Its always rough when you are dealing with a cartel..
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2026
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I mean sure, but this is a plain supply and demand issue.
I'm not sure why you are getting down votes.
The reasons fur the demand sick, but you are correct, demand is fast outstripping supply..... Price rises are inevitable.
Damn the verge now just quotes GN? They may as well just link their video without writing anything, lol. They added nothing to this article.
Not that I can read much of it because of the paywall.
If you click "read mode" (im on librewolf but any firefox fork will do) you can access the whole article just fine.
Ohh that's neat!
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From 12:48 of the video:
Gamers Nexus: "Were you able to lock in contracts for memory with the suppliers directly or did you have to jump through a bunch of hoops or..."
Rep from Valve: "Look there's no contract, there's nothing. Those guys...they are...they give us a price every month, and they say 'you can buy that many', and it's yes or no, and if we say no then they never talk to us again".
Gamers Nexus also links another video they made specifically about the DRAM cartel.
Actual fucking cartel.
I hate micron so much now especially. They basically rug pull all consumers and only sell B2b now. So they can make more money on Ai datacenters.
Problem is there are only a few companies that even sell memory. And micron made it so much worse for the consumer market. I will not forgive, I will not forget.
Yes but giving up profits is not what a company does...
And you say forgive, as if they are your friend or something. Its a corporation. They don't give a fuck about you as a person.
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Is this a Kagi ad lmao
Ngl relatable, I too often mention my interests out of place.
But it's not out of context. Rather it, merely has an existence in which the distance between in-context and out-of-context disappears, and the topic exist as neither related nor unconnected. A bona fide symphrantasia if you will.
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This all so people can rot their brains out to fruit videos...
fruit videos? is there a recent trend I missed?
Godawful AI generated soap opera featuring anthropomorphic fruits.
insert veggie tales meme about the future being AI generated
And so companies can fire the people who do the work (and hire them back later to fix the damage done by the agentic AI), too. Don't forget that part.
Hire them back at a lower pay none the less. People will and are desperate for work, so it won't be difficult.
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