• chunes@lemmy.world
    141·
    11 hours ago

    I hope this will eventually force people to write non-shitty software again.

  • Richie’s Computer Stuff@lemmy.ca
    3·
    9 hours ago

    Reminds me of my big upgrade a little while back. I wanted a Ryzen 7 7800X3D, which of course meant a new motherboard and RAM too. I was coming from 64GB of DDR4, and while most of the time I didn’t need it, there were times where I did need it, or it was great to have.

    I didn’t want to spend the extra money on 64GB of DDR5 memory at the time, and settled with 32GB thinking “it’s fine, I don’t need more than that most of the time anyways, and I can always upgrade later if I need to”. I got 2x16GB, leaving room for two more later on (and allowing myself to graduate from dual channel to that tasty quad channel).

    Well, fast forward to now, and… it’s not hard to get close to that ceiling. Between video/audio work, BeamNG.Drive being an absolute pig on memory (the Linux kernel is like “absolutely f****** not”, and boots it out of memory to prevent an OOM situation), and running AI models locally just for funsies, I’ve been thinking about an upgrade.

    lol imagine my face when I see how “64GB prices” are now “32GB prices”. And all of a sudden… I don’t really need it anymore.

  • [鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma]|[alt: 黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui]@sh.itjust.works
    13·
    14 hours ago

    Lol, when I was kid whenever I “misbehave” (aka: doing any anything she doesn’t like), my mother (we’re Chinese American) would joke like “hey, how much do you think you’re worth if I sold you back to China? … probably nothing since you’re worthless”

    It was kinda joking, but I got half-scared too lol, couldn’t tell when she was serious.

    She also joked to me she that “found me in a trashcan somewhere” and took me in.

    What’s with these “jokes” lmfao 💀 I mean its funny but my soul dies a little 🫠

      • [鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma]|[alt: 黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui]@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        9 hours ago

        I mean, I’m not alone, I read a lot of users on reddit Asian communities that also said their parents “joked” about the same thing. I think its some weird cultural thing… Asians, I’m talking about Chinese specifically, tend to just be blunt about everything and joke about everything, like… if you watch enough media of Western vs Chinese Media (which, I know, TV shows is not an accurate representation of life), you notice the differences in how people talk differently.

        My extended family members (they’re from Hong Kong, we’re from Mainland) is also very blunt about things, so its not exactly unique to my parents. Like… I have no idea what a western family dynamic is really like… but from what I can gather on watching TV and movies, there’s like a different “vibe” to it.

        It’s seen as toxic in a western family, but in a Chinese family, that’s just a harmless joke.

        My mom also called me “肥仔“ (“fatty”?) which… by the tone of her voice, it’s supposed to be endearing in a way… like how you call a big/overweight cat a “chonker”, but its gets annoying after a while since that’s not exactly positive attribute since like she’s just say I’m fat and need to lose weight like every so often… apparantly this is a normal thing… in the Asian “overton window” of parenting.

        My mom also joked and called me “二公子” (second son [of a noble]) as if we are nobility or something, like I think that’s implying that I’m too “needy” like a spoiled child or something… she said it with a positive tone as if its supposed to be endearing… but it feels kinda passive aggressive and sarcastic… like didn’t they give me a name (well actually I think that’s the paternal grandparents that had the most say in choosing our names), like I have a name, a legal name passed down by my ancestors… that just doesn’t exist? lmao… literally just one syllable (first character/syllable of the name can be omitted since my brother shame the same character), its literally easier to use my actual name than these weird joke nicknames that, I dont exactly hate per se, like I don’t feel offended or like sad, but its very annoying is what I mean.

        I think sometime during my teenage years, I just started “rebeling” and called my parents by their real names… and that’s like a big no-no in Chinese culture, you are never supposed to use their real names, you are only supposed to call older relative by their relationship to you. So you can’t call an older brother by their name, but they can call you by your name…

        I hated it.

        So I just started using “死■” to refer to my older brother ([character for death] + [the last character of his given name, which I’ll redact for privacy reasons]). I did that ever since I was a kid and learned the death character. We fought a lot.

        Wall of Text on Chinese names

        For context: Chinese name are like (I’m gonna use English letters in place of the actual characters, like pretend this is algebra or soemthing):

        So, your name looks something like:

        Say: The letter F represents your family name, your brother would have ZA as their name, then you’d have ZB, both of you share the Z character, so you just refer to them by their other character that’s unique to yourself. Your father would have like XW for their name.

        So im summary, your father would have the characters FXW, your brother would have FZA, you’d have FZB, also the AB characters can actually form one word together.

        So using 死 and their Chinese character that is in this example represented by the letter A, is how my older brother and I just curse at each other, by insulting the name.

        Anyways, enough rambling about Chinese Names

        As I got older, I even started calling my parents by their names, I mean… never use the death character on my parents, but I did just call them by their given names, sometimes their full names. At first, they got mad (they were also unhappy about me calling my older brother by his name, but this is next level of “crossing the line”), but then I just use the “This is 'Murica” excuse, and I read on the news that white kids call their parents on first name basis anyways, so I just kept doing that and they kinda just accepted it.

        I don’t do that all the time, but when I really wanna piss them off, I’ll use their real names. xD, fuck tradition

  • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
    35·
    17 hours ago

    I had to look it up because I didn’t believe y’all.

    $755 for 64GB DDR5.

    I thought I had DDR5 but I guess it’s just DDR4 according to my motherboard.

    Mother fucker. I could have gotten it for $200 a year ago. I’m at the point where I suggest we start taking ahem excessive action against AI companies.

  • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
    1121·
    20 hours ago

    Cats aren’t animals, they’re robots. The reason they purr is because they have fans.

    Instead of selling him, unscrew the 4 pentalobe screws to remove the stomach plate, which will then expose 2 torx T6 screws to remove the neck plate. This then exposes 3 of the 7 total torx T4 screws for the 3 frame pieces that need to be unscrewed to access the motherboard. Before accessing the motherboard, 6 Philips head screws must be unscrewed and the board then can be pulled out.

    Unfortunately, most cats have soldered LPDDR5 RAM chips, and therefore can only be desoldered to extract the DRAM chips, although some models of cat sometimes do have upgradable ram, such as pre 2015 cats with standard SO-DIMM modules (usually 2 sticks from 2 to 4 GB each,) or rare high spec cats which tend to have LPCAMM modules instead (on average being 1 stick of 32gb or higher).

  • BigDiction@lemmy.world
    5·
    12 hours ago

    When our cats sit together in the blanket basket I try to auction it to my wife as a luxury gift set.

    Most she ever bids is like $75 USD. Good luck.

  • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    40·
    18 hours ago

    So fucking glad I decided to spend a little extra money back in 2022 and get 64 GB of RAM.

    Now I have collateral if I want to take out a loan.

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    16·
    16 hours ago

    I would downsize my RAM before giving up my cat. My cat warms my lap directly which is more efficient than warming the room with the PC.

  • SlippiHUD@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    15 hours ago

    In my experience, obtaining a cat is free. Everyone is max 3 degrees of separation away from unwanted kittens.

    • frog_brawler@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 hours ago

      Sometimes they just randomly show up at your door and tell you to let them in and feed them. Then you need to get a box for them to shit in. Next thing you know… you start shitting in a box too… because it’s time for your colon cancer screening.