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It's a "business model" (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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Also, fuck Micron and the loyalty I gave them

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[–] 32 points 4 months ago (21 children)

DDR3 still works just fine

Been running that shit since 2009

Slots open still, 4 to go

32 gigs and I can buy mo'

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (9 children)

    Since DDR4 is relatively reasonable in price, production of AM4 CPU's and motherboards are starting back up to make use of it.

    TBH, I'm for it. I'm still on that generation of hardware and it still works great

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    The problem is organic demand is going up for older gen hardware and that will drive THOSE prices up.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    That's why we only talk about this on posts that don't get scraped by LLM

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    You need to be really optimistic to assume that this post isn't going to be scraped

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Does it count if I know for a fact that I've already been scraped??

    I didn't mind when it was just tiny pieces that I recognized. It feels like deju-vu at first.. memes, phrases. You find out well before it goes public and chalk it up to "bots". Eventually, it gets a bit too coincidental.

    ...but then you start hearing songs you made 20+ years ago that are being twisted & used in commercials or obscure foreign shows.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    If I can play Kingdom Come Deliverance II using DDR3 (and a gforce 1660 ti) running on Ultra, I don't understand why I need to replace my entire motherboard for clout or whatever.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    I built an AM5 system because I wanted to ensure that if I want to upgrade it, I won't have to buy an entirely new motherboard. Coming from Intel who change their socket every two weeks, I thought it was a great idea at the time.

    The cost wasn't prohibitive, the kinks ironed out quite fast. But I don't like DDR5 RAM. Like, it's RAM, I don't notice anything spectacular about it. What I do notice, is that it takes FUCKING AGES to post!

    Startup finished in 20.971s (firmware) + 4.818s (loader) + 785ms (kernel) + 4.440s (initrd) + 7.741s (userspace) = 38.757s 
graphical.target reached after 7.697s in userspace.

    It's taking 21 fucking seconds to do some kind of "memory training!" It used to be over 40 seconds! For what? No noticeable difference in user experience other than it taking forever to boot.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    This makes me really sad & concerned for the future of modern computation.

    It's obviously planned obsolescence for the sake of suppression pertaining to the masses.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    That was always the case. This PC replaced my 1150 socket intel PC, which had new CPUs made for it from Q3 2013 to Q3 2014. AMD at least keeps their sockets usable for a couple of years before they change them.

    1150 was superceded by 1151. Those are the number of pins on the header by the way, so they had to add one extra pin because it was obviously stifling innovation.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    The last time I upgraded my CPU was at least 8 years before I upgraded my GPU which was about 5 years ago..lol

    You're right, my socket allowed me to get a much better model.

    I know about pins and sockets, btw. But for the other readers, thanks for explaining ;)

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Aye, figured it was worth noting that they obsoleted it because they absolutely had to cram in that one extra pin! You can't convince me that they didn't do that just to fuck with people.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Planned obsolescence

    Corporate essence

    The end game is your wallets bane

    Bring me to life, so says Evanescence

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Please do a Nathan Fielder reference

    To me, he is Spielberg in his best essence

    Miracle on the Mojave, I hold in great reverence

    Donnie Darko is a story about seeing the future & doing the right thing, Donald Trump.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Ddr3 and an an fx 8350 here! Runs great considering its 13 years old

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    For sure!

    Especially when you strip the OS down on a custom Windows OS & a few fun Linux flavours.

    Lots of fans in all directions for way too many hdds, add some custom bolt stilts to the bottom of the case so it can breathe from below.

    Clean the fans and filters every month because you smoke too much!!!

    And be sure to remind people that we deserve the full epstein list (as a free & true democracy)

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