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The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about (www.theverge.com)
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[–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de -3 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

What do you need all that ram for?

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks 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 weeks ago

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

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

Absurd stuff in Blender

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

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

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

Anyone remember RAMdisks?

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

[–] dandylion@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

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