It's a company named cmxt and they started selling their RAM to the world a few months ago.

However the Western world refuses to use it like they refuse green tech so only people outside the Anglosphere or Western Europe are going to get lower prices.

I hope you're right. I'm looking at €669,90 for 64gb DDR5. In other words, no new PC any year soon, and my current is getting older. I hope it lasts.

the really funny part is that only americans will be in this situation now that the chinese are making their own ram. lol

Removes "warranty void if removed" sticker

I'm afraid not, but we did get the American-sized soda cups. Diabetes is now the height of fashion.

Stupid time traveling brother in law!

Sigh. Did you get the Wall-E far chairs at least?

There were boards that could hold 24 DIMMs. (Memory is fuzzy, but feels right.) Could still hit 12 GB.

You can afford 512MB? Look at King RAM, sitting all high and mighty in their computer palace.

Me, from the year 2030

What's the cure?

512MB? Oh, so your cure is to restrict the RAM so there's not enough to run an LLM. Makes sense... I guess.

I suspected that it might be the case. I have wanted for some time to setup a galvanostatic charge/discharge system at home for battery diagnostics, but haven't found the time yet to do so. Maybe this is the required nudge I need...

Thanks, I'll try to do that tomorrow. Also never heard of upower, so will check that tomorrow.

Amazon and Ebay are not great options for me due to some toll rules where I live. Final prices tend to be quite a lot higher, and shipping takes ages. But of course if I am unable to locate them locally, it might be my only option. I did eventually find one from a producer called CoreParts - need to investigate whether they are legit.

all aftermarket batteries are shit. one of the manifestations of shittyness is that once they're below a certain threshold, the battery controller won't charge them no more. you're advised to never let 'em drop below 20% of capacity. or else.

if returning the things is not an option, you can open them up, find where the cells are connected to the controller and charge them there with an external PSU of commensurate voltage; i.e. if the battery is rated at 12V, you charge em with 12V and say 0.5A whilst constantly monitoring the battery's voltage with an instrument. shouldn't take long, maybe coupla minutes. once it reaches 10-11V, disconnect, plug in to the laptop and it should start charging.

here's me charging a "dead" macbook battery; worked just fine afterwards.

https://defcon.social/@yuman/116680475876205754

1. I would try this.
2. I'm sure Amazon would have them. Or Ebay. Not a fan of Amazon, but they are there for about 30 bucks a pop.
3. Check if you have upower installed and it is reporting accurately. Had a near similar issue and a upower install solved it for me.

I wonder, where would I typically find the schematic? This piece is so small that nothing is printed on it. It has two metal contacts that look perfectly symmetrical on each side, so there are two orientations it could go in.

Even though RISC-V already managed to produce a few footguns ( like compressed instruction stream), I like it overall. It has became absolute smash arch for microcontrollers and it is rapidly rising elsewhere, from linux SoCs upwards.

But above all it is becoming the default base for all these exotic and esoteric new branches that Tenstorrent and so many others are going for.

I'd like to see someone doing smart vector/tensor unit that could do its execution autonomously, once its "shader program" gets filled. And I'd like to see that unit capable of doing its own conditional loops etc while the scalar core goes minding its own business.

Self hosting some file servers. Maybe Jellyfin if it's mostly for Audio and books rather then videos.

Nas

File server would do.

What is that, an a4-3300m? I’m sure you could squeeze Linux into that if you really wanted but it’s a 15 year old dual core.

That's impressive. I'm still using a Proliant N40L as a file server. Works fine.

I foolishly bought mini itx because it could fit 10 5.25" drives in toaster oven sized space.

Five years later and I have to pay 2x for older replacement 2nd hand hardware just because of it's small size. Lol

Lol, same, I'm glad I invested in (thought out, researched) my cases & PSUs.

Neat, post next update in 2045.

it looks really familiar to me and i like the aesthetic.

i don't blame people for not sharing their cases second hand on craigslist if they're this good looking.