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[–] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 106 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Cats aren't animals, they're robots. The reason they purr is because they have fans.

Instead of selling him, unscrew the 4 pentalobe screws to remove the stomach plate, which will then expose 2 torx T6 screws to remove the neck plate. This then exposes 3 of the 7 total torx T4 screws for the 3 frame pieces that need to be unscrewed to access the motherboard. Before accessing the motherboard, 6 Philips head screws must be unscrewed and the board then can be pulled out.

Unfortunately, most cats have soldered LPDDR5 RAM chips, and therefore can only be desoldered to extract the DRAM chips, although some models of cat sometimes do have upgradable ram, such as pre 2015 cats with standard SO-DIMM modules (usually 2 sticks from 2 to 4 GB each,) or rare high spec cats which tend to have LPCAMM modules instead (on average being 1 stick of 32gb or higher).

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah, uh.. I'll have some of whatever this dude's having.

I mean... my cat barely remembers that I feed him, and you expect me to believe there's LPDDR5 in there?!? I think my first computer (a Commodore VIC-20 with 5 KB of RAM) was more powerful than my cat's brain.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

well if your cat is orange it only has one braincell.. so that's more of a CPU problem.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nah, he's black & white - I got him from Gateway... Well, the company that licensed the brand name from Acer a few years back, anyway.

ETA: Gateway was well known for their B&W cow-spotted branding on their boxes playing on the fact they were based out in the middle of midwest farm country.

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

This is the 21st century version of A Modest Proposal. I love it.

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So fucking glad I decided to spend a little extra money back in 2022 and get 64 GB of RAM.

Now I have collateral if I want to take out a loan.

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

I can finally buy a house.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 36 points 1 day ago

That will fetch many mewgabytes.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I had to look it up because I didn't believe y'all.

$755 for 64GB DDR5.

I thought I had DDR5 but I guess it's just DDR4 according to my motherboard.

Mother fucker. I could have gotten it for $200 a year ago. I'm at the point where I suggest we start taking ahem excessive action against AI companies.

[–] allidoislietomyself@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In April I bought 2x32 GB sticks of DDR5 for a grand total of $227 at my local microcenter. That same product is $809 today! Outlandish!

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's still less than RAM cost early 2000s, and why HP cases for workstations had beefy locks.

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[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 3 points 1 day ago

I think the shareholders will be doing that for us in the coming year.

[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

All of this has happened before, and it will happen again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal

[–] markz@suppo.fi 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I expected someone selling their cat for ram

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm sure there have been people who sold some catalytic converters that fell of a truck somewhere to buy RAM.

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hello, fellow Ed Zitron connoisseur.

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

No idea who that is

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

Yes, but the US fired regulators and neutered depts. Now that it's a kleptocracy and price fixing is just considered good business.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But how is a global demand shock price fixing? I wouldn't build extra factories to produce the extra memory either. Them coming online would be much later than the likely end of the AI bubble.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Which is why after nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling RAM to consumers - they're converting consumer-oriented operations to focus just on commercial customers.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Probably because it just does not make too much sense right now. I would expect the landscape to shift again soon enough. Maybe they were scraping by for a while and just couldn't carry on. There are many plausible explanations and ram is a commodity market hence very cutthroat.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Read the article & comments. Seems like they were already kinda heading in that direction anyway, but I doubt it was due to just scraping by so much as the ever-present "maximizing profits" business mandate.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

Maximizing profits by increasing price does not work in commodity markets unless you are forming a cartel or monopoly. If your goods are fungible you don't have customer loyalty.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or you could just download more RAM!

https://downloadmoreram.com/

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Helldivers 2’s new beta client is 24GB (current client: 150+GB).

So, I’ve at least had a chance to download more hard drive space

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 day ago

I would downsize my RAM before giving up my cat. My cat warms my lap directly which is more efficient than warming the room with the PC.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I hope this will eventually force people to write non-shitty software again.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Lol, when I was kid whenever I "misbehave" (aka: doing any anything she doesn't like), my mother (we're Chinese American) would joke like "hey, how much do you think you're worth if I sold you back to China? ... probably nothing since you're worthless"

It was kinda joking, but I got half-scared too lol, couldn't tell when she was serious.

She also joked to me she that "found me in a trashcan somewhere" and took me in.

What's with these "jokes" lmfao 💀 I mean its funny but my soul dies a little 🫠

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Damn, she’s kinda a dick

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I mean, I'm not alone, I read a lot of users on reddit Asian communities that also said their parents "joked" about the same thing. I think its some weird cultural thing... Asians, I'm talking about Chinese specifically, tend to just be blunt about everything and joke about everything, like... if you watch enough media of Western vs Chinese Media (which, I know, TV shows is not an accurate representation of life), you notice the differences in how people talk differently.

My extended family members (they're from Hong Kong, we're from Mainland) is also very blunt about things, so its not exactly unique to my parents. Like... I have no idea what a western family dynamic is really like... but from what I can gather on watching TV and movies, there's like a different "vibe" to it.

It's seen as toxic in a western family, but in a Chinese family, that's just a harmless joke.

