I remember the days when coders prided themselves in making the most from a little bit of memory. We are talking games at 100kb and incredible demos at 32kb.
Nowadays it is Unreal engine slop coming in at 100+gbs that run like garbage.
this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2025
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Johnny Mnemonic's memory doubler.
Whoa, is that a save button irl??
How old fashioned. Nowadays we download more RAM.
How long before OEMs are selling SSDs as RAM?
They tried that (sort of) back in the Vista days. It was called ReadyBoost. Basically it involved using a flash drive to hold parts of the Windows page file instead of using the hard disk.
Given that SSDs are also impacted by this fuckery that doesn't seem hugely likely. However, I've already seen at least one punter suggesting placing your swap file on cloud storage, and at this rate I can't quite tell if they were being facetious or if this is a genuine harbinger of the magnitude of stupidity we're all going to be staring down in six months.
I saw someone who put their swapfile on Google drive
It was incredibly slow and impractical
Just replace your swap file with an LLM. It'll just hallucinate your data as the CPU requests it. Problem solved.
Memory compression is still available today, but it is built in to the operating system.
Only the Japanese edition will save us
That swap partition you like is going to come back in style.
NVMe swap isn’t the worst idea I’ve heard today.
But I'll bet I'm a pretty strong contender.
I'm still running my old 90's computer that started with just 2 MB RAM. All I need to do is use this floppy disk whenever I need more. I'm at 32 GB now and I'll use it again when 64 GB becomes a requirement.
for macintosh
I think the mac guys can afford whatever price for anything
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/mx5n3ll/a/pro-stand
EDIT : You might be thinking, Skullgrid, buddy, that's surely a supplemental accessory stand, and the actual display unit comes with a cheaper default stand , right?
FUCKING WRONG
They sold a 5K DOLLAR , not pixel, monitor that was basically a thin frame, and went, yeah, if you don't want to dump it on the floor, stand sold seperately, at ONE FIFTH of the price of the actual product.
If mac users can afford to swallow this shit, they can pay extra for ram. Which they were doing anyway, since it's fucking iMcRam exclusively anyway.