"how's ram shortage going"

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

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@whitequark Hm, what's a virtual patent?

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

@mer yes. normally you never see them used

@turi polyfuse maybe?

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

@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.

@elexia huh. welp. grim

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

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

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

@M0YNG @whitequark yeah

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

@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.

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

@whitequark Yeah, I have one of those

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

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

@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.