• Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzbot accountEnglish
    16 days

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    AP WiFi Access Point
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
    ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity

    4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.

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  • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17 days

    I was looking into upgrading storage and ended up opting to buy 20TB in HDDs for my NAS.

    I have to shuffle Steam games around but at 10Gb, it goes pretty fast (and you can run most games directly off the NAS) and the array can survive if a drive fails (ZFS).

    You need the extra hardware to run the NAS but HDDs are a significantly cheaper option and you don’t need SSD speeds for most things.

  • Caesium@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18 days

    yeah I wanted to get more space but I ultimately chose to just upgrade from 16 to 32 GB ram finally. I have a decent amount of storage already, I’m just a blooming data hoarder so I’ve had to fanagle files around

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    18 days

    I wouldn’t push either button in 2026 or 2027 if you can wait.

  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18 days

    Windows was eating a lot of ram even on idle, so if was planning to upgrade my ram from 16 to 32 gb, then I checked the prices and made the tactical decision to install Linux instead

    • mewtiful@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      18 days

      It’s also quite nice that Linux/etc let you choose what kinds of things you want it to do in low memory situations. I.e. I was getting some OOM process kills mostly because of a modded minecraft server running, and increasing the zswap max pool percentage to 50, changing the zswap compressor to I think zstd, and enlargening my physical swap partition eliminated them.

    • criticon@lemmy.caEnglish
      18 days

      Seriously my 7 year old i3 w 12gb of RAM laptop running mint feels more smooth than my new work laptop with 64gb of RAM running windows 11 (and a bunch of corporate clutter)

      • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17 days

        64 gigs on a windows work laptop what a waste, if not Linux if they at least went with a MacBook that would have been such a better use of it

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18 days

      Kinda same. I couldn’t get to 11 because of the lack of a TPM. Upgrading is expensive. Linux is not.

      • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17 days

        Nice, Microsoft has become another tech cancer of a company, it’s good you didn’t upgrade to 11

        • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          17 days

          Microsoft has been a shit sandwich of a company for a long time now. They were fully into the “extend, embrace, extinguish” method since their inception.

  • Eternal192@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    18 days

    That’s not really a contest because i can’t afford either of those at their current prices.

  • DigDoug@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18 days

    The correct answer is “have bought them both 2 years ago”.

  • cRazi_man@europe.pubEnglish
    18 days

    I feel bad for anyone building now. I built my gaming setup + NAS and server PC and upgraded my Steam Deck in the past 2 to 3 years. Going to get as much milage out of these as I can till things settle down. I’ve changed all my Docker services to lower resource alternatives to keep things running on my existing ram.

    Then in 5 years when things have only gotten worse and this is the new norm then I’ll cry alongside everyone else. Or maybe China will get their fabs up and running and swoop in to undercut these bastards to save us all.

  • Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18 days

    Buy decent memory, and a cheaper SSD. Since the MoBo is backwards compatible you should be able to get a PCI-E 4.0 SSD that won’t cost as much as a 5.0, and when (if) prices finally come down you can upgrade to a better one. Since a DDR4 MoBo isn’t compatible with DDR5 RAM, you’re stuck with DDR4 until you upgrade the MoBo again.

  • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
    18 days

    he’s sweating cuz he knows if he pushes either one he’s gonna be eatin’ plain ramen for a month and short on rent