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13 Feb 2026, 6:47 pm

I hate the future! The future is s***!


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13 Feb 2026, 7:38 pm

Welcome to AI :(


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16 Feb 2026, 8:26 pm

The RAM crisis is reshaping who gets to build PCs

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3060135 ... -fast.html


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18 Feb 2026, 3:42 pm

exec wrote:
The RAM crisis is reshaping who gets to build PCs

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3060135 ... -fast.html


Yeah. A year ago, I was looking at buying one of those mini PCs that you can hold in the palm of your hand. The price for the one I was looking at was around $125. Now, the same PC's run around $350. I saw one on Amazon for around $300, but it had no RAM and no hard drive.



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18 Feb 2026, 3:47 pm

kokopelli wrote:
exec wrote:
The RAM crisis is reshaping who gets to build PCs

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3060135 ... -fast.html


Yeah. A year ago, I was looking at buying one of those mini PCs that you can hold in the palm of your hand. The price for the one I was looking at was around $125. Now, the same PC's run around $350. I saw one on Amazon for around $300, but it had no RAM and no hard drive.
Gawd ... that bites :(


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18 Feb 2026, 3:51 pm

exec wrote:
kokopelli wrote:
exec wrote:
The RAM crisis is reshaping who gets to build PCs

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3060135 ... -fast.html


Yeah. A year ago, I was looking at buying one of those mini PCs that you can hold in the palm of your hand. The price for the one I was looking at was around $125. Now, the same PC's run around $350. I saw one on Amazon for around $300, but it had no RAM and no hard drive.
Gawd ... that bites :(


They even had some a year ago for about $75 to $80. I had thought about getting some to use for DNS and DHCP servers.