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What Good Night Stories Are You Telling Your Ram Sticks To Extend Their Lifespan?
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5 hours ago 81.1K views 0 shares
What Good Night Stories Are You Telling Your Ram Sticks To Extend Their Lifespan?
Someone's tucking their RAM sticks into a box like they're precious children being put to bed. Because apparently, treating your hardware with the gentle care of a bedtime story is the secret to longevity. Next thing you know, they'll be reading "Goodnight Moon" to their SSDs and singing lullabies to their GPUs. The dedication is admirable though—most of us just yeet our old RAM into a drawer and hope it doesn't oxidize into oblivion. But hey, if whispering sweet nothings about low latency and stable voltages makes your DDR4 last another year, who are we to judge?

Comparing 4 GB Ram Performance On Linux And Windows
Linux Hardware Microsoft Windows
1 day ago 139.1K views 0 shares
Comparing 4 GB Ram Performance On Linux And Windows
Linux with 4GB RAM: absolutely jacked, running smoothly, could probably compile the kernel while hosting a web server and still have memory to spare. Windows with 16GB RAM: barely holding it together, wheezing after booting up because the OS itself decided to consume 8GB just for existing, plus another few gigs for Windows Defender, telemetry services, and whatever Cortana is doing in the background. The efficiency gap is wild—Linux distros are engineered to run on a potato if needed, with lightweight window managers and minimal bloat. Meanwhile, Windows comes pre-loaded with enough background processes to make Task Manager look like a phonebook. You need 4x the RAM just to achieve the same level of performance, which is both hilarious and slightly depressing if you're stuck on Windows.

Electron Jxl
Webdev Security Javascript Programming Frontend
1 day ago 133.5K views 0 shares
Electron.Jxl
Someone woke up and chose violence against Electron apps, and honestly? They're spitting facts. The rant reads like a manifesto written by someone who just watched Slack consume 4GB of RAM to display text messages. The whole "webapps were not supposed to have life-altering effects" bit hits different when you realize we're literally running entire operating systems inside Chrome just to display a to-do list. We went from "write once, run anywhere" to "download 300MB just to check your email." And that Telnet joke? Chef's kiss. Because apparently wrapping a website in Chromium and calling it "native" is somehow more secure than protocols from the 70s. At least Telnet was honest about its lack of security. The kicker is the "REAL Web Development" gaslighting at the end. Yeah, building a 500MB Discord client that's just a glorified browser wrapper is definitely what Tim Berners-Lee envisioned when he invented the web. We've been played harder than a fiddle at a bluegrass festival.

Download More Ram
Linux Devops Hardware Bash Programming
2 days ago 194.5K views 0 shares
Download More Ram
Someone actually did it. They literally downloaded more RAM. By mounting Google Drive as swap space, this absolute legend turned cloud storage into virtual memory. The df -h output shows gdrive:swap with a whopping 1.0P (petabyte!) of "available" space. Sure, your page faults will now require network requests to Google's servers with latency measured in geological epochs, but hey, technically you did download more RAM. Your system will be swapping at the speed of your internet connection instead of SSD speeds. What could possibly go wrong? The "alcohol won't affect my child" format perfectly captures how this is both technically brilliant and completely unhinged. It's the kind of solution that makes you go "wait, that's illegal" even though it's not.

Space Complexity Is The Most Important Thing Now
Algorithms Hardware Programming
2 days ago 208.4K views 0 shares
Space Complexity Is The Most Important Thing Now
Welcome to 2024, where RAM costs more than your kidney and suddenly everyone's rediscovering DFS like it's some ancient wisdom. For decades, BFS was the go-to for graph traversal because who cares about O(n) space when RAM is cheap, right? Just throw more memory at it! But now with the global RAM shortage and prices skyrocketing, developers are frantically switching to DFS with its beautiful O(h) space complexity for tree traversals. The irony? Computer science professors have been preaching space-time tradeoffs since forever, but it took an economic crisis for devs to actually care about that queue eating up all your precious gigabytes. Stack-based recursion is having its redemption arc, and somewhere a CS101 professor is saying "I told you so."

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How Much Ram Is Recommended To Run Nord VPN?
Windows Security Hardware Programming Debugging
3 days ago 209.2K views 0 shares
How Much Ram Is Recommended To Run Nord VPN?
NordVPN's "threat protection service" casually munching on 52GB of RAM like it's protecting you from an alien invasion. Meanwhile, Chrome with 13 tabs is sitting there at 636MB looking like the responsible adult in the room. When your VPN service needs more memory than a professional video editing suite, you know something has gone horribly wrong. Either they're storing the entire internet locally for "protection" or someone forgot to delete a debug statement that logs every packet to an in-memory array. The real threat here isn't online—it's to your system resources.

