"how's ram shortage going"

[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.

[jn@boopsnoot.de]

@ozzelot @RedstoneLP2 @whitequark finally, highmem

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@jn @ozzelot @RedstoneLP2 incredible

[redstonelp2@mastodon.redstonelp2.com]

@ozzelot @jn @whitequark i've had that issue with "normal" ram in desktop configurations already

[sverx@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@whitequark is laptop RAM really so much less expensive to grant this?

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@sverx the board is like $5

[glowl@chaos.social]

@whitequark
#alt4you
Three RAM adapter thingies for the corresponding DDR3, 4 and 5 sodim modules to their dim counterparts.

[gpowerf@mastodon.social]

@whitequark I'm not against this at all. It's a nice way to recycle your existing laptop RAM.

[datenwolf@chaos.social]

@whitequark What's old is new again:

Back when I built my Pentium-1 I carried over several MiB of RAM on SIMM modules to those new-fangled DIMM slots using a pair of SIMM→DIMM adapters:

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@glowl added, ty

[patterfloof@meow.social]

@chloeraccoon @JamesWidman @mer @whitequark quick, to The Leftorium!

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@datenwolf amazing, i haven't seen those before! (i am just old enough to have touched SIMMs irl)