late 2024 is neither 2016 nor is it 2026, it's irrelevant to the discussion.
Oh you're right, I was thinking in the context of self-hosting and not a VPS nor the same era. oops.
Readit Newsiszomer commented on Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts? fourplex.net/2026/01/29/i... · Posted by u/neelc
Did you notice any evidence of triggering in the person you are replying to's post? I didn't, but perhaps you are some kind of triggering-detection savant beyond my understanding
> ..when most people see that their head of state has no moral standards whatsoever,
I’m not a trigger-detecting savant. I just don’t share your or GP’s assumptions about “most people”. There isn’t a single standard -- people here don’t all think alike.
iszomer commented on Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts? fourplex.net/2026/01/29/i... · Posted by u/neelc
I'm not sure this holds up when you look at the actual numbers. In 2016, you could get a DDR4-2400 16GB kit for $81 [1], and a comparable G.SKILL Ripjaws V kit was around $52 [2]. Today (January 2026), that same G.SKILL kit costs $105-146 [3], and most 16GB DDR4 kits are running $95-150 [4]. So RAM is actually more expensive now than it was 10 years ago, not cheaper.
The "did we have X 10 years ago" argument also misses a a lot of modern software requirements. Yes, we had mid-range laptops and budget gaming PCs in 2016, but the memory footprint of everyday applications has exploded since then. Electron-based apps (Slack, Teams, VS Code, Discord) routinely consume 500MB-1GB+ each [5], and it's entirely normal to have multiple running simultaneously. A typical "light" workload in 2026 easily uses 2-3x the RAM that a comparable workflow needed in 2016.
So we're getting squeezed from both sides: applications demand more memory whilst memory itself costs more. An 8GB laptop was perfectly serviceable for office work in 2016; in 2026, it's borderline unusable with a few Chrome tabs and Teams open. The same kit that cost $55 in June 2025 now costs $150 [2, again]. That's a 150%+ increase in six months, pushing capable systems out of reach for budget-conscious users precisely when software bloat is making RAM more essential than ever.
[1] https://gamersnexus.net/industry/3212-ram-price-investigatio... [2] https://gamersnexus.net/news/ram-wtf [3] https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=ddr4+ram+8gb [4] https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/ [5] https://josephg.com/blog/electron-is-flash-for-the-desktop/
In late 2024 I bought a 32GB kit with unbuffered ECC for ~80$ /shrug
The AI of Sauron.
But seriously, when most people see that their head of state has no moral standards whatsoever, they'll follow and drop their own standard even lower. It would be a similar situation if a bishop was openly a drunkard or if an army sergeant was a lazy drug addict.
You can also not take offense to it either and ignore the "slopaganda". The fact that it triggered you shows that it's "working".
There are some near ready foundries in the US and in EU, not to mention South Korea. It would take a few years to catch up of course.
What I worry more about is the full lock-in of TSMC production capacity by nvidia/apple/amd/etc for their chips on their latest and greatest silicon process (aka the best in the world). There is 'no space' for performant large RISC-V implementations or other alternative (and it will require several iterations and mistakes will be made)
Tenstorrent managed to secure TSMC manufacturing capacity, I doubt many other RISC-centric fabless companies would have any issues aside from aggressive competition.
Not Trump specifically but the various prevalent trends of online "cancel culture" experienced for the past decade or longer.
iszomer commented on Grok exposes detailed account suppression information twitter.com/realstewpeter... · Posted by u/gravisultra
> "classification": "Clean / Neutral Low-Impact User",
Guess I don't have anything "impactful" to say on the platform even if it was an LLM hallucination as others (including Grok) have claimed.
> "..nothing matches this specific "OHI_V3" nomenclature or detailed structure -- it's essentially role-play or hallucinated output that's entertaining but not grounded in verified internals."
I find this site so fascinating, seeing how all the massive power lines are hooked up to far-away power plants and gradually have their voltage stepped down as they connect to consumers. All the undersea cables and pipelines I didn't know about.
Right? I didn't know there was a 130 MW (diesel) power plant on an island connected and off the coast of Taiwan.
I assume they're going to sell them at a bit of a loss, but I do wonder too if the RAM cost will force them out of the project for the time being.
They've already ended production for their basic 256GB LCD model; the 512GB OLED is now their new baseline.
It's much more difficult to cool things in space than on earth.