how to download more RAM

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lauha@lemmy.world · 118 pts · 231d (4 replies)

I like self hosting so I set up my swap space on multiple floppy drives. All I have to do is swap disks when my machine requests.

cornshark@lemmy.world · 57 pts · 231d

So that's what the name "swap" refers to

slazer2au@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 231d (2 replies)

ActionRetro is that you?

Dude ran a webserver on raid 0 array of floppy disks.

pieland@piefed.social · 11 pts · 230d (1 reply)

https://youtu.be/1hc52_PWeU8

link to the video, for anyone curious :)

and a link to the follow-up video as well!:

https://youtu.be/PGWpGMrroi8

juipeltje@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 230d

That's awesome lol. I think i remember watching a bunch of HaikuOS videos on his channel a few months ago. Looks like he makes some great content.

zloubida@sh.itjust.works · 87 pts · 231d

anistorian@lemmy.world · 84 pts · 231d (5 replies)

This seems like it would create a lot of unnecessary latency and dependency on big tech. He should set up a home server and host his own ram.

cornshark@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 231d

If your ram sever crashes you might lose all your critical memory. Better to have Google host and maintain it.

MrChewy@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 231d

That seems like a really cool idea. I hope someone makes an operating system for home servers, or servers in general for just that.

Tho, I feel like it would be kinda niche for anything else unless the popular things get so bad that people who research find about it and try to use it for daily drivers.

It would take a really long while for it to get adopted en masse, but would be a cool project idea.

I'll write that down, thanks! :D

4am@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 230d (1 reply)

I self host all my RAM using minIO (RIP) and I back it up to b2. It’s a great way to gedoogle.

ranzispa@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 230d

Backing up ram sounds like a terrible idea.

DODOKING38@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 230d

Yah Linus did a video on it and it didn't go well in fact the PC crashed

Loce@lemmy.world · 78 pts · 230d (7 replies)

Dont give them ideas... I can already see it, RAAS - "Ram as a service"

Enzy@feddit.nu · 31 pts · 230d (5 replies)

50€ per GB

Loce@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 230d (4 replies)

Only 499$ / year

Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 230d (1 reply)

Still cheaper than buying two sticks of RAM today

InFerNo@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 230d

Just bought 2 sticks for 469€ (32GB DDR5). Price might still go up, maybe 499 per year would have been the better choice, we'll see in a year I guess.

Enzy@feddit.nu · 5 pts · 230d (1 reply)

600 499 one time deal

*GB not included.

InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 230d

That trash island is overrated anyway /s

shalafi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 230d

Already is if you're running a cloud server.

SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 231d (2 replies)

L100 cache

87Six@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 230d

Sometimes from Somewhere Access Memory

lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 230d

Lgoogol cache?

Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 62 pts · 230d

200ms lag for ram sounds like an exercise in patience that I will not succeed at.

needanke@feddit.org · 52 pts · 231d (1 reply)

This is whatever the opposite of edge-compute is.

Loid@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 231d

Middle computing at its finest

allriledup@piefed.blahaj.zone · 37 pts · 231d (7 replies)
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MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 30 pts · 231d (1 reply)

Didn't there use to be an unlimited tier?

allriledup@piefed.blahaj.zone · 24 pts · 231d
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Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 20 pts · 231d (4 replies)

And they are also using 1% of the petabyte, it's 10,000 GB, i wonder what are they doing lmao

lauha@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 231d (1 reply)

No, it shows they are using 471GB and df command rounds up to 1% when you are using more than 0, which is more accurate that showing 0% imo.

Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 13 pts · 231d

My bad, didn't read that

_NetNomad@fedia.io · 7 pts · 230d

they have three tabs open in chrome

4am@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 230d

They’re doing whatever the fuck they want lol

krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 230d

He knows the deep magic.

Long has prophecy foretold of the one who will download more ram.

We laughed. We poor nonbelievers.

Now he will change the world.

emotional_soup_88@programming.dev · 19 pts · 231d (6 replies)

There's a gdrive frontend for Linux?

Ooops@feddit.org · 29 pts · 231d (2 replies)

There is a fuse driver to directly mount it using the google API...

https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse

emotional_soup_88@programming.dev · 8 pts · 231d

Sic! Thanks!

n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 230d

You the real MVP

Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de · 21 pts · 231d (1 reply)

Rclone supports most cloud storage, including gdrive. Probably not what was used here, but it's super useful

emotional_soup_88@programming.dev · 4 pts · 230d

What a gem! Thanks for letting me know!

enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 230d

if you use gnome & nautilus, you can access googlw drive directly inside nautilus.

gravitywell@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 231d

apt install zram-tools