"how's ram shortage going"

✧✦Catherine✦✧

this is trending on aliexpress

RedstoneLP2

@whitequark laptop ram do be short tho

jn (big endian energy)

@RedstoneLP2 @whitequark about 50% shorter than desktop ram

mer

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

0xC0DEC0DE07EA

@whitequark

Arthur

@whitequark Hm, what's a virtual patent?

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

✧✦Catherine✦✧

@mer yes. normally you never see them used

✧✦Catherine✦✧

@turi polyfuse maybe?

✧✦Catherine✦✧

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

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@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.

✧✦Catherine✦✧

@elexia huh. welp. grim

mer

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

Christopher M0YNG

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

James Widman

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

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@M0YNG @whitequark yeah

Phil M0OFX

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

Dmian 🇪🇺

@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.

Juno Jove

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

Ozzelot :runbsd:

@whitequark Yeah, I have one of those