Off-and-on trying out an account over at @[email protected] due to scraping bots bogging down lemmy.today to the point of near-unusability.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II
The original retail price of the computer was US$1,298 (equivalent to $6,700 in 2024)[18][19] with 4 KB of RAM and US$2,638 (equivalent to $13,700 in 2024) with the maximum 48 KB of RAM.
Few people actually need a full 48KB of RAM, but if you have an extra $6k lying around, it can be awfully nice.
TECO’s kinda-sorta emacs’s parent in sorta the same way that ed kinda-sorta is vi’s parent.
I compiled and tried out a Linux port the other day due to a discussion on editors we were having on the Threadiverse, so was ready to mind. Similar interface to ed, also designed to run on teletypes.
It’s a compressed RAM drive being used as swap backing. The kernel’s already got the functionality to have multiple tiers of priority for storage; this just leverages that. Like, you have uncompressed memory, it gets exhausted and you push some out to compressed memory, that gets exhausted and you push it out to swap on NVMe or something, etc.
Kinda like RAM Doubler of yesteryear, same sort of thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zram
zram, formerly called compcache, is a Linux kernel module for creating a compressed block device in RAM, i.e. a RAM disk with on-the-fly disk compression. The block device created with zram can then be used for swap or as general-purpose RAM disk. The two most common uses for zram are for the storage of temporary files (/tmp) and as a swap device. Initially, zram had only the latter function, hence the original name “compcache” (“compressed cache”). Unlike swap, zram only uses 0.1% of the maximum size of the disk when not in use.[1]
Open-source RAM is better.
Many text editors today just load the whole file into RAM.
been the case for decades
One data point: emacs normally loads the whole file, unless you’re using the vlf package or similar.
TECO and ed might not. Dunno.
Another user in the BlueSky thread showed a photo that appears to be a Best Buy case of RAM, showing a 32GB set of two DDR5 DIMMs going for over $400 USD, a 64GB kit for over $900.
If I hit Google Shopping, which indexes a ton of retailer sites, I can find 2x16GB DDR5 DIMMs for far less than that at various retailers that haven’t jacked up prices yet.
https://www.google.com/shopping?udm=28
My first hit for “2x16gb 32gb ddr5” sorted by price is this:
https://pcpartshawaii.com/products/kingston-fury-ddr5-32gb-2x16gb-5200mhz-cl40-ram
Kingston Fury DDR5 32GB (2x16GB) 5600MHz CL40 RAM KF556C40BBK2-32
$100.00
They say that they have two in stock.
These guys are next lowest:
https://www.barcodediscount.com/catalog/kingston/part-kcp548us8k2-32.htm
Price: $103.06
I don’t know, haven’t used it. I’d imagine that if a service somewhere blocks VPNs, that it is liable to also block someone who is providing free IPv6 tunnels, as from their standpoint, it’d have a similar effect.
If you can’t get it working, there are (or have been) a few free IPv6 tunnel brokers out there (and I’m sure commercial ones).
It looks like Hurricane Electric, which I remember being around, still provides free IPv6 tunnels.
Getting it working natively will be preferable, less latency, but if you’re wanting to try out IPv6, that’d also be an option.
have a gtx 6700 gpu which should be plenty overkill for cs2. But ive heard cs2 is processor heavy.
I don’t know which game you’re playing, not sure what CS2 is, as some other folks mention. However, if you install mangohud and run it via mangohud <gamename> — if this is Steam, in the game’s Launch Options, that’ll be “mangohud %command%” — it’ll show you CPU and GPU load in an overlay on top of your game.
EDIT: Example:
EDIT2: Note that by default, it shows “composite CPU load”, same as top does by default. So, say you have a 32-core CPU and a game uses only a single thread, then it’ll only show it running at 3%, even if the game is bottlenecked on the single core that it’s using. MANGOHUD_CONFIG=full mangohud <gamename> will show all CPU cores independently (along with some other data). E.g.:
It sounds like you’re using Counter-Strike 2 from other comments, and that CS2 only really uses 1-2 cores:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/730/discussions/0/594026537713459453/
CS2 still heavily loads only 1–2 CPU threads, even on modern CPUs with multiple high-performance cores. Other cores remain mostly idle while one thread runs at 100%.
I mean, they did make a lot of money, but they also had an extremely high valuation.
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NVDA/nvidia/pe-ratio
NVIDIA PE ratio as of November 20, 2025 is 48.45.
Something like 20 is typical for a mature company. Tech companies have, in the past, often had higher ratios, but that’s based on their expectation to grow a lot rapidly, and expecting NVidia to dramatically grow from their current — already very high — valuation is asking a lot.
If NVidia were a small tech company that was doing well and clearly had a lot of market to expand into rapidly, that would be one thing.
I think that in general, the market has been pretty good to NVidia. Their share price is up 31.22% since the start of the year. 1,247% over the past five years.
GOG was concerned that I might be developing feelings for Steam and needed to check on the state of our relationship.
There’s Mono. I don’t know what portion of .NET compatibility issues that addresses in 2025.
Meta’s chief AI scientist and Turing Award winner Yann LeCun plans to leave the company to launch his own startup focused on a different type of AI called “world models,” the Financial Times reported.
World models are hypothetical AI systems that some AI engineers expect to develop an internal “understanding” of the physical world by learning from video and spatial data rather than text alone.
Sounds reasonable.
That being said, I am willing to believe that an LLM could be part of an AGI. It might well be an efficient way to incorporate a lot of knowledge about the world. Wikipedia helps provide me with a lot of knowledge, for example, though I don’t have a direct brain link to it. It’s just that I don’t expect an AGI to be an LLM.
EDIT: Also, IIRC from past reading, Meta has separate groups aimed at near-term commercial products (and I can very much believe that there might be plenty of room for LLMs here) and aimed advanced AI. It’s not clear to me from the article whether he just wants more focus on advanced AI or whether he disagrees with an LLM focus in their afvanced AI group.
I do think that if you’re a company building a lot of parallel compute capacity now, that to make a return on that, you need to take advantage of existing or quite near-future stuff, even if it’s not AGI. Doesn’t make sense to build a lot of compute capacity, then spend fifteen years banging on research before you have something to utilize that capacity.
https://datacentremagazine.com/news/why-is-meta-investing-600bn-in-ai-data-centres
Meta reveals US$600bn plan to build AI data centres, expand energy projects and fund local programmes through 2028
So Meta probably cannot only be doing AGI work.
There’s also istheservicedown.com, but it also appears to rely on CloudFlare.
There’s isitdownrightnow.com, which appears not to use CloudFlare.
Took down Framework’s website, which I was using.
Just keep in mind that the long run trend for storage prices is pretty strongly downwards; that’s a log-scale graph.
The cases of old ones are on eBay, as I mention in another comment.
And it looks like someone has made ATX mounting kits.
https://thelaserhive.com/product/mac-pro-atx-kit-with-psu-mount/
Thanks for the added insights! I haven’t used it myself, so appreciated.
Linux has a second, similar “compressed memory” feature called zswap. This guy has used both, and thinks that if someone is using a system with NVMe, that zswap is preferable.
https://linuxblog.io/zswap-better-than-zram/
Based on his take, zram is probably a better choice for that rotational-disk Celeron, but if you’re running Cities: Skylines on newer hardware, I’m wondering if zswap might be more advantageous.