"how's ram shortage going"

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

@whitequark Yeah, I have one of those

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

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

[kc@mastodon.dragoncave.dev]

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

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@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.

[jn@boopsnoot.de]

@ozzelot @RedstoneLP2 @whitequark finally, highmem

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@jn @ozzelot @RedstoneLP2 incredible

[sverx@mastodon.gamedev.place]

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

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@sverx the board is like $5

[chloeraccoon@mastodonapp.uk]

@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...

[glowl@chaos.social]

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

[gpowerf@mastodon.social]

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

[datenwolf@chaos.social]

@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:

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@glowl added, ty

[patterfloof@meow.social]

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

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

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

[sverx@mastodon.gamedev.place]

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

[chloeraccoon@mastodonapp.uk]

@patterfloof @JamesWidman @mer @whitequark Okily Dokily!

[thejessiekirk@ohai.social]

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

[zimward@chaos.social]

@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.

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@zimward surreal