"how's ram shortage going"

[mer@mastodon.ie]

@whitequark I'm not much of a hardware person. Is that a converter board from one type to another?

[c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io]

@whitequark

[turi@mas.to]

@whitequark Hm, what's a virtual patent?

[elexia@catcatnya.com]

@whitequark used laptops being plundered for RAM and the rest is trash now I guess

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@mer yes. normally you never see them used

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@turi polyfuse maybe?

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@elexia I don't know whether that is happening, vs. just adapting otherwise not very useful laptop RAM stocks

[elexia@catcatnya.com]

@whitequark heard from some folks that it's getting pretty common to see laptops without RAM cause the RAM costs more than the rest of the laptop.

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@elexia huh. welp. grim

[mer@mastodon.ie]

@whitequark I can imagine. Its interesting to know they exist

[m0yng@mastodon.radio]

@whitequark @elexia suddenly buying a laptop with soldered ram is both great and awful (great if buying second hand now)

[jameswidman@mastodon.social]

@mer @whitequark computer hardware markets only do this when they're in extreme distress

[elexia@catcatnya.com]

@M0YNG @whitequark yeah

[philpem@digipres.club]

@whitequark The IT scalpers near here have started selling laptops with no RAM...

[dmian@mastodon.social]

@whitequark I wonder if all this stupidity will end up raising the prices of the laptop renting contracts most IT companies have with OEMs… interesting times awaits us, if it does.

[jupiter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@whitequark Oh fuck, I need that for my 128 GiB of DDR3 that I would love to move to a 5800X3D ...

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

@whitequark Yeah, I have one of those

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

@jn @RedstoneLP2 @whitequark But using these adapters makes it tall! So tall it won't fit in some positions in some configurations.

[kc@mastodon.dragoncave.dev]

@whitequark using these would be the only way to get my desktop's RAM situation even more cursed than it already is

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@whitequark The fact this goes all the way down to DDR3 makes me think that these actually far predate the RAM shortage, but point made nonetheless, lol.