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Cake day: November 12th, 2024

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  • On Lemmy, you get to make your own algorithm to choose which post comes first.
    So you can even go with a most-downvotes-first approach.

    It will matter depending upon what people choose.
    The usual ones on clients[1] are Hot, Top, Controversial, New and Old and the Controversial one has to do with both, upvotes and downvotes.


    1. or is it coming from the server? Yeah, it seems to be provided by the server ↩︎












  • I am going by mainly 2 points:

    • DDR4 being dropped in favour of DDR5
      • What if the places with high quality output end up just staying on DDR5
    • DDR4 being taken by the cheaper manufacturers
      • Ever since seeing how well my old SK Hynix DDR2 has lasted, I have been kinda partial to it. paying $10 - 15 extra to get something that I won’t have to replace for the device’s lifetime (~20 years) makes sense to me
      • The new modules made by the cheaper ones might not end up being as good and reviews may be hard to find as most enthusiasts that do quality testing, tend to do so only when the tech is new (and now that is DDR5)

  • Sadly I am not in a location where people just discard useful parts.
    If I were to try buying 2nd hand here, I would most probably end up with stuff that has some or the other kind of of damage.

    For instance, in one of the companies I worked at, their policy for getting rid of stuff was:

    1. If unneeded but working, then send to another department
    2. If malfunctioning but fixable, get it fixed
    3. If not worth fixing, then auction it off
    4. HDDs? repurpose or shred

    And the auctions occurred years later after much red tape…
    Mostly bought by other companies, who get to do more red-tape stuff to buy it.

    While on one hand, this is a good thing, reducing wastage, it also means that I have no way to get 2nd hand stuff for hobbyist usage.
    In case we do get 2nd hand stuff, it is usually through a 2nd hand dealer, who then ends up with a higher asking price than what it’s worth.


    Also, I am not expecting there to be any AI enthusiast nearby me.