Comment on Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse

henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Switch to retrocomputing; it’s currently significantly more affordable.

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  • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Not a bad idea. How do you actually partake that hobby? Is it more the same building things or the challenge of getting old hardware/software working?

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    • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      A mix of both; finding old gear and combining parts to restore functional units, repairing where needed and learning more about how the systems work in the meantime.

      And older SIMMs and DIMMs are relatively cheap right now — you can create a maxed out system for its era and still do everything on the computer that was possible to do when it was new.

      There’s even great web proxies for older systems now, so if you want to, you can browse the modern web on a computer from 1996.

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      • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Well hey, I appreciate the recommendation. Maybe it’s time to get back into Windows 98 gaming. Just like mom used to make.

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      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        There’s even great web proxies for older systems now, so if you want to, you can browse the modern web on a computer from 1996.

        Please tell me more.

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  • notthebees@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I really need to get a new display replacement for my old vaio f series laptop. The screen layers are doing the funny vinegar thing. That and some sort of ssd. Maybe a USB Dom or some msata thing with a converter board.

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• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  IMHO there’s much hobbiness and fun to be had with creating a second or third life for “outdated” hardware. The current RAM crisis leaves me cool, on a 2014 ThinkPad. My kitchen server was a 2008 HP laptop.

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  • percent@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What does a kitchen server do?

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    • serpineslair@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Serves kitchens

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      • 0ops@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        “Your kitchen, sir”

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      • percent@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        🤔 ah, I suppose that makes sense

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    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I used to have a static IP at home so I cold run my own physical server. I stuck it under the fridge because there were wall plugs and I didn’t want it in my living room. Hence the name.

      It used to serve NFS shares locally, websites and CalDAV/CardDAV globally. A dual-core-but-32-bit stone old intel processor, 2GB of RAM, and never a performance problem.

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  • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What’s funny is that ding this makes it kinda obvious how incremental a lot if improvements really were. Like on paper DDR5 is MUCH better than DDR3, but somehow my old gaming machine is only a little slower than a new system playing shit that I actually run.

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    • amorpheus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Software has also gone to shit performance wise, few things really get optimized anymore and there’s frameworks and containers behind everything.

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      • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        For sure. Buying higher performance machines didn’t get us better performing games, it just got us lazy developers.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  it would be more unaffordable once people dont have jobs from all the layoffs.

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