Dad Saw Ram Prices And Chose Violence
Hardware
3 days ago 241.4K views 0 shares
Dad Saw Ram Prices And Chose Violence
Nothing says "I love you, son" quite like your dad sending you a picture of himself wielding a rocket launcher with "lol" as the only caption after you ask for $800 RAM. The man looked at DDR5 prices, looked at his bank account, looked at you, and decided that warfare was the more reasonable option. Dads will drop $2,000 on a riding lawnmower they'll use twice a year but suggest upgrading your PC and suddenly they're sending you threatening memes. The audacity of asking for computer parts when you could just "download more RAM" is apparently grounds for comedic violence. At least he has a sense of humor about denying your hardware upgrade dreams.

Happy New Year
Hardware Gamedev
5 days ago 151.3K views 1 shares
Happy New Year
You know that New Year's resolution you've been recycling since 2019? Yeah, the one about building that dream gaming rig. You've got the PCPartPicker tabs open, you've watched every Linus Tech Tips build guide twice, and you've definitely calculated the price-to-performance ratio of at least 47 different GPU models. But then reality hits harder than a segfault in production. GPU prices are still doing their best cryptocurrency impression, and those "budget" RAM kits somehow cost more than your monthly coffee budget. So you push it to next year. Again. And again. At this rate, you'll finally build it in 2026 when the RTX 9090 Ti drops and your current laptop literally catches fire from running VS Code with more than 3 extensions. The eternal cycle of the aspiring PC builder: dream big, check prices, cry, postpone, repeat. At least your wishlist is well-maintained and version-controlled.

Ramageddon
AI Hardware Programming
5 days ago 198.2K views 0 shares
Ramageddon
Nvidia out here playing 4D chess: invest billions into AI, watch AI models consume ungodly amounts of RAM to load those massive parameters, then realize you need more RAM to feed your GPUs. It's the perfect business model—create the demand, then scramble to supply it yourself. The AI boom turned into a RAM shortage so fast that even Nvidia's looking around like "wait, where'd all the memory go?" Fun fact: Modern large language models can require hundreds of gigabytes of VRAM just to run inference. When you're training? Better start measuring in terabytes. Nvidia basically funded their own supply chain crisis.

PC Gaming In 2026
Hardware AI Gamedev
5 days ago 197.8K views 0 shares
PC Gaming In 2026
The gaming hardware industry has officially entered its villain arc. While gamers and PC builders are just trying to run games without selling a kidney, AI companies and RAM manufacturers are in bed together, hogging all the sweet DDR5 modules for their data centers and AI training rigs. The joke here is that by 2026, the unholy alliance between AI tech giants and memory manufacturers will have completely squeezed out the consumer market. Your dream of building that 64GB gaming rig? Sorry buddy, those sticks are busy training GPT-7 to write better code than you. The betrayal is real when the components you need are being diverted to feed the machine learning beast instead of your Cyberpunk 2077 addiction.

I Knew I Should Have Listened To Him…
Hardware
8 days ago 278.3K views 0 shares
I Knew I Should Have Listened To Him…
That guy who made a 10-year-old video begging you to buy just ONE stick of DDR5 RAM? Yeah, he was a prophet and nobody listened. Now you're stuck paying the price of a used car for memory modules while he's somewhere saying "I told you so." The real tragedy is that 4.5M people watched this wisdom and collectively thought "nah, I'll wait for a sale." Spoiler alert: the sale never came. DDR5 prices went up faster than your technical debt, and now that single stick costs more than your entire first PC build. Time travel is real, it's just locked behind YouTube recommendations trying to warn us about our future financial mistakes.

The Best Decision I Ever Made
Hardware
8 days ago 281.3K views 0 shares
The Best Decision I Ever Made
Nothing hits quite like the satisfaction of upgrading your rig right before RAM prices go absolutely bonkers. You're sitting there with your fresh DDR5 sticks, watching everyone else panic-buy at triple the price, and suddenly you feel like a financial genius who timed the market perfectly. The RAM market is wild—prices can literally double overnight due to factory fires, supply chain issues, or just because the tech gods felt like it. Getting in before the "RAMocalypse" is the PC builder equivalent of buying Bitcoin at $100. You didn't plan it, but you'll absolutely brag about it. Meanwhile, your buddy who waited "just one more month for better deals" is now contemplating selling a kidney to afford 32GB. Timing really is everything.