Is sparing match in this case a competition to see who can afford a PC in 2026? Because you come across as an uneducated dolt who couldn't afford a ham sandwich let alone a stick of RAM.

*Forgot to mention that my previous computer has 64GB of RAM and not cheap arse kingston stuff either.

Errr when did you last look at building a PC? 2022? Right now RAM a 32GB stick of average preforming DDR5 costs more than an entire budget computer did a few years ago. The only reason RAM doesn't represent 50% of the cost of the entire computer is that your GPU also has RAM, and your storage also has memory (which suffers the same problem as RAM right now). A 64GB kit of cheap-arse Kingston RAM costs more than my entire previous computer did.

It used to be a case of spending in order for expense:
1. GPU, 2. CPU, 3. Motherboard, 4. RAM, 5. Storage
Now its:
1. RAM, 2. GPU, 3. Storage, 4. CPU, 5. RAM

If this happens it'll be because of an AI bubble bursting, not because of new fabs. Currently there is very little investment in new fabs. Plenty just means that each company is throwing a token coin at the problem. Oh and literally 100% of those new productions are dedicated to HBM so won't have any impact in the slightest on DRAM prices.

So you've got a bunch of underperforming obsolete equipment which is approaching end of useful life from an electronics wear out perspective and may let you down at a moment's notice? Got it.

I'm with you. I also have an old PC, but I'd like to continue to have a PC going forward, and as it stands I'm starting to see symptoms of memory controller failure hoping that this thing lasts a little longer and that prices will return to normal.

You should, he's the reason you can't afford to replace it if it breaks.

Luxury != power. But sure let's pretend Apple doesn't partner with infamous luxury brand Hermès currently for their products, or that they sold a $17000 gold Apple watch. Let's forget that the Mac Pro had a $50000 model that came with 1.5TB of RAM. It's just another run of the mill company innit....

Horseshit. Porsche does not sell luxury products, they sell high end products. If you don't buy a racing car Porsche is middling at best without any luxury features other than a vroom vroom noise. Again, Luxury != power. You want a German luxury car brand look to Mercedes-Maybach (not to be confused with the rest of Mercedes). That's where you find competitors to companies like Rolls-Royce.

I'm sad for you that you've not experienced luxury to the point where you can't even identify what it is.

I don't understand how copying competitors suddenly equates to slop. Apple has a LONG history of copying competitor designs, just like other companies have a LONG history of copying apple designs. The actual truly unique and innovative products are few and far between.

What the fuck is "cash"? It's not just Apple users who are tool cool for that, in much of the world people haven't used cash for a decade. I've still got a an "emergency" 20EUR note in my wallet. It's been there for 8 years and it's the only cash I've ever carried, except for a 50c coin used to unlock shopping trollies. But that coin sits in the cup holder of my car, not in my pocket.

Signed: Proud Apple hater and Android user.

I didn't say that. I said you have no right to know the name of every individual your tax dollar is being spent on.

You equated it to a right to understand where your money is being spent. My example directly addresses the very core of your point.

Transparency and privacy are not mutually exclusive. Also piling on irrelevant information on people is the antithesis of transparency. It's the dishonest "we told them everything" knowing full well that you gave them so much information that they won't be able to find what they looked for. Telling people the names and phone numbers of everyone working for you is not transparency.

LOL. Yeah what about my posting history would suggest to you that I in any way support government or Trump? Are you off your meds? You have so spectacularly failed to counter my point that you're just making the most easily disproven insults now. Be better man.

But you're right, understanding where tax money goes is important. Clearly we need to direct more of it towards education if people with your level of reading comprehension got spat out by the shooting gallery masquerading as an education system.

On Slashdot? Who are you and what did you do with the user who had the 6 digit UID?

The only projects you listed were all busy work. You moved things to Docker, great. You have a librechat environment and grafana dashboards, great. But none of that is actually having built anything.

Cisco is known for having low-quality programmers in house. When they want something serious done, they often use contractors (or wait until another company does it and then buy that company). A profitable approach has been to figure out what CISCO wants, then build it and wait for them to buy you.

Apple has become average, mediocre even, but calling it slop is too harsh. They aren't that bad. I don't even think it's accurate to call them bad.

Basically I agree with you.

Who's going to hire plumbers when everybody is a plumber you ask?

Why other plumbers of course!

It's plumbers all the way down.