Comment on RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives

• eli@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And new computers can break.

  Might as well never buy anything because everything can break!

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    that’s not my point. relying on old hardware as the de facto solution for a long term drought will eventually see the planned obsolescence of having them fail without replacement.

    we will eventually not have old computers we can turn back to.

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    • eli@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah and the stuff releasing right now will be “old hardware” in 5 years.

      I’m still gaming on a Ryzen 1700X. And my GPU is a used RTX 3080 I bought off eBay for $500 two years ago.

      That 3080 was over $1000 during the GPU craze last time. And what was I using before that 3080? A 1080ti I bought at MSRP, which I still have and is my backup because hey, it’s nearly 10 years old and still works.

      I’m not saying go buy a dual core Pentium, but “old hardware” isn’t some boogeyman and “we will eventually not have old computers” is like saying we’ll never have old cars.

      And guess what, if everyone stopped buying all this overpriced crap then prices would come down, but we all know that isn’t going to happen.

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      • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        if no new cars are produced then yes, we would run out of used cars eventually.

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