TLDR: build a time machine and invest everything you can into Microsoft in 1993. Then, start a first rate dildo mail order service. Call it Dil-post. By the 2000's you'll be perfectly positioned to take the place of Amazon, but your sights are higher. You will start sending free DVDs of gorilla bdsm with every dildo order. This takes off and you start your own gorilla DVD vending machine side business. It'll be called Go-spank. When 2008 crash hits, you are completely isolated in your tower of dildo/gorilla money. Fast forward to 2026, you can now afford 32gb of the DDR you seek. Cha-ching brother, you made it.

This really is crazy. I paid around 110 € for 32 GB DDR5 in late 2023, today the exact same RAM is 550 €.

I lucked the fuck out and got my build done 1 week before this started. Same kit i got for 90 costs 375 now

Soon we will only be able to log into government computers via ai.

I should've bought that 2TB SSD for Linux drive months ago

My procrastination will haunt me for the next few years 🙃

Do I flip my month old 128gb or simply sit upon my castle?

I had 32GB of RAM in my desktop as 4x8GB; one of the sticks failed a couple of years ago, and it was cheaper to replace it with 64GB = 4x16GB than it was to get a replacement 8GB.

That's convenient for work purposes (in fact, I could actually do with more) but massive pointless overkill for most games. Even games which do "big loads" - Witcher 3, say - aren't noticeably quicker from RAM cache than they are off of an NVMe drive.

Buy second hand hardware, and put a new SSD in it.

Whether you’re comfortable with these no-name mini PCs is something you’ll have to decide for yourself, but that’s a fully functional PC with 32GB of DDR5, a 1TB SSD, a workable integrated GPU, and a Windows license for $500. You’d spend nearly $500 just to buy the RAM kit and the SSD with today’s component prices; for basic 1080p gaming you could do a lot worse.

Interesting... I wonder if they're reliable.

1. Steal

I was just planning to buy some bolt cutters and then burgle an Altex.