It isn't magic but RAM doesn't tend to just stop working. You'll start getting reported error correction events on a bad dim before it might fail which usually means it's replacement time.
If you can't install something like EndeavourOS or tumble weed then you likely were not going to be able to reload an os anyway.
Installing vanilla arch is a very useful activity to do at least once so you know how the system works but don't have to use vanilla Arch and can use any of the derivatives so long as it has the latest kernel / drivers for your hardware.
It's still not that common to have one die. Servers have ECC memory which can get you by longer even as a DIMM starts to die. It's also rarely run at speeds consumer RAM is run at.
The thing with server memory is when you get to point where you have hundreds of servers and each one has 12 to 24 DIMMs the chance you have a bad one somewhere increases.
Bunch of people complaining about electron in this thread but I'm happy it exists.
Without electron you would get way fewer Linux apps and often no GUI to go with them.
The RAM usage is high sometimes but I have 128gb and unused RAM is wasted RAM. I don't care how much something is using until it starts to swap or gets oom.
I've also grown tired of the NYT sane washing Trump's horse shit. Every time he does some obvious grift they have someone in to waffle about how it's unprecedented.
The real issue and what those AI dependent companies are banking on is that they can capture a user base and when OpenAI starts to reach the end of the road with LLM improvements and moves to the extract phase it can buy these little companies to ingest their user base.
Everyone else in that space will be instantly fucked since they will now be competing directly with openai while paying their margin but that's the bet they are making.
Nah, I could afford nice shit but I'm still using a ubiquity edge router 8 from 10 years ago.
There is probably something to be said that there is an in between to those two extremes. The "my network is made of a Hodgepodge of shit my employer threw out that still seems to work and brand new things I replaced because I had to"
Yeah, probably should just black bag them all and let Ecuador sort them out.. .