I wish Sam Altman to encounter difficulties every time he had to use bathroom and increased chance of his phone fell to the toilet all the time.
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2026
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If I become anarchist, trying to burn data center with AI inside, will I be Robin Hood?
Steal the RAM from the rich and give to the poor
First the rich took our data. Then ownership, privacy, money, rights, now RAM. next will be our organs.
maybe we can have a ram:btc chart...🤣
I'm so glad I bought this book years ago
I was saving it for a retirement hobby project but looks like I will have to open it sooner than I thought.
IDK at the current price trend, maybe we're approaching a point where having sweatshops make ferromagnetic memory modules in GB sizes. I'd better start building a couple of hangars for my GPU memory.
Paywalled
Insert one (1) RAM stick to read full article
One stick of downloaded RAM coming right up
Does this mean no smart fridges?
Coz that would be cool
i'd be willing to suffer another year of ram shortage if that meant all smart devices fucked off
maybe we could even see actual physical buttons on devices again! i miss buttons and toggles
Mr Brightside checking in
I think calling it a RAM shortage is a bit incorrect. It is not like we are running out of raw materials or something else in the supply chain is broken. It's shitty AI companies buying RAM that is not existing yet with money they don't have. Unfortunately there's no good term for that, I guess.
I like electron finance
Their exact location cannot be pinpointed; instead, they exist in a probability cloud where they are likely to be found at any given time.
That's what this hype cycle is founded on. If I lend you $5, you have $5 you can lend further. Now, we each still have a right to $5, so we can lend that debt obligation again for $4.50. Now we have, somehow, a market value of $19.
Until someone looks, then it's probably 0.
The term was well established centuries ago.
FRAUD
Unfortunately there’s no good term for that, I guess.
Market manipulation?
Yes there is: it's a Ponzi scheme (AI companies will fail when they get no new funds to pay off the stockholders)
Are they paying off stockholders?
It’s called Imaginary Economics.
It tends to happen right before a capitalist system fails.
It tends to happen right before a capitalist system fails.
How often does this happen that we can claim this correlation? 🤔
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It's a racket, plain and simple. There used to be laws against this sort if thing.
It's a racket, plain and simple. There used to be laws against this sort if thing.
Keyword: used to
I hope that it was worth it, and that America is great again. Let me just check some news articles... Oh my
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Frustratingly this is not just affecting the current generation of devices, but the previous one too. DDR4 RAM (which I use in my desktop) has gone up 300% since I bought it a few years ago.
Here's hoping that nobody needs to replace current or previous gen hardware if it breaks in the next 2 years...
I overbuilt my system when I bought it and am glad I did. I also prioritize heat management.
Yeah so glad I went with 32GB when ram was cheap.
Same. Spent about 65 € I think, now it's looking like > 200 €
Yeah even used ram is going for like 2x-3x the price I bought it at new. I just checked and similar capacity (4x 8GB) at lower speed (3200 compared to 3600) would cost me about 300-400€ now. And I paid about 70-80€ back then
Looking at me 2 x 32GB DDR4 systems 😌
Fuck Sam Altman
Don’t be fooled: if RAM had the chance it would kill everyone and everything you’ve ever loved.
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It’s not just desktops, it’s phones and laptops and consoles
Good thing I don't care about any of those things enough to pay the rip-off prices. I'm fine with my 4 year old phone and 10 year old PC. If they crap out then I'll replace them with some cheap old crap. I don't need high specs, there isn't much worth running these days.
And used prices will surge as more people make the same decision as you
Unfortunately it isn't just the high end stuff which is feeling the crunch. These AI companies have bought up all the production capacity, which means there is less low-end stuff being produced. We're still coasting on existing stock at the moment, but as that runs out prices will rise across the board.
As the article explains, you will indirectly pay.
Any product that contains RAM or any service that relies on the use of computers at scale, is going to pass the operating cost (the cost of sourcing RAM) onto the consumer.
And these prices will never go down again. Even when shortages end, costoners will be used to the higher prices, and companies will be used to charging them.
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