• YoiksAndAway@piefed.zip
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    14 hours ago

    I’m still getting by with the machine I built in 2016 with what I thought was a beefy 16GB of RAM. Hopefully I can get some cheap parts and build something better after the AI bubble bursts.

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        Depends on what OS your using and what you’re doing on it, but even with windows 16 should be enough, the problem will come if you want to use 3d editing software or video editing software, games should be fine in my experience.

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      12 hours ago

      I used to believe that if I didn’t have video games, I would wither up and die. Then, it was a computer that I needed to survive. Then a phone, and that’s important now because I preach our lords, Jesus Christ and Joseph Smith, but honestly, if ever found myself in a prisonous hell, I would transition back into a woman so at least I could be pretty for all those naughty men, cuz I’m definitely going to the sex fiend ward, I realize now.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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    17 hours ago

    Sometime between November 5th 2024 and Jan 20th 2025 I decided I had better replace my ailing laptop before something drove prices up. I was debating between the 32G of RAM I needed and the 64G I wanted. I am really glad I splurged back then. The way costs have gone between tariffs and AI’s demand for braaainz (plus the fact that vibe coders don’t make any account for efficiency or specs) it feels like I practically got it for free.

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      I’m happy both my PCs have 32 😅.

      Laptop is at 16 but the expansion slot is broken so it is what it is. 16GB on linux is alright for me though.

      I did splurge on a 2TB 990Pro SSD though, that I am so happy about!

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    18 hours ago

    Is this a sloppified version, exacerbating the reason 32 rams is so scarce right now?

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      Give me some of that downvote hate too then, I guess. Safari is optimized for the hardware by the people who make both sides of it. With regards to which browser can most performantly handle two tabs at once, Safari’s gotta be up there if not first.

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        People forget where chrome actually came from. Except Safari gets all of that before the bullshit.

        And we still get the awesome ad blocking extensions

        Edit: Apple gets so much hate, but there are probably the biggest corporate contributors to FOSS. macOS is probably the most famous UNIX/BSD distro for the last 25 years.

        It’s probably on more computers than System V or NeXTSTEP or Solaris ever was

        Shit, macOS IS NeXTSTEP

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          They accelerate emerging standards like USB 4 and UMA that’s being used by other parties now.

          I am no fanboy but I can’t point to hardware or privacy-centric innovations from any other FAANG without Apple’s involvement.

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      Are you pointing to a price-performance degradation or a measurable degradation on hardware with all other factors controlled? The latter doesn’t exist.

      All the SEO slop that appears similar to your link (that I’m definitely not clicking) are for PC builders and nobody is making these outrageous claims for server builders.

      There are workloads that demand a higher memory-to-compute ratio than others. Web server? Throw them a bone sure. But they mainly want computing power. Big database? Can’t have enough, and can’t have them fast enough. Especially when a single index can be multiple gigabytes big.

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      16 hours ago

      Please explain how more ram can cause a greater bottleneck then less ram of the same sku

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        15 hours ago

        Have more ram then the cpu can address

        What worse bottleneck then not being able to boot?

        (If anyone has this problem i will gladly take the ram)

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      Yeah, no, this is telling me my system will choke under any usage type and resolution, but it actually rips through everything I’ve thrown at it.