My mom also called me “肥仔“ ("fatty"?) which... by the tone of her voice, it's supposed to be endearing in a way... like how you call a big/overweight cat a "chonker", but its gets annoying after a while since that's not exactly positive attribute since like she's just say I'm fat and need to lose weight like every so often... apparantly this is a normal thing... in the Asian "overton window" of parenting.

My mom also joked and called me “二公子” (second son [of a noble]) as if we are nobility or something, like I think that's implying that I'm too "needy" like a spoiled child or something... she said it with a positive tone as if its supposed to be endearing... but it feels kinda passive aggressive and sarcastic... like didn't they give me a name (well actually I think that's the paternal grandparents that had the most say in choosing our names), like I have a name, a legal name passed down by my ancestors... that just doesn't exist? lmao... literally just one syllable (first character/syllable of the name can be omitted since my brother shame the same character), its literally easier to use my actual name than these weird joke nicknames that, I dont exactly hate per se, like I don't feel offended or like sad, but its very annoying is what I mean.

I think sometime during my teenage years, I just started "rebeling" and called my parents by their real names... and that's like a big no-no in Chinese culture, you are never supposed to use their real names, you are only supposed to call older relative by their relationship to you. So you can't call an older brother by their name, but they can call you by your name...

I hated it.

So I just started using "死■" to refer to my older brother ([character for death] + [the last character of his given name, which I'll redact for privacy reasons]). I did that ever since I was a kid and learned the death character. We fought a lot.

Wall of Text on Chinese namesFor context: Chinese name are like (I'm gonna use English letters in place of the actual characters, like pretend this is algebra or soemthing):

So, your name looks something like:

Say: The letter F represents your family name, your brother would have ZA as their name, then you'd have ZB, both of you share the Z character, so you just refer to them by their other character that's unique to yourself. Your father would have like XW for their name.

So im summary, your father would have the characters FXW, your brother would have FZA, you'd have FZB, also the AB characters can actually form one word together.

So using 死 and their Chinese character that is in this example represented by the letter A, is how my older brother and I just curse at each other, by insulting the name.

Anyways, enough rambling about Chinese Names

As I got older, I even started calling my parents by their names, I mean... never use the death character on my parents, but I did just call them by their given names, sometimes their full names. At first, they got mad (they were also unhappy about me calling my older brother by his name, but this is next level of "crossing the line"), but then I just use the "This is 'Murica" excuse, and I read on the news that white kids call their parents on first name basis anyways, so I just kept doing that and they kinda just accepted it.

I don't do that all the time, but when I really wanna piss them off, I'll use their real names. xD, fuck tradition

[–] msage@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago

Selling pussy...

[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In my experience, obtaining a cat is free. Everyone is max 3 degrees of separation away from unwanted kittens.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Sometimes they just randomly show up at your door and tell you to let them in and feed them. Then you need to get a box for them to shit in. Next thing you know… you start shitting in a box too… because it’s time for your colon cancer screening.

[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You need to live the anticylic way.... Buy cats and sell RAM right now....

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Cats are a reliable commodity

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That better be a very expensive cat…

…because RAM is this expensive
collapsed inline mediag.skill trident 2×24 GB DDR5 RAM being sold for 16k USD

Although I hope it's just a typo

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Selling my cat for expedited shipping!?!?! Yess

[–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago

Just train your cat to ~~rob~~ get it for free

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

When our cats sit together in the blanket basket I try to auction it to my wife as a luxury gift set.

Most she ever bids is like $75 USD. Good luck.

[–] halvar@lemy.lol 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

that cat would have to become an organ donor for you to even get near the price of RAM

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 1 points 1 day ago

Saving on food & litter costs will help, tho.

[–] cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

Goodbye precious

[–] richie_golds@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Reminds me of my big upgrade a little while back. I wanted a Ryzen 7 7800X3D, which of course meant a new motherboard and RAM too. I was coming from 64GB of DDR4, and while most of the time I didn’t need it, there were times where I did need it, or it was great to have.

I didn’t want to spend the extra money on 64GB of DDR5 memory at the time, and settled with 32GB thinking “it’s fine, I don’t need more than that most of the time anyways, and I can always upgrade later if I need to”. I got 2x16GB, leaving room for two more later on (and allowing myself to graduate from dual channel to that tasty quad channel).

Well, fast forward to now, and… it’s not hard to get close to that ceiling. Between video/audio work, BeamNG.Drive being an absolute pig on memory (the Linux kernel is like “absolutely f****** not”, and boots it out of memory to prevent an OOM situation), and running AI models locally just for funsies, I’ve been thinking about an upgrade.

lol imagine my face when I see how “64GB prices” are now “32GB prices”. And all of a sudden… I don’t really need it anymore.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What’s wrong with DDR4? It doesn’t seem like the price on that has changed for a good few years since I bought mine.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

It's not compatible with newer motherboards. Anybody with the last couple generations of computers can't use it.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

At least you get to keep the memories.

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 1 points 1 day ago

That funny and heartbreaking. Keep this kind of joke for buying groceries.