[Fendii]

I'm totally lost on why you would think that?

Memory breaks.

I had my share of broken memory too. In data centers you see this regularly.

Those are just two different stories. Nothing really connection them to make a scandal out of this

[KirillPanov]

... and the Nord Stream pipeline just spontaneously imploded due to natural wear and tear.

[Gordonjcp]

What's that got to do with old parts failing?

[_jal]

Think of it is paranoia-pareidolia. People see connections that aren't there and build conspiracy theories on top.

[Gordonjcp]

Oh is that like how they switched on 5G on the mast down the road from me and s couple of days later the propshaft UJs in my old Range Rover have developed a squeak and vibration? It must be the 5G and not the 130,000 miles on the clock, right? Got to be the 5G!

[NickRandom]

Or alternately - people like them spew hot-takes in the desperate hope for an upvote or two.

[Fendii]

There are probably billion dram chips in the world.

And all of them need to be so perfect that a billion single cells are refreshed, read and written every few ns.

It's very normal that sometimes a ram module breaks.

That's the reason why ECC exist.

ECC also exists btw for bit flip from space radiation.