• orioler25@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I think it’s interesting (and probably telling) that this comment section is largely concerned about consumer gaming memory than like, the cumulative cost increases that this creates in a computer-dependent global economy.

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      5 hours ago

      We had been wasting RAM like it was free. Nobody was optimizing anything. The impact on actually productive activity will be minimal.

      The main danger these companies pose to the economy is when the bubble pops.