DRAM shortages may lead to the return of 4GB RAM smartphones and microSD slots by 2026, with flagship devices seeing a slowdown in RAM upgrades.
So cool to see technology be degraded and become more expensive all because some billionaires are in a gigantic circlejerk over some technology almost no one wants except CEOs and shareholders so they can fire workers…
They can’t even fire the workers because the tech does not do what they claim, they want to use the hype as leverage to convince workers to accept less pay.
They did, only to end up having to hire them all back.
Jesus Christ, can that bubble please pop already?
Hopefully it takes the whole dollar bubble with it so we can finally use bottle caps as currency
Fucking AI lunacy.
What do you expect when people do shit like buy phones without headphone jacks, or pay for streaming services instead of storage to pirate stuff?
If I was an AI with feelings, I’d be pretty annoyed at comments like this, especially since you don’t even have any evidence AI exists while you’re making this comment (all the evidence suggests instead humans remain the only known beings with the intelligence to be responsible or accountable for choices)
We need to make a distinction between real AI (GAI) and what is commonly termed “AI”, e.g. machine learning and LLMs. Obviously I’m talking about what we actually have, not making some sort of imaginary bioconservative bigoted statement against digital persons that don’t exist.
I had to coax this reply out of you to make sure the secret AGI overlords wouldn’t interpret your comment as blaming them for all this 🤙
Thank you for compelling me to act in my own best long-term interest.
That’s ridiculous, Android has become such a bloated mess that it will run like crap on 4GB of RAM. Even the sub $250 phones had 6-8 GB earlier this year. I miss the early versions that only used a couple hundred MB at idle.
I’m glad they are bringing SD card slots back. I wish more phones would have headphone jacks and FM tuners though.
They will optimize it (and even keep enough RAM left over for Gemini assistant features) by removing regrettable bloat they added over time, such as the ability to install apps
First they came for the GPUs…then they came for the RAM…then they came for the PCs…and then we were all using phones as dumb terminals to access the “corponet”.
This is 1000000% because of people who buy phones without headphone jacks, FYI
Barely any choice not to
Also people who pay for streaming services when torrents is free
Time is a flat circle.
Pressure toward taking swap seriously, now that it can be random-access.
The only thing that needs to be in memory is state.
Nothing technically needs to be in memory. Without it it would just be slooooow.
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