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The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about (www.theverge.com)
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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I'm aware, thanks.

Now I'm just contemplating whether I should upgrade from 32 GB DDR4 to 64 or 128 while it's still within the realm of possibility, or bet on memory prices coming back down within the next few years, and upgrade to an entirely new platform with DDR5 then.

At least I'm not planning on buying a brand new car anytime soon, or even a nearly new one. And my phone's fine for a few more years.

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

Those are also unobtainium.

[–] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

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

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days 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

[–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de -3 points 2 days ago (5 children)

What do you need all that ram for?

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

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

[–] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Absurd stuff in Blender

[–] tehfishman@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

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

[–] dandylion@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

To get rid of swap and mount /tmp entirely in RAM. Right now I only have 32 gigs and a 64 gig swap file to compensate.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Anyone remember RAMdisks?

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days 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?