"how's ram shortage going"

@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.

@ozzelot @RedstoneLP2 @whitequark finally, highmem

@jn @ozzelot @RedstoneLP2 incredible

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

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

@sverx the board is like $5

@JamesWidman @mer @whitequark @patterfloof Memories of 72pin SIMM boards with 4x 30 pin sockets on them... and if you had 2 slots, you needed to remember to order a left hand and a right hand one...

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

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

@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:

@glowl added, ty

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

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

@whitequark I see. For some reasons I had assumed the laptop RAM prices were surging too...

@patterfloof @JamesWidman @mer @whitequark Okily Dokily!

@whitequark How about the other way around? Don't tell me it won't fit in my lappy, that's defeatist! 🤪

@whitequark makes me think again of selling my laptops ram after i finish uni in the next months, now that its so expensive it could pay my rent for over a month.