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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 86 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And here I am, I bought DDR5 in November and now I've got a billion dollars of assets. All from hard work.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

You should lease the RAM out, you will never have to work again. Become a RAMlord

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 16 points 1 month ago

I bought 256gb of ddr5 when Trump took office.

Assuming tariffs were gonna be the thing.

Lmao.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Second hand is the way now

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sure, but prices are going up on that as well as demand rises.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 month ago

Yea butu you'd rather help out a seller by ridding him of his stuff than paying even more to a company that gives 0 shits about you

Either way the prices are high but in one case the prices are always objectively lower and at least you're not supporting this circlejerk industry

[–] AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social 25 points 1 month ago

We have recently discovered that we have 2x16GB RAM stored in a drawer. Together with all the RAM that is currently in our PCs, server and laptops, I think we can safely retire with those assets alone.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] milk@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you can find a cheap Xbox 360 the soft modding scene is also very good these days with BadUpdate and BadAvatar

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sure. But that system might be a bit too old for some folks. PS4 has relatively recent bangers, still.

Nothing's too old if it can play Sonic '06

[–] Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Too old? I've seen, in this decade no less, single-digit aged children play Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing and having a blast, what are you on about?

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I said some folks.

but idk, my perception of gaming might be way off. I thought the older kids these days (who want to build their own PC) wanna play REVII remake, or the Red Dead Last of Spiderman Hades 2.

The only kids I know wanna play minecraft (bedrock).

[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

Got some cousins around that age, they wanted to build a big beefy pc to play... Valorant or Minecraft

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah same, my father in law wanted to replace his computer and I had to tell him the market is fucked right now. Luckily I was able to source him a pretty decent DDR4 system. Still more expensive than it should have been, but I got a good deal and it was within his budget. DDR4 is probably going to last him 10 years, as his old system was also 10 years old.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

my current laptop has been owned by me for about 7-8 years. The hardware itself is firsthand but created 2016-2017.

I'm so fucked

[–] M137@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

My younger half brother, 13yo, just bought a PC with his own money that he'd saved for years. He gave me a link to one and I told him he can easily get much better specs than that for the same price, and told him I'll help him get the parts and build it. He told me he would and then about a week ago he told me he'd just bought the one he found at first... I just feel like saying "that was dumb, now you'll have to spend more sooner to upgrade because it can barely handle the games you wanted it for." but I won't, not that harshly at least. Still think he should have just given the money to our mom or his dad so they could have stopped this from happening.

[–] TomMasz@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago

Well, kid, what's your credit rating?