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.

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.

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.

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

Containerize everything

There's still time.

I see what you did there.

One of the many reasons why we need a new and better browser without all the bloat.