Generative “AI” data centers are gobbling up trillions of dollars in capital, not to mention heating up the planet like a microwave. As a result there’s a capacity crunch on memory production, shooting the prices for RAM sky high, over 100 percent in the last few months alone. Multiple stores are tired of adjusting the prices day to day, and won’t even display them. You find out how much it costs at checkout.
yep. i took out a loan early in the year to build my new pc, knowing this ai shit along with the tariffs was going to make prices bonkers af, and i needed an upgrade anyway. 8% interest on a couple grand personal loan is better than paying 4x the price in cash
Are you okay?
Edit: Mean comment. Don’t let assholes like me stop you from enjoying your life. I’ve definitely spent sums of money on my hobbies and enjoyed every minute of it
Are you legitimately insane?
sometimes i think that. but i can just look at the news on any given day and feel like i’m further to the right on the sanity bell curve
edit: lemmy helps too
don’t look at that before, during, or after eating thanksgiving
Yikes you’re literally financing your hobby! Better financial move is to get a used system to start with (usually a used gaming PC can be had for like $500ish, and I’m sure there’s plenty of people online you can ask for help speccing something out), squirrel away money for a couple of years (I like to keep a dedicated savings account just for big purchases like tech upgrades. $40 biweekly dissearing into another account you don’t touch is $2k every 2 years, so a 4 year complete refresh cycle for 2 people) and buy when you feel like it. Good news is it’s a small enough amount of cash to easily right the financial ship but still yikes!
yea, i do a lot of dumb shit with money. gonna blame my parents for passing financial dumbness onto me
Hey it’s never too late to get things better under control! My parents only just started that journey and they’re old enough to be grandparents