“I’ve been saving for months to get the Corsair Dominator 64GB CL30 kit,” one beleagured PC builder wrote on Reddit. “It was about $280 when I looked,” said u/RaidriarT, “Fast forward today on PCPartPicker, they want $547 for the same kit? A nearly 100% increase in a couple months?”
Even ignoring the price hike, if you have to save for months to buy RAM, you should probably save it instead. Doesnt sound like a very smart financial decision to spend every last cent on your PC.
Saving for months ≠ using money earmarked for necessary expenses. I saved for months to buy the parts for my PC, and all of it was discretionary income.
But I otherwise agree that you should not spend your necessary funds on unnecessary expenses.
This is like the fifteenth time I’ve seen this and it seems unique to Lemmy. You contradict their main point, but concede there is a reasonable undercurrent. I like this a lot. It makes the internet feel a lot less toxic.
Thanks to you and everyone else doing the same!
Reddit and much of the internet was like that a long time ago.
I like to think it came from the higher barrier to entry, kinda like Lemmy has now. One doesn’t just accidentally use Lemmy because it was recommended on their App Store feed. You have to seek it out.
It’s just really refreshing instead some knee jerk, “You don’t know their situation shit for brains!” It’s measured to highlight a flaw in the core logic but civil in acknowledging the truth in the nuance. I hope we keep it! Lol.
you sound like a guy i know who wanted to be a car mechanic but failed to qualify for the job on account of talking too much shit; but they hired him as a car sales instead with commission so his salary got 8x higher. of course he always gives financial advice now that he’s rich. for example, you shouldn’t buy a house near the city if you can’t afford one. you shouldn’t buy a car if you can’t afford one. and you shouldn’t buy a mobile phone and a subscription if you can’t afford it.
so if we break it down, his advice is: if you have a shitty job that pays you poorly; you don’t deserve to live in any kind of proximity to your shitty job, you should also have no means of transportation to said shitty job (because you now live far away from the city and would actually need a car to get to your job), nor any means of bank and digital ID access (to receive your shitty salary, because its priced outside of the bare minimum wage you’re forced to subsist on).
I bet it comes with a condescending “you really need to think things through” attached, too. I’ve ran into the type before.
naturally.
it’s the whole “if you can’t afford it, it isn’t for you.” attitude that pisses me off when society is literally turning into a place where just breathing costs you money. it’s such a common attitude among people well off as well. they all think themselves ‘deserving’ of their quality of life and anyone beneath it is simply not deserving. while they did absolutely nothing to get their position beside rolling dice.
another guy i know got his job through his dad who owned the business. he has been making very good income since day one out of school (and i mean, for this guy, and the other guy - they have no degrees because back then you didn’t need one to get good jobs); but after his dad retired 20 years ago they have slowly been tearing apart the job and making the conditions crap. so he actually quit a few months ago and now he is still making some 70% more than my salary on government welfare based on his previous salary and he has the gall to complain that he can’t figure out his economy. like bro, you’ve been giving me life lessons on money management and telling me i shouldn’t live outside of my means and now that you took a hit to your income but still have 70% more than me then suddenly the economy is too hard to manage? take your own damn advice for once and cut down on your frivolous expenses lol. like, do you really need to buy that camera part which costs 4 times your salary? is it vital? how often do you use the camera, once every 3 years? yeah i don’t see you bleeding mate.
Clearly people dont seem to like my take and its sort of expected. I also despise the whole “just dont by those avocados if you cant afford them” thing that rich people loving pushing. But damn if it takes “months” to save up 280$ then you are basically living paycheck to paycheck. I feel like i would prefer having an extra 280$ of emergency savings in that situation rather than slightly fancier RAM sticks.
Obviously lots of assumptions there. Could just be a kid saving up pocket money. Could be someone that earns plenty of money and just decides to only spend a very limited amount on hobbies.
For some that’s their main hobby. If they’ve got an emergency fund, retirement account, and can cover expenses, why shouldn’t they save for their hobby? Seems like they’re doing it the smart way.
Exactly. I “save for months” to buy my contacts, but that means setting aside $85 a month so I can drop $1000 every year on a new order of contacts without thinking about it. Saving for months for something is just budgeting.
I just successfully bought from contact lens king for cheaper than I could find anywhere else.
Sort of a sketchy domain name but I got my contacts.
It could be just a kid doing odd jobs to upgrade their computer.
You know the cool thing with RAM is that it’s modular and scalable…
So you can get a single 8GB or 16GB module for a few bucks to cover your basic needs and get another one or upgrade when the pricing situation improves.
Sort of, but you dont want to combine two sticks with different timings or frequency. So you gotta buy the high end ones straight away or be forced to remove the cheap one when you add better ones.
Yeah, and slots are limited. So if you get a 4x smaller sticks - i.e. 8+8+8+8 for 32Gb, and find you need 64gb+ then you need to pull out the existing sticks in order to make room for 4x16 or 2x32 etc