was from Germany, even if he ultimately fell in Washington.
“Fell”? Like did they play Taps for him after?
Use lube, or find another phallic object. That poor horse deserved better.
Mr Hands, please save us!
But think about Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron shareholders
Whew, glad I dumped my Micron shares a little While ago.
Oh dear…
Crazy how USA seems unable to keep up, and it appears its best chance of maintaining hegemony is bringing China down, not improving itself. Never expected to see this shift in my lifetime.
Not really that crazy when you consider that the people in charge could have had a sweetheart deal with manufacturers in China, but they cut off all trade partners and all soft power channels, because they’re drooling buffoons who won’t accept that the US shifted to a global economy decades ago nor do they grasp how global economies work—mainly because they fired every expert under the pretense of “government waste.”
All they know how to do is grift and defraud, and the chance to maintain global hegemony is long past. It’s China’s time, now, and they know it.
Just look at the EV’s. The CEO of Ford was shocked about the quality and innovation of the Chinese cars. He’s driving a Xiaomi SU7 and refuses to give it up. At least Canada is now free of the US chains and letting Chinese EV’s in. The movement is unstoppable in the rest of the world. The only place resisting innovation is the US with its current regime.
His current job is also as a spoke person for Chinese electric vehicles. So take that with a grain of salt.
His current job is also as a spoke person for Chinese electric vehicles
The CEO of Ford? What are you talking about?
It’s been coming for a long time. While the rest of us have been fighting among ourselves, China stayed out of it all, and improved their country. I’m not surprised that they’ve emerged as a powerhouse, while we volunteered to give a lunatic the nukes.
Also crazy that a communist country would master capitalism.
Well, “communist.”
Idk how people think China is communist when they have for-profit hospitals, that’s like one of the biggest no-nos in communism lol.
Even the public hospitals are incentivized towards profit optimizing through over-prescription of medication (or useless stuff like homeopathy) in my experience. But last time I went through Chinese healthcare was all the way back in 2017, so things may have improved now (but I doubt it.)
This is one of those troubles with the whole “communist” and “capitalist” things. None of them are actually truly what they say they are.
China and USSR started competing hard core on the global scale in the capitalism games, and lets be honest, look at China now and it’s fully on the capitalism train while still calling communist.
But that isn’t to say the US is any better on the capitalism wagon. The US is quite happy to drop capitalism if a company desires it. This is where we get our "too big to fail"s or companies that are given “loans” during the pandemic that they never have to pay back.
It’s almost like the terms are a joke by the upper echelon to fuck with the rest of us.
People trained in Marxian economics tend to understand capitalism better than stidents of mainstream capitalist economics. China’s using capitalism for what it’s good for - expanding the producive force of the economy, figuring out how to make new products efficiently, and making wide variety of consumer goods. The state still retains control over the capitalist sectors throurh various means. It also owns strategic sectors like banks, etc. The state is controlled via the CCP with membership of over 10% of the pop and growing. It’s an open question whether they’re gonna lose control over the capitalist sector or not but so far it’s subordinate to the state. In capitalist economies the state (and democracy} tend to be subordinate to capital.
Maoist but in name only, as the hardcore Maoists in Mainland China and elsewhere are balking at how the country has become, a hegemony set to replace another.
Crazy how USA seems unable to keep up
The decline started by the 70s.
USA is the new Russia.
Not really that crazy considering that the US’s entire economy is based around figuring out how to sell Chinese goods.
Yeah, back when we became a superpower, our strength was manufacturing. Then we let the parasites with money destroy all that and send most of it to our enemies. Now, even if it wasn’t too late, the people that destroyed it will never let us bring it back.
The West is its own enemy. Not only are our oligarchs against us, they are dimwitted and don’t plan ahead for anything but earnings reports.
THIS QUARTER’S earnings reports. sigh
Unregulated capitalism (and probably all power systems) self-selects for mental illness. Not only do they not plan for long-term, the people running a lot of these companies are not capable of it.
Runaway Capitalism western civilization started at the end of the Vietnam War in America. The MIC went private and every motivation was for Wall Street means and shareholders, etc. Who were the ones that created the biggest demands of the drug trade and America made a new war for itself against itself to feed itself. The War on Drugs.
Now we are nearing the collapse. Trump is the cumulative representation of America. America is Trump. MIT predicted this civilization’s decline at around 2040. And it looks like that should be the approximate set date for WW3 also given the current trends and shift in global super powers.
“Is for me? 👉👈”
~ AI“UwU is all that wam for wittle old me?”
~ AI probably
I hope somebody starts to pick up demand for NVME drives too 🤞
Memory includes SSDs. NAND flash chips for storage + small DRAM cache.
I just bought 2x 8gb ddr3 for €25 so I can play games from 10+ years ago.
You can try games from 20 or even 30 years ago. Plenty of bangers in any genre.
Yeah exactly! Any recommendations?
All the Command and Conquer games
Dungeon Keeper
Carmageddon
I’d say Civ 3 but I don’t think modern ones require strong hardware
Baldur’s Gate
It’s not 20 years old but Tyranny is a great RPGThe games from my childhood!
Tell me please, what would be the best way to play these games on modern hardware? VirtualBox? Proton?
gog.com of course! They do a lot of work to make sure old games work on new platforms.
Proton is probably a good option as well.
Scorched Earth is a classic
Idk i didn’t play all that many games back then, Deus Ex, Return to castle Wolfenstein, Arma cold war assault, Vice City, Warcraft 2, Batrle realms, check those best games of all time lists. I mainly play racing games from back in the day, maybe you like different stuff. But if there is a community that takes care of the game to be up to modern resolutions and easy to run, it’s a good game worth trying out. Guy made a modernized port of the OG Medal of honor, it’s free and it’s alright. You can also emulate consoles so you can play Playstation 1 and 2 games, Nintendo and Sega stuff. I have like six golf games emulated on my phone, playing Silent Hill when i get a chance (good thing with emulation is you can save progress regardless of the game’s saves so you don’t need to grind like back on the day). For Dos games check out Exodos project. There are so many amazing games already made, polished and maintained by the community.
Thanks! Good tips. I will save this comment for later reference.
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Thank you China
Obviously this is good for RAM prices but does the NAND part affect SSD prices as well?
I’d skip spinning platters if I could get 4 TB of SSD for vheapt
Please please I’m begging
Go China Go!
Damn you Mr Xi
This is not bad at all. Go for it 😍
I thought it would take yeeeeeaaaars to build new factories. That’s what they were saying when it started.
Any word on storage?
I have some old Tupperware I could spare.
Tupperware went bankrupt I heard. I’d be cautious with this as there is likely no support for this storage
Nope! Still exists…
Looks like they did get to start operating again
You’re correct. But still, the sequels are never as good as the original. And, i pray nobody needs to sit through another Tupperware party
LOL! Best Tupperware party I went to (this was 1990) saw me driving home afterwards and noticing a bright glow about a mile down the street from my home. Picked up the husband off the porch (he saw it too) and we drove to the block before what was a HUGE fire at what used to be a hot dog factory.
It was glorious and seeing the propane tanks catch on fire and vent from their domes on the tops of the tanks (they’re made to do that, it’s a lower temp metal that melts so the gas vents and burns off and doesn’t explode the tank) - white hot flames that shot easily 80 feet straight up into the air and sounded like jets taking off… So cool.
I did pick up a freezer storage set that has outlasted every other Tupperware set I’ve had. Still have most of it.
