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"everything you care about" - Time to change hobbies and care about things that don't have RAM then.
Maybe because tech has been my main hobby for so long, I don't feel so bad about shaking things up like this yep.
Starts to get into crochet, sewing and knitting.
Until Big Crochet buy up all the materials. Fuck Big Crochet
Then I will start to make my own cordage from nettles. The worse these companies become, the more I will return to monke.
This is the exact reason I bought a lathe and mill.
You joke, but the modern world has actually really fucked textile hobbies. One example is yarn for crochet/knitting. The major producers all moved their production to new countries in the past decade and, along with it, switched to shorter staple fiber (i.e. the individual fibers they make up the yarn are shorter).
Obviously, this makes goods made with these yarns worse, but there is also a growing, though rare, problem from people inhaling the fibers while knitting. It creates a lung disease similar to what someone who was exposed to asbestos experiences (though asbestos is much worse).
There are still ways to get artisanal yarns, maybe without plastic being one of the primary ingredients, but those are generally very expensive.
Big Iron taking all the iron like kung fu panda
Just need to open-source it and print your own.
Rear your own sheep, spin your own yarn and start FOSS
If you are willing to spin the yarn you could probably just get some wool from a farmer for very cheap/free. Its almost worthless.
You could get some from my dog this spring when he gets his annual haircut.
We often joke about making our cat a scarf from all the fur he sheds
Yup. My local shooting range doesn’t need RAM. The archery target in my back yard doesn’t need RAM. The park where I go jogging doesn’t need RAM. My local food bank always needs volunteers, and they’re not handing out RAM to hungry people. My local theater always needs volunteer ushers, and you get to see a show for free.
My garden is far too small to be able to do archery in it sadly. Plus with a path behind it could result in killing someone. Maybe at a push I could manage a dart board somewhere.
Yeah, old consoles and PCs only need 4 mb or less ram and have millions of games :) this is only an issue for AAA gamers.
Half life death match runs on 512 mb no?
Gunpla and reading are really nice ways to pass the time.
I'd be happy to use last gen stuff too
I mean, I can stay on ps5 for another 5 years if needed, I don't really care.