• stinkytofuisgood@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    If you’re young: Let’s start having fun with tech!

    If you’re old: Let’s start having fun with tech again!

    Tinkering and learning skills like soldering and reviving so called ‘e-waste’ is pretty fun and rewarding.

    Old tech is fascinating to learn about and you can choose any era you want!

    Going backwards means going forwards!

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          6 hours ago

          I mean most gaming you can do on ddr4, but when I play I play online competitive (csgo) so it matters slightly more. Most people will be fine with ddr4

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      Yeah man let’s please start posting on our own with sources and facts that aren’t shit online sources out to make a buck with stupid headlines and old news.

      Come on people…

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    16 hours ago

    I mean, for most people, we hit the level of “does more than you could ever want” in the DDR2 era. For the average Instagram normie, what do they need from a Windows 11 PC that a Windows 7 machine couldn’t do?

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      So Linux Mint it is then? (Very “XP/Seven” like system IMO).

      Kids always get the best gear (the shoemaker gets the worst shoes eh) so I was quite astonished that an old 6500T + 32GB (DDR4) is doing absolutely everything I need. It’s been my daily workhorse since at least 2 years.

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      15 hours ago

      Well there’s certainly no improvements in the user experience, but they need more RAM to run all the user analytics and data harvesting

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    Decade-old RAM | DDR4 has returned.

    Wait… no…

    sudo lshw -class memory

    *-bank:0 description: DIMM DDR3 1866 MHz (0.5 ns)

    NOOOOOOOO!!!

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      Laughs in piles of 16 gig DDR3…

      “…but there are so many of us!!!”

      Spirit bombs DDR4 to oblivion

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    My newest Proxmox node in my homelab is a ThinkPad T540p, 4th Gen i5 😂🫣 DDR3 is not dead yet, and to be fair with the f-ed up pricing, it makes even more sense

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    If these dusty shelves had the motivation to sell all of my DDR3…

    …but then again…why shouldn’t we keeps it???

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          Once AI pops companies will shift compute back to their end because a) they have to find some way to use all that hardware, and b) end users are being starved of hardware. Desktop as a service extended to every device you use! Phone, laptop, TV, car, all of it will all have it’s brain in the cloud.

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            AI won’t pop. Politicians are cheap compared to data centers. The governments are just going to print more money to pay for this shit. At least that’s what the cynic in me thinks.

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    Good to know I can at least upgrade my motherboard and processor without having to buy new memory. I ain’t giving up my 32gb.

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    I’m glad I upgraded from 32 GB to 64 GB in like 2022. I was annoyed at the time because the price per-gig had already doubled since I built the computer in late 2020. (And video cards were already more expensive than when I’d browsed in early 2020.)

    Here’s the dumbest part, possibly beating any chicanery about neural networks - it’s because I ran two browsers. I was doing web dev with both Firefox and Chromium, and still routinely thrashing. Linux Mint’s cache behavior was the third stooge trying to fit through that doorway shoulder-to-shoulder, and suddenly thirty-two entire gigabytes was not enough memory to browse reddit in the orange window with video streaming in the blue window.

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      At first I was like he must be on windows, but that’s a quite specific use case you have there :-) !

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    Vote with your wallet. Don’t buy the new/refreshed CPUs and absolutely don’t use any AI products. Address the rrot cause not the symptom.