>>106298757
>RAM is dirt cheap
No it isn't. We are looking at a swing of $10 USD for 4GB of DDR3 to like $300 USD for 128 GB of DDR5. All the people saying spend as much on RAM as possible are brainwashed consooooomers.

>>106300879
I'm a developer. I listen to Youtube videos while programming, and have never come close to using all 8GB of my RAM, even with caching. Buying more RAM would literally be a waste of money as it would give me no benefit. Even the programs I write use much much less than 100MB of memory.

You only need more than 8GB of RAM if you are playing modern games (where 16-32GB will suffice) or running AI models. Buying RAM that will never, ever be used is literally throwing hundreds of dollars in the toilet.