The RAM crisis and the PC apocalypse

[Kamen Rider Blade]

They do sometimes fall into fountains and such.

If you're not maintaining proper SA (Situational Awareness), life might come get you in unexpected ways.

23 y/o wearing Stereo Earbuds couldn't hear Helicopter falling from the sky, ultimately killing him.

A friend said that Otieno, 23, a student at the College of the Rockies, was out for a walk and was wearing stereo earbuds, so he might not have heard the falling helicopter.

Otieno was hit by the Bell 206 helicopter as it came in low and dragged 10 to 15 metres before being trapped under it when it crashed. Witnesses told CBC News they tried to pull him from the wreckage but efforts to save him failed.

You don't know what might happen when you're out in the world, maintaining SA is paramount to survival, even the weirdest things like Helicopter falling out of the sky might get you.
That's one reason why I don't like wearing ANC (Automatic Noise Cancelling) EarBuds when outside.
Hearing is one of your important senses to maintain situational awareness.

 

[SatrianiRules]

They do sometimes fall into fountains and such.

oh yes and there have been deaths, people falling into ditches and walking into traffic

 

[Set Harth]

I would love to see that. Off to YouTube we go.

I want to say it was on the television news! But I really don't remember.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

I want to say it was on the television news! But I really don't remember.

Ooh found a couple. Can't vouch for how genuine some of these are but some of them were funny

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[Rincewiend]

Looks like the marketshare for HDDs will rise again...

 

[Santaman]

Not only the marketshare, the prices are equally on the rise..

 

[Owain Taggart]

That's one reason why I don't like wearing ANC (Automatic Noise Cancelling) EarBuds when outside.
Hearing is one of your important senses to maintain situational awareness.

Yeah, wearing those things at home is one thing, but wearing them out in public seems like a recipe for disaster. It's intentionally blocking out your awareness and societal cues.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Yeah, wearing those things at home is one thing, but wearing them out in public seems like a recipe for disaster. It's intentionally blocking out your awareness and societal cues.

Or at least put your headphones around your neck when walking in the street or around traffic etc.

People don't realise you can put them back on once you are somewhere safer or indoors. THEY MUST HAVE THEIR TUNES OR WHATEVER

 

[Owain Taggart]

Tunes or BUST!!! But yeah I see people wearing them while crossing the street all too often. I just have to shake my head. And usually, crosswalks will sound tones as part of the process of lights changing, something that obviously someone wearing headphones would not hear. There's also a different type of lights that were tested in our community, and those use a strobe effect, mostly for hearing impaired.

 

[Akiraprise]

Situation-ally unaware folks not withstanding, I have been keeping an eye on some SSDs and external drives in my Amazon cart and the price is all over the place. Pretty annoying. The Kingston 480GB A400 SATA 3 2.5" Internal SSD I bought 3 years ago for $47 is now $100.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

I'm still using the build from 2021 and it hasn't changed much since then, only change was new power supply and ram before the ram crisis.

ryzen 5600g
64gig ddr4
RX 6600 8gig

Still runs fine and yeah only change was a new power supply

 

[bdub76]

If you're not maintaining proper SA (Situational Awareness), life might come get you in unexpected ways.

23 y/o wearing Stereo Earbuds couldn't hear Helicopter falling from the sky, ultimately killing him.


You don't know what might happen when you're out in the world, maintaining SA is paramount to survival, even the weirdest things like Helicopter falling out of the sky might get you.
That's one reason why I don't like wearing ANC (Automatic Noise Cancelling) EarBuds when outside.
Hearing is one of your important senses to maintain situational awareness.

This is an ad for how well they cancel noise.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

This is an ad for how well they cancel noise.

Also why you shouldn't use them outside in a public space.

 

[Santaman]

Situation-ally unaware folks not withstanding, I have been keeping an eye on some SSDs and external drives in my Amazon cart and the price is all over the place. Pretty annoying. The Kingston 480GB A400 SATA 3 2.5" Internal SSD I bought 3 years ago for $47 is now $100.

Yeah, even M2 SATA SSD's have become idiotically expensive and these are the most barebones-there's-nothing-on-them kind of drive there are at the moment..

 

[Marc]

Yeah, even M2 SATA SSD's have become idiotically expensive and these are the most barebones-there's-nothing-on-them kind of drive there are at the moment..

but I think like DDR4 there's probably a production ending sort of thing if was ever that big to start with

SATA in M.2 format has never been that big, probably almost being still born having been quickly surplanted by NVMe which offered much better performance in the same package.

Also boards with M.2 sata would be outside there range supported by Windows so most have probably gone for recycle.

if wasn't the idiocracy of the ai bubble, we would have also seen the prices for NVMe drives continue to fall below that of 2.5" SATA solid state drives as that's where the demand is.

 

[Santaman]

A LOT of mini PC's have SATA 2's even Dell 3060 mini's use them, it's an advantage to have something in the NVME format but driven by the SATA bus, yes, they're not as fast as a normal NVME but they're cheap, well, they used to be..
Windows 11 supports m2 SATA since it is literally a normal SATA 3 drive just without the 2.5" casing plugged into a NVME like slot, the protocol is the same.

Flash chips can be soldered onto any of the formats so the shortage affects all kinds of SSD's which is a bummer!

 

[Haggis and tatties]

I'm still using the build from 2021 and it hasn't changed much since then, only change was new power supply and ram before the ram crisis.

ryzen 5600g
64gig ddr4
RX 6600 8gig

Still runs fine and yeah only change was a new power supply

That is a modern monster compared to my 11 year old Haswell i7 4770. 16 gig and RTX 3050, as i like to keep my PC stuff under 150 watts while at full tilt....but if it were to go belly up within the next year i would just grab a something that would take ddr 3/4 and go from there and continue to dodge this whole ramageddon thing.

But having a steam back cat going back 20 plus years means i can easily stay on such older hardware, so i have no excuse now to NOT actually start playing my steam account, but if only i could stop playing Star Trek online first. ha

 

[Marc]

A LOT of mini PC's have SATA 2's even Dell 3060 mini's use them, it's an advantage to have something in the NVME format but driven by the SATA bus, yes, they're not as fast as a normal NVME but they're cheap, well, they used to be..
Windows 11 supports m2 SATA since it is literally a normal SATA 3 drive just without the 2.5" casing plugged into a NVME like slot, the protocol is the same.

Flash chips can be soldered onto any of the formats so the shortage affects all kinds of SSD's which is a bummer!

It's not whether Windows Supports m2 SATA, is machines using m2 sata are largely no longer meet the requirements to run Windows (and yes know there ways to get around it but they aren't guarenteeded to work for even and beyond the ken of most users).

The Dell 3060s use 8th Gen Intel Core which makes them the bare minimum to run Windows as per MS requirements.

not just SSDs

rumours have been doing the rounds that nVIDIA is going to nix some of it's mid range cards to free up memory for more profitable ones (yes I know it'd different memory types from the SSDs).

It's also pushing back the release of new Steam Deck from Valve.

 

[Marc]

I'm still using the build from 2021 and it hasn't changed much since then, only change was new power supply and ram before the ram crisis.

ryzen 5600g
64gig ddr4
RX 6600 8gig

Still runs fine and yeah only change was a new power supply

And that's relevant to the discussion how?

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

And that's relevant to the discussion how?

Using hardware bought before the crisis and feeling no urgency to upgrade anything,even if I could afford ram prices.