• jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      I remember buying a car in 2005 and considering if I should buy a hybrid or not. I did the calculations on how long it would take to break even upgrading to a hybrid - taking into account the price of gas at the time.

      I remember thinking “yeah gas is $2 a gallon now, but there’s NO WAY it stays that high over the life of the vehicle.”

  • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    13·
    9 days ago

    I feel like a jackass. I built my son’s PC with 32 GBs of RAM a couple years ago. My buddy built a new PC and gave me his old 32 GBs, which was the exact same brand and spec of the RAM in my son’s PC.

    I tried putting in the new RAM but got a boot error immediately. Rather than taking the time to troubleshoot properly and get it working, I just pulled it out and threw it away. I was like “meh, RAM is cheap and always getting cheaper. If I want to upgrade later, I’ll just buy more.”

  • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
    10·
    9 days ago

    I put my pc together back in 2019 with the plan to upgrade individual parts over the next 5 years. Time rolls around to get a graphics card and they skyrocket. Time rolls around to extend the ram and they skyrocket. I’m so fucking pissed that this extremely reasonable and well thought out plan that I managed to make, one of very few that I managed to make before getting medicated, has been upended by forces that are both far beyond my control and also stupid.

  • otacon239@lemmy.world
    2·
    9 days ago

    I rebuilt my entire setup less than a year before the spike. Also pre-ordered the Steam Deck. I regularly count my blessings with those. I realize just how lucky my timing really was.

  • Cora@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    8 days ago

    I checked what I bought. I got a 64GB pack of RAM (2x32GB) in late 2024 for $119. It is now selling on Amazon for $1,079…

  • DoubleDongle@lemmy.world
    1·
    9 days ago

    Yeah I think it’s time for another Skyrim playthrough, maybe I’ll revamp the old PC for new stuff after the crash