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Initech

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1. Look at the cost of PC RAM and how much that's increased.

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 08:48 PM

17 hrs ago

It was $120 for a 32GB set only a couple months ago. Now that same set goes for over $400. Double that RAM and it's double the price. That will happen to a lot of things in the near future.

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Prices in the Machine - An Emergent AI Threat [View all] Celerity 17 hrs ago OP

Look at the cost of PC RAM and how much that's increased. Initech 17 hrs ago #1

That's trippy cause I was pricing RAM yesterday thinking of going from 4*8 to 4*16 sticks AZJonnie 16 hrs ago #3

You're looking at DDR4 prices. Initech 14 hrs ago #7

Umm ... my post specifically says I'm looking at DDR4 prices AZJonnie 14 hrs ago #8

Cory Doctorow and others have been arguing this also. Surveillance capitalism. erronis 17 hrs ago #2

There's already a lot of price fixing going on in the housing rental market dickthegrouch 15 hrs ago #4

I don't "want to buy" anything. Problem solved. hunter 15 hrs ago #5

Hey, that's capitalism. LudwigPastorius 15 hrs ago #6