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Shrinkflation Is Quietly Making All Gadgets Worse
Lemmynatedhttps://gizmodo.com/shrinkflation-is-quietly-making-all-gadgets-worse-2000754565
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It’s the new meta.
We stopped clicking “Could X be Y?” and “you won’t believe X” formats.
Now they have a new one: it’s all vaguely a conspiracy and they’re coming for YOU! You’re just not paying enough attention!
That’s all to say people are fucking stupid and online media is exploitative as fuck.
Because these articles aren’t written for those who notice things (it is very frustrating)
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The RAM crisis is not an example of shrinkflation
FauxPseudoThe RAM situation is causing shrinkflaition. The article describes situations where new models will have less RAM than old ones but also cost more.
Why the fuck would they use one of the best computer makers as the main example for this?
Framework?
Because that’s a good example of where you can see things getting more expensive, especially because Framework is modular so the price is very transparent.
Didn’t sound to me untrue, or even critical. It’s just the market right now.
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Ain’t that quiet anymore. Everything’s an obviously cheaply built ad platform
That was my first reaction, too. Quiet? It’s pretty fucking obvious, but people are eating it all up, so whatever..
Okay, yeah, but at least we have slop. Worthwhile trade.