Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices

• U7826391786239@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  yep. i took out a loan early in the year to build my new pc, knowing this ai shit along with the tariffs was going to make prices bonkers af, and i needed an upgrade anyway. 8% interest on a couple grand personal loan is better than paying 4x the price in cash

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  • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    took out a loan early in the year to build my new pc

    Are you okay?

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  • stevedice@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Are you legitimately insane?

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    • U7826391786239@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      sometimes i think that. but i can just look at the news on any given day and feel like i’m further to the right on the sanity bell curve

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  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yikes you’re literally financing your hobby! Better financial move is to get a used system to start with (usually a used gaming PC can be had for like $500ish, and I’m sure there’s plenty of people online you can ask for help speccing something out), squirrel away money for a couple of years (I like to keep a dedicated savings account just for big purchases like tech upgrades. $40 biweekly dissearing into another account you don’t touch is $2k every 2 years, so a 4 year complete refresh cycle for 2 people) and buy when you feel like it. Good news is it’s a small enough amount of cash to easily right the financial ship but still yikes!

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    • U7826391786239@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      yea, i do a lot of dumb shit with money. gonna blame my parents for passing financial dumbness onto me

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      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Hey it’s never too late to get things better under control! My parents only just started that journey and they’re old enough to be grandparents

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