• who@feddit.org
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    15 hours ago

    Remember how graphics card prices tripled several years ago, and never came back to sane prices?

    Sigh.

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      10 hours ago

      Yeah, but that affected only gamers, now it’s all computer nerds (corpos can switch to thin clients).

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        6 minutes ago

        Only? That makes it seem as though gaming was a negligible fraction of the world’s entertainment time. It wouldn’t surprise me if it surpassed movies before long, if it hasn’t already.

        I think I see your point though: RAM prices affect even more people than that.

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        4 hours ago

        Thin clients still require ram and storage at the terminals and lots of both at the server. If a thin client deployment is not already in place, it will be a huge financial burden for corporations from hardware deployment as well as time lost to employees learning process changes. This is the exact reason large organizations slow roll deployments instead of making fast changes.

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      14 hours ago

      I remember somebody stole like a whole truck of graphics cards. Stealing shit gonna be a very lucrative business as everything gets more expensive and most law enforcement are busy tackling us citizen nurses on their way to work.