I've been "covering" (by boosting) the impact of genAI scumbags like Sam Altman on pricing in the couchlab segment, but on a personal note I'm so irritated, I'm finally really bumping against the limits of 32GB DDR4 on my laptop and upgrading to 64GB is wayyyyy out of reach now. I have to wonder if any fabs may restart DDR4 production, apparently some motherboard manufacturers are releasing new DDR4 boards again.
my existing plan for my server fleet (of 3 Proxmox hosts) was to remain on DDR4 for at least one more upgrade cycle with the two services boxes, while upgrading to a DDR5 system for my personal/dev host. none of that is likely to happen in 2026 so it's not that big a deal there, I do eventually need to upgrade the box which has 32GB but hopefully the bubble will pop before then.
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2026-01-06 18:06:12 UTC
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