Do you see yourself as a tankie? Is that why you're offended?

No, that's what tankies say all the time. If you're not of that opinion, why the fuck are you defending them?

But Russia (capitalist) and China (capitalist) are fine, right? Since they don't have democracy at all.

The socialism is optional now. Which is why they love Russia and China, two capitalist nations.

I am. So many proclaimed "communists" don't really care about the whole communist thing, they just want a dictator.

The "leftist" spaces on grad, .ml and Hexbear were SUPER pro Russia last time I cared to see what they were up to. Tell me, in what universe is Russia a communist or even socialist nation? And at the same time, socdems are seen as evil incarnate. China, too, allows for billionaires, but since there's a strong one party rule and they're not allies of the west, they're A-OK too.

I already said I'm talking about tankies, not leftists, socialists or even communists. Tankies just use their so-called leftism as a disguise when really they just worship authoritarianism.

So the difference between a modern day tankie and a socialist is that the former would prefer everyone in the geopolitical west to die or suffer, whereas the latter would prefer socialism to spread to the west.

They tend to hate Western democracy as a whole. If Trump brings about complete Russian domination in Europe and ends elections in the US for good, of course they'd cheer for their comrade.

That's my theory anyway. I don't see modern tankies caring about socialism, that's more of a guise for their authoritarianism fetish. After all, one of their most celebrated countries, Russia, is not at all socialist either.

Mind that I'm talking about tankies specifically. Plenty of leftists out there who are sensible. Asking about the two wars was kind of a litmus test. To me, if you approve of one offensive war, but not the other, you have some heavy geopolitical bias. Tankies are happy when Ukrainians die, but against the war in Palestine. Fascists are happy when Palestinians die, but have differing opinions on Ukraine. If you just don't like people dying and think neither Israel nor Russia is in the right, then you're not a tankie. Oversimplified, but very quick way to gauge whether someone is opposing some geopolitical bloc, or injustice and violence.

Where do you stand on the war in Palestine and where do you stand on the war in Ukraine?

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.

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.

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)