Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about

boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• derpgon@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Just get a 256GB SSD and boom, cheap RAM - albeit slow

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Those are also unobtainium.

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  • silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Read/write cycles are absurd with RAM. One good way to break SSDs if I am getting this correctly.

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve already got a 64 gig swap file to complement my 32 gigs of RAM tbh. I just wish I didn’t have to swap lol

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• qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What do you need all that ram for?

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  • Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Since you asked: some games or if running heavy processors for simulated projects

    Not everyone just uses their box for writing emails and surfing TikTok.

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    • T156@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Or for things like video editing. Video editors tend to be quite RAM heavy.

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  • silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Absurd stuff in Blender

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    • tehfishman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      SOMEONE has to render boobies with 30k polygons in 8K, it’s an important foundation of the Internet

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  • dandylion@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    fr. huge war is going on and people worry about playing the latest games on their pcs lol

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    To get rid of swap and mount /tmp entirely in RAM

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    • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Anyone remember RAMdisks?

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      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        remember that ram drive that gigabyte made like 20+ years ago?

        That worked by putting sticks of ram in it, with… i think AA batteries? to maintain the data during power downs?

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  • CovertGogurt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    DCS

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