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"There is no DownloadMoreRAM, it's just some guy in a backyard shed." https://downloadmoreram.com/
Actually possible if you mount google drive and move your swap file there.
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I miss the comment tagging system: insightful, informative, interesting, funny. It would make sense for hn.
You forgot Troll, you insensitive clod!
To put it that into context, some tags count as upvotes, others count as downvotes, "Troll" is a downvote. So to have your post labelled as "Troll" with a positive score, it has to have enough upvotes to compensate the penalty from the "Troll" votes, but without having another tag dominate. 5 is the maximum score.
"Score: 5, Troll" is therefore the mark of a very successful troll.
I only buy free-range artisanal DRAM at the DRAM farmer's market.
Technologies that were considered "high-tech" 20-30 years ago are now accessible to regular people. Making DRAM. I remember a video recently of a guy making his own floppy disks. Next I expect people to manufacture integrated circuits that have been discontinued. Like the Z80
This guy is not exactly a regular person. He is a pretty unique case of a talented semiconductor engineer who has a home lab for side hassles. It is not a low effort thing. He runs the equipment 24/7, scrubs all the surfaces in the lab daily to keep it clean.
Still, with the lab and all of the equipment already at hand, it cost him several weeks of work to produce this demonstration of transistors and capacitors, which kind of work, but are still long ways from a "completely complete" 20 bit DRAM chip.
Unfortunately it is simply too much work for one person to maintain a viable semiconductor fabrication process, even when it is done semi-professionally.
Those AI companies and hardware manufacturers lost all right to further dictate and increase prices. Capitalism does not work as de-facto blackmail monopoly - or should not. If a state fails to protect the people, such as in the USA right now under the orange king, then the people need to insist on change. ALL steps against this tyranny from a few superrich needs to end.
Right now the legislation is going in the way how lobbyists want this, e. g. trying to make 3D printing illegal, but I think technology will obsolete such illegal laws eventually. Tyranny will eventually fail.
I only buy free-range artisanal DRAM at the DRAM farmer's market.
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Admit it, deep down, our inner engeering child also wants to build a semiconductor clean room ;)
I do but my days in the fab taught me that you do NOT want people to do this, considering the extremely dangerous chemicals involved. People have died changing EMPTY tanks of phosphine gas used for doping… and HF acid used for etch is another nightmare entirely.
I'm not sure this is what they meant when they said they wanted to bring manufacturing back to the USA lol
I'd pay less for RAM that wasn't "certified" in some official way, at least it works.