OP's unrealistic claims also imply that Finland is somewhere on the tail end of the PC innovation pipeline and that 8 GB machines are somehow rare or unfathomably difficult to obtain.trawglodyte wrote: Tue May 13, 2025 6:47 pm The OP claimed that "most" new laptops being sold had 4G of RAM. This was an easy claim to fact-check, which I did and found NONE of the best-selling laptops on Newegg had 4G, in fact MOST had 16G with 32G being the next most common.
I'd like to offer the counterpoint that Remedy, the studio behind games like Control and the Max Payne series, is based out of Espoo, outside of Helsinki. They've been in business since the mid-1990s. There are several other Finnish game development studios that could also bear mention who don't seem to have this problem.
New laptops in Finland may only top out at 4GB... at the price OP is willing to pay for them. Overall, OP is trying to paint the picture of Finnish electronics as bleak, outdated, and being left behind by consumption-driven free software projects (Are free software developers known for being notoriously avaricious?) Instead, he simply makes himself sound angry, regressive, and cheap.
