this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2025
476 points (99.0% liked)
Technology
76618 readers
2464 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Even ignoring the price hike, if you have to save for months to buy RAM, you should probably save it instead. Doesnt sound like a very smart financial decision to spend every last cent on your PC.
Saving for months ≠ using money earmarked for necessary expenses. I saved for months to buy the parts for my PC, and all of it was discretionary income.
But I otherwise agree that you should not spend your necessary funds on unnecessary expenses.
This is like the fifteenth time I've seen this and it seems unique to Lemmy. You contradict their main point, but concede there is a reasonable undercurrent. I like this a lot. It makes the internet feel a lot less toxic.
Thanks to you and everyone else doing the same!
Reddit and much of the internet was like that a long time ago.
I like to think it came from the higher barrier to entry, kinda like Lemmy has now. One doesn't just accidentally use Lemmy because it was recommended on their App Store feed. You have to seek it out.
It's just really refreshing instead some knee jerk, "You don't know their situation shit for brains!" It's measured to highlight a flaw in the core logic but civil in acknowledging the truth in the nuance. I hope we keep it! Lol.
For some that's their main hobby. If they've got an emergency fund, retirement account, and can cover expenses, why shouldn't they save for their hobby? Seems like they're doing it the smart way.
Exactly. I “save for months” to buy my contacts, but that means setting aside $85 a month so I can drop $1000 every year on a new order of contacts without thinking about it. Saving for months for something is just budgeting.
I just successfully bought from contact lens king for cheaper than I could find anywhere else.
Sort of a sketchy domain name but I got my contacts.
It could be just a kid doing odd jobs to upgrade their computer.
You know the cool thing with RAM is that it's modular and scalable...
So you can get a single 8GB or 16GB module for a few bucks to cover your basic needs and get another one or upgrade when the pricing situation improves.
Sort of, but you dont want to combine two sticks with different timings or frequency. So you gotta buy the high end ones straight away or be forced to remove the cheap one when you add better ones.
Yeah, and slots are limited. So if you get a 4x smaller sticks - i.e. 8+8+8+8 for 32Gb, and find you need 64gb+ then you need to pull out the existing sticks in order to make room for 4x16 or 2x32 etc