• Ricky Rigatoni@piefed.zipEnglish
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    11 days ago

    all that ram is for my many virtual machines i planned to run and never did because i didn’t actually get any practical use out of them

      • Ricky Rigatoni@piefed.zipEnglish
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        11 days ago

        Unfortunately I can’t run windows 7 in a docker container for the lickable aero theme and nostalgia. The KDE aero themes just don’t feel the same either. Lots of subtle things missing.

    • ThotDragon@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Back in 2021 I accidentally bought a 64 GB kit rather than the 32 GB one I intended to. No regrets now but really felt like an excess back then.

    • lazynooblet@lazysoci.alEnglish
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      11 days ago

      holy crap tell me about it.

      The server this Lemmy instance is on was bought in August 2024 with 512G ram. I bought another 8x 64G in April 2025 for £610. That is ~£75 a stick of 64G server ram.

      I just bought another server to go along side this and was originally planning to buy the same RAM again. It is now £500 per stick. So I’ve had to instead donate the extra RAM I bought last year to the new ram-less server.

      So that’s £75 -> £500. Absolutely ridiculous. Would have cost me £8000 in RAM when the rest of the server was ~£2k.

        • gajahmada@awful.systems
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          11 days ago

          Indeed. Dude my main pc is just a modest last gen r7 32G with decent gpu. And I’m glad I pulled the trigger for the 16g upgrade last year.

          Now I don’t personally believe in higher being, but I’ll be lying if I’m not nervous everytime I power up the thing. If anything breaks even if I go a tier cheaper I couldn’t afford the replacement.

    • lyralycan@sh.itjust.works
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      11 days ago

      I kept spending my money on food instead of upgrades. Here’s hoping DDR5 drops below 2x its Sept 2025 value in 2027, to coincide with Zen 6.

      I tried to get RAM on eBay. 8GB & 16GB kits are not even being auctioned, and when they are sold their price tag is well over 3x their value, often 4x (~GB£170). 32GB sells for 3-4x its value (~£260-£320), almost as much as 64GB, which is often going for >2.5x (~£380-£440). If you’re desperate or are okay with massive financial waste, eBay is often the cheapest place for 64GB kits, but anything lower is relatively more expensive than just buying from distributors

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      Wish I had gone with the upgrade I planned to do last fall.

      I was considering splashing out a bit for some ram upgrades to my laptop from 2018. It’s got 8 gig now, but can support 32. Or maybe just one 16gb stick to start slow, it’s got overheating issues.

      I was watching videos from a IT tech about how he gets performance/cooling upgrades from just replacing thermal paste/putty on chips. Oh, I didn’t know about putty on non CPU chips, I guess I’ll get some of the right thickess from a store near me. Oh no, looks like that’s out of stock. Well, I want to replace everything at once.

      Oh here’s another place that sells putty, let me get that while I have some time off. Do they have ram too? Oh no, they don’t that’s ok. I can wait, and get it for myself as a treat for achieving some behavioural goals I have for myself.

      After all, why not? It’s late October 2025 , I have plenty of time to buy ram whenever I want to.

      Late October 2025
      Plenty of time to buy ram
      October 2025
      RAM

      Fuckig fUCK FUCKFNGUFKC

      • Samskara@sh.itjust.works
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        11 days ago

        A Laptop from 2018 has an older DDR version, than the current ones. So less affected by high RAM prices as current ones.

  • Owl@mander.xyz
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    11 days ago

    elon musk inherited an emerald minefrom his father, but your child will inherit 32 full gigabytes of ram

      • Mihies@programming.dev
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        11 days ago

        Nope. Running a windows guest for legacy development (50GB for few bigger visual studio projects and other related apps) then Rider, Android Studio, IntelliJ, podman and other apps native on Linux, often switching between them. 128GB is a bit much even for this, but it is never bad to have same free space just in case. The only downside is that I bought 4 DDR5 modules only to later find out that they put a break on speed as AMD really prefers 2 of them.

        • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          11 days ago

          50 GB in memory for a visual studio/programming project being a bigger project seems like rather an understatement, unless you’re working on machine learning, simulations, or something of that nature.

  • sudoer777@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Don’t forget to allocate the rest to Firefox, and your swap as well since that’s still not enough

  • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Now launch one (1) web browser and watch an elephant drop on your sofa.

    The OS is no longer relevant to memory usage, really, not in the way it used to be. The amount of memory required for a usable desktop is peanuts compared to the amount required to run a few web-apps.