Steam Deck OLED stock runs dry in the US, and Valve's Steam Machine prep and the RAM crisis are likely why
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Valve's Steam Deck OLED models are out of stock in the US, and the RAM crisis looks like it may be responsible again.
  • rotopenguin@infosec.pubEnglish
    4·
    2 hours ago

    My biggest regret is not getting a whole crate of 2TB intel SSDs when they were going for $70. “Surely, this is a sign that prices are just getting better and better!”

    • 9point6@lemmy.world
      45·
      11 hours ago

      Rocking 64GB on my desktop after an opportunistic upgrade a couple of years ago and barely using 32GB most of the time

      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        2 hours ago

        I had 32 GB of ddr4 3200 speed Corsair.

        About a year ago I found a new in box 32GB Corsair exact same set of ram I had at a bin store and bought it for a whopping… $5.

        I have no need for 64GB, but even a year ago $5 ram was just way too cheap to not buy.

      • vortexsurfer@lemmy.world
        6·
        8 hours ago

        Mine has 48GB. Started with 16, but a few years ago the pc started crashing/freezing randomly. I assumed it was because of bad ram, so I just bought a new set of 32GB, since it was pretty cheap, but the crashes continued after switching to the new ram. So I added the old 2x8gb sticks back in and now I have 48.

        Turned out it was the cpu that was bad.

    • assembly@lemmy.world
      11·
      10 hours ago

      Maybe browser devs will take this opportunity to start working towards memory optimizations. That’s where the majority of my memory goes and that includes Electron apps.

      • boboliosisjones@feddit.nu
        14·
        10 hours ago

        I feel like the art and interest in optimisation has been almost lost. When we made performance gains it was seen as an opportunity to bloat operating systems and websites, or simply neglect to optimise them.

        Remember when auto playing videos were a massive no no? Now that nono is not muting your auto play videos. Not to mention a single website running hundreds of trackers.

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    20·
    11 hours ago

    I just had to replace some ram I bought 5 years ago. I would’ve normally expected the price to have dropped 50% in that time if not more. Instead it went up like 40%.