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Why are you crying, Windows user? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 97 points 5 months ago (23 children)

Dude's filthy rich. Wish I had gone with the upgrade I planned to do last fall.

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  • [–] 81 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    Back in 2021 I accidentally bought a 64 GB kit rather than the 32 GB one I intended to. No regrets now but really felt like an excess back then.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago* (7 children)

    64 still feels like excess on a Linux machine... But I got mine back in like 2023-2024 so I got lucky

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Once you start opening programs your OS is basically negligible.

    Sure windows might use 5 gigs of ram on startup. But when you’ve got 100 tabs open using 20 gigs of ram the 3 vs 5 gigs is a drop in the bucket.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    This is why I have learned to immediately max out the RAM on the motherboard for my wife when I replace her machine.

    Some of these webpages are absolutely stupid in how much they load. She likes to have 40 or 50 tabs open all the time.

    Her current desktop has 64gb

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    yeah, i have 32gb and it still feels excessive. even with plex, firefox, steam and discord going i'm only at 8 gigs of usage. all i do on my desktop is game though, i have a server for virtualization and stuff.

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  • [–] 36 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    holy crap tell me about it.

    The server this Lemmy instance is on was bought in August 2024 with 512G ram. I bought another 8x 64G in April 2025 for £610. That is ~£75 a stick of 64G server ram.

    I just bought another server to go along side this and was originally planning to buy the same RAM again. It is now £500 per stick. So I've had to instead donate the extra RAM I bought last year to the new ram-less server.

    So that's £75 -> £500. Absolutely ridiculous. Would have cost me £8000 in RAM when the rest of the server was ~£2k.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    God damn

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    Indeed. Dude my main pc is just a modest last gen r7 32G with decent gpu. And I'm glad I pulled the trigger for the 16g upgrade last year.

    Now I don't personally believe in higher being, but I'll be lying if I'm not nervous everytime I power up the thing. If anything breaks even if I go a tier cheaper I couldn't afford the replacement.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I bought 48 GB DDR5 for my laptop back in September, just before the prices ignited their rocket engines. I paid 120€ I think. Prices now are like 500(ish). Truly insane.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    I got a laptop back in late July for moving abroad. Figured I might as well go big or go home while I had the money and set myself up with 96gb ddr5, the max the laptop can hold. "I might get a desktop later and this way I could take half out of the laptop and use a converter to put it in there".

    It was about $250 for me after tax to get that much ram. Hard for me to find prices on my exact ones but looks like about $900-1200 currently before tax and where I'm at now it would be a 25% vat

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Wish I had gone with the upgrade I planned to do last fall.

    I was considering splashing out a bit for some ram upgrades to my laptop from 2018. It's got 8 gig now, but can support 32. Or maybe just one 16gb stick to start slow, it's got overheating issues.

    I was watching videos from a IT tech about how he gets performance/cooling upgrades from just replacing thermal paste/putty on chips. Oh, I didn't know about putty on non CPU chips, I guess I'll get some of the right thickess from a store near me. Oh no, looks like that's out of stock. Well, I want to replace everything at once.

    Oh here's another place that sells putty, let me get that while I have some time off. Do they have ram too? Oh no, they don't that's ok. I can wait, and get it for myself as a treat for achieving some behavioural goals I have for myself.

    After all, why not? It's late October 2025 , I have plenty of time to buy ram whenever I want to.

    Late October 2025
    Plenty of time to buy ram
    October 2025
    RAM

    Fuckig fUCK FUCKFNGUFKC

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    I kept spending my money on food instead of upgrades. Here's hoping DDR5 drops below 2x its Sept 2025 value in 2027, to coincide with Zen 6.

    I tried to get RAM on eBay. 8GB & 16GB kits are not even being auctioned, and when they are sold their price tag is well over 3x their value, often 4x (GB£170). 32GB sells for 3-4x its value (£260-£320), almost as much as 64GB, which is often going for >2.5x (~£380-£440). If you're desperate or are okay with massive financial waste, eBay is often the cheapest place for 64GB kits, but anything lower is relatively more expensive than just buying from distributors

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    I had been considering getting a decent computer since 2017 iirc. And since then, prices were already rising constantly, no crypto, plandemic, LLMs or fearmongering needed. So my suggestion is, get the upgrade as soon as possible despite the prices, for the "now" seems to always be the cheapest.

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