I'm seeing all this shit on YT, forums etc. >DDR5 prices at 400% >SSDs are next>you won't be able to afford a PC>Win11 is Satan's anus>AI will replace you, spy on you>you will own nothingThe thing is, for over a decade we have been stuck in this stupid hype-for-new-tech upgrade cycle. Suddenly 4 cores was no longer enough, 16 gigs of RAM not enough, 2TB being the go to size. PeeSeaMastaReis, RGB, wireless. Where are the tech improvements though? Games looks worse and play worse than shit that came out in 2007. People are on fiber now, but webpages still take a few seconds to load. I use my computer the exact same way I used it when it was a big white box, paired with bulky 14'' CRT - watch movies, listen to music, play games, write code. AI is only useful for cutting down time on googling something, but then you still have to check if you can trust it, same goes for code troubleshooting, it's good for finding typos, but terrible for suggesting optimizations (which it does unprompted, and no, that toString() fucking stays!).I'm actually thinking this: all this price hike and shortage isn't the end of the world. It's back to sanity. 4 cores, 8GB, iGPU, 512 SSD isn't shit. It's still going to play music, movies and vidya (still a better machine than I ran Crysis with when it came out). Normie-friendly Linux distros have been a thing since Mandriva and Ubuntu, but now they cover gaming too (Cachy, Bazzite, Nobara).We haven't been progressing for over a decade, yet buying more expensive hardware to have the exact same (or worse) experience. I have a shitty low-tier Thinkpad the sole purpouse of which is to play music, movies and emulate arcade games through Fightcade for when friends visit. That thing is hooked up to a 4K TV and does fine, I use it more than my beefy desktop, just because of the couch-experience. IMO, a GPU or DDR5 stick could cost 10K bucks and it still wouldn't care. Whatever computer you have, hasn't been obsolete since 2015.
*rapes you and leaves without reading your thread*
>>107648301Good post, Anon. I've been having similar thoughts on the whole thing.
>>107648301Wow you must really be underage if you think this shit is new or that price hikes never have happened before. >you will own nothingOh you're one of those kind of retards
>>107648301this is kinda based but what if software just says fuck you and raises requirements anyway?
>>107648439>Oh you're one of those kind of retardsBy quoting someone else? Explain your logic? Or maybe you didn't read the post and don't understand what green-text is?I also experienced all the price hikes that happened before and always just endured. My upgrade cycle is between 5-6 years and that was only because of things like this >>107648451 Last upgrade I did was in July and after a week I realised it wasn't necessary, it was something I was planning as part of that cycle, had the money, pulled the trigger and it was stupid. Now my biggest bottleneck is the keypress delay setting in my OS and general wireless interference becoming a meme when every peripheral is running of a 2,4 dongle.
>>107648301You're one of the .0001% of people that actually has the time/inclination/patience to do all that stuff.The remaining 99.9999% of the populace will just pay the $1,000/mo for compute access or be forced onto the street and OD on fent
