Also part of the 32 GB DDR4 club here; I'm considering waiting for DDR6 and 128 GB lol

Nothing in modern society works without computers, so everything will get a bit more expensive with DRAM and NAND chips multiplying in price. Hell, wages may go down at low margin businesses dependent on computing.

It's not apocalyptic by any means, but it's just more salt in many wounds.

For us gamers, RAM is a once every 5 or 10 years expense. If you buy it more often, you're just wasting money most likely. Businesses may buy a lot of new computers every year, or they might use cloud compute services that will also get more expensive.

I've had PyCharm max out 3 or 4 CPU cores out of the 6 I have :/ I do have several million lines of code indexed by it though

Well I mean the 3 DRAM manufacturers that matter all made the decision to ramp down consumer RAM manufacturing. OpenAI alone is buying up 40% of all global DRAM production.

Given all the financial fuckery going on with OpenAI and the AI and hardware industries in general, I'm pretty sure this is intentional price fixing.

So there's three companies that make almost all the DRAM and they're now all ramping down production of consumer RAM.

They've also done price fixing in the past.

I don't think much math needs to be done.

On the one hand, I 110% agree with you

On the other hand, it's so damn convenient. They cache your shit and they protect you from DDoS attacks, and they do it for free*

*Until you're big enough to warrant extortion from them.

Atom was kinda revolutionary in its plugin support and everything IIRC.

Well, now that Atom has been replaced by VSCode, which is also an electron app, the original Atom devs, or at least some of them, are creating Zed. Zed's written in Rust and uses a lot less memory.

Of course it's not yet as mature and they're trying to earn money by integrating AI and selling that as a service. BUT the AI is voluntary and even if you do want to use it, you don't have to pay to use their AI (which comes with a free tier if you DO want to use it), you can literally run your own model in ollama.

It's not perfect, but I love how little RAM it uses compared to VSCode and (shudders) the Jetbrains suite (which I normally love, but hate the RAM and CPU usage, it can drive my computer pretty slow)

I want to use Matrix so bad, but my bridges to Telegram and Signal just... stopped working, completely. After which I promptly gave up on it and let my domain expire a few months later (the domain I'd had for 1.5 years, Matrix was the first thing I actually did with it lol).

I think there's technical reasons for that. It looks like (and I may be wrong) they grab the YouTube website and show you a modified version of that, instead of requesting just the video from the server. This may be useful because YouTube changes how its API works sometimes to throw off 3rd party clients.

How's this a fyigm situation? He left 5 years before this particular thing happened, he had no say in it.

Now if he has actual need for these employees in his new company, I could see him hiring them there, but his new studio is in California and those employees were sacked in the UK, meaning they need a new job in the UK to keep living there. He also currently has fewer employees than the amount that R* fired. That's how small that shop is.

His brother, however, is still an exec at Rockstar. He, along with the rest of R* and Take-Two leadership has a lot to answer for.

The ones that were fired 5 years after he left R*? I mean, it'd be nice if he did, but is he really at fault here?

Well yes, it's antivax slop and an anti-antivax comment pointing out how ridiculous it is