Post B21cMvxWPotc9jLtGy by surfhosting@mastodon.pirateparty.be
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 (DIR) Post #B21cMvxWPotc9jLtGy by surfhosting@mastodon.pirateparty.be
       2026-01-06T18:06:12Z
       
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       I've been "covering" (by boosting) the impact of genAI scumbags like Sam Altman on pricing in the couchlab segment, but on a personal note I'm so irritated, I'm finally really bumping against the limits of 32GB DDR4 on my laptop and upgrading to 64GB is wayyyyy out of reach now. I have to wonder if any fabs may restart DDR4 production, apparently some motherboard manufacturers are releasing new DDR4 boards again.my existing plan for my server fleet (of 3 Proxmox hosts) was to remain on DDR4 for at least one more upgrade cycle with the two services boxes, while upgrading to a DDR5 system for my personal/dev host. none of that is likely to happen in 2026 so it's not that big a deal there, I do eventually need to upgrade the box which has 32GB but hopefully the bubble will pop before then.
       
 (DIR) Post #B21cN5rVb21mrycEHw by surfhosting@mastodon.pirateparty.be
       2026-01-06T18:09:14Z
       
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       anyway I've seen speculation that a silver lining might be that it forces software devs to consider memory efficiency for a while. I certainly would like that. my problem on my laptop is that I tend to run multiple browsers at once, and huge browser sessions. to some extent I can reduce the impact by further sharding my browser sessions by topic. it's a pain but I've needed to do another round of this for a while.
       
 (DIR) Post #B21cNESfckVVXY41K4 by surfhosting@mastodon.pirateparty.be
       2026-01-06T18:11:20Z
       
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       (I'm an *extreme* tab hoarder, in large part because of how my flavor of ADHD attention works, combined with being cognitively "CPU bound" and subject to having my attention to a given topic pre-empted by sensory overload)
       
 (DIR) Post #B222EyK8KyQtyunCdc by psys_@mk.hotolab.win
       2026-01-07T01:27:08.836Z
       
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       @surfhosting@mastodon.pirateparty.be I'm still hanging in here with my 96GB of DDR3... for now.