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Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399
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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2026
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Give it 10 years and civilians won't be able to own PCs... We will be forced to the cloud computers. And by that time AI surveillance and profiling will already have its infrastructure built.
Its already here. Most "regular" users already depend for most part of there digital life on subscription based cloud computing. Al lot of people don't even own a PC anymore, only mobile devices.
I was there on the first wave of the cloud boom (2012-ish), it's biggest pushers got really angry that we weren't up to give up our computers for "sleek, slim, and elegant" devices that would make wires "obsolete" at least in the home, so we can finally live in a sci-fi movie. They literally wanted us to use "browser app" DAWs that would do it's computing on the cloud, then they realized many of us would like to record music, run live effects, etc.