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Scientist says RAM pricing has risen to normalized 2007 levels, AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months — memory prices had been falling exponentially for decades (www.tomshardware.com)
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[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 days ago

There are plenty of IRC clients that don't use electron.

[-] BlackVenom@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I think it was a comment on the use case for an app not really changing but the resources to run it bloating significantly.... E.g. software running on a computer with MB of ram then and now the app alone requiring GB.

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