#4 GB of RAM can't do shit these days

[sorta-silvensei]

HEADS UP that I'll be reblogging Outer Wilds stuff soon maybe, so PSA to blacklist "#outer wilds spoilers" if you haven't played it! Also blacklist "#eote spoilers" if you know base game but not DLC

"Thanks I guess, Silven, but I don't really care about spoilers." Like, I get you, me neither normally, but Outer Wilds is different. And I know everyone says their fandom is different, and Outer Wilds fans love to say "it's amazing but I won't tell you why, dude just play it," but there's a real reason:

It is a completely open game. That means you could start up the game for the first time and beat it in like half an hour. In fact the game gives you an achievement if you do that. But you won't. There's nothing physically stopping you, but you don't know what to do. The only progress is what you the player learns, so it can only really be played once. And it's a phenomenal one time! It should just be up to you if you want that by playing it yourself or watching a playthrough, and not me throwing spoilers at ya.

It's not for everyone unfortunately; I couldn't get through it until I was on antidepressants because it made my stress spike too bad. If the void of space (like the movie Gravity), open water (Subnautica), underground cave systems (Magnus Archives: Lost John's Cave), and/or big cosmic concepts about life and whatnot particularly stress you out, watch a good playthrough instead or as a sample! I recommend About Oliver's run on YouTube if you don't already have a Go-To Gamer. I've also heard Hollow_tones and Pat Stares At have playthroughs but I haven't gotten to those yet.

[fishmech]

The thing is if you can't afford a new computer with at least 8 gb of RAM, then you can't afford a new computer. You're just going to have to wait, or preferably buy a used computer with that in there already.

Your goal when buying a laptop for yourself or someone else is that it should last 4 or 5 years if it doesn't get broken from physical damage. This is about the usual timeframe people keep such devices these days, and you're not going to manage that if you buy something so crippled from the get-go that it's already not very usable now. So that's why you look for at least 8gb of ram, a processor not older than 2020, 1920x1080 screen minimum. These are things that are still gonna let you do stuff that isn't gaming or high res video editing in like 2029.

and ideally you get a laptop thats either uses USB-c for its default charger or allows you to charge it in at least some capacity with a high power USB-c charger.

Because then if/when your main charger breaks you can always be assured that you can get a generic USB-C charger with Power Delivery and a high enough output (many do 65 or 90 or 100 watts now, more than enough to use and charge most laptops that offer USB-c charging) and you don't have to worry about finding your manufacturer's proprietary adapter or fiddling with those "universal charger" packs and finding the right tips and voltage setting. You can just buy a $40 USB-c pd charger and it'll also charge up your other modern shit like a phone or tablet or most wireless earbuds and ereaders and all that. Thank you European Union directives on standardized power designs which products in every country are moving to now.

[ariakjanawen]

We can spend all day everyday having a great time with memes, that's not a problem at all, but it's so God damn tiring seeing blatant misinformation being passed off as 'haha funny jab at this thing I don't like'. You aren't making a point if what you're saying isn't true.

The post I just came across was trying to make fun of Windows for the fact that Windows can't run off of 4 GB of RAM but Linux has no problem doing so. This would not be a problem as a meme if it were true, but it is not. Very much like running Windows on a computer, running Linux is incredibly dependent on enumerating factors such as the performance of the device, what distro you are using, what kind of ram your 4 GB of RAM is (DDR3 single channel vs ddr4 dual Channel is a HUGE difference), among dozens of other things. I have seen machines with relatively modern (1 or 2 gens old) processors and 16GB of RAM absolutely shit the bed trying to run Linux, but then devices with tiny little weak arm processors and 4 gigabytes of ram run Linux perfectly fine, no issues. Hell, some of the Chromebooks that have the Linux feature act as if it's a normal everyday thing, and some other Chromebooks with the Linux feature that are theoretically more powerful can barely launch a simple Linux app.

If you're going to make a meme being catty and making fun of something you don't like, it needs to be for a reason that is actually real instead of just blatantly lying. For example, if I made a meme that makes fun of Apple for claiming to care about their user experience or claiming to care about the environment but then going and making all of the dumbass device design and packaging decisions that they have recently, that would be a realistic way and an accurate way to make a meme with that kind of intention. If i, however, decided to make a meme about how iPhones are so stupid they can't even sideload apps, that would in fact be misinformation. You can sideload apps onto an iphone. It is an incredibly frustrating process and is made as difficult as it possibly could be by Apple, and even then you are only able to install like six or so apps, but you can still do it.

Even when you are just trying to be funny with a meme it is important to uphold some form of journalistic integrity for yourself given that large media corporations and AI content farms seem determined to reduce the quality of information on the internet to an overcooked congee. As the quality of information on the internet reduces, it becomes more and more likely that something you post that is inaccurate as a joke could be something people actually end up believing. The internet is public after all. You are not posting in a vacuum, you are posting somewhere that anyone could end up seeing what you are saying. Essentially, just fact check your posts and make sure that the memes and content that you are making are not spreading falsified information in an already difficult to navigate landscape of modern information on the internet.