I got 32 additional GB of ram at a low, low cost from someone. What can I actually do with it?

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          1 year ago

          In my case, it’s less about being able to open more Firefox tabs and more about Firefox being able to go longer between crashes due to a memory leak. (I know, I know… Firefox doesn’t have memory leaks anymore. It’s probably due to an extension or some bad JavaScript in one of my perpetually-open sites or something. One of these days I’ll get around to troubleshooting it…)

  • vividspecter@lemm.ee
    25·
    1 year ago

    • Compressed swap (zram)

    • Compiling large C++ programs with many threads

    • Virtual machines

    • Video encoding

    • Many Firefox tabs

    • Games

  • zkfcfbzr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    I have 16 GB of RAM and recently tried running local LLM models. Turns out my RAM is a bigger limiting factor than my GPU.

    And, yeah, docker’s always taking up 3-4 GB.

  • Jesus_666@lemmy.world
    181·
    1 year ago

    Run a fairly large LLM on your CPU so you can get the finest of questionable problem solving at a speed fast enough to be workable but slow enough to be highly annoying.

    This has the added benefit of filling dozens of gigabytes of storage that you probably didn’t know what to do with anyway.

  • spicy pancake@lemmy.zipEnglish
    161·
    1 year ago

    Fold At Home!

    https://foldingathome.org/

    You can essentially donate your processing power to various science projects that need it to compute protein folding simulations. I used to run it whenever I wasn’t actively using my PC. This does cost electricity and increase rate of wear and tear on the device, as with any sustained high computational load. But it’s cool! :]

  • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    If you are on Linux and I guess windows but nor sure. You already use it for cache. So you can never have enough ram. As long as it’s the same speed of your existing ram or you will screw yourself in preformence.

    • daggermoon@lemmy.worldOP
      64·
      1 year ago

      I actually did. I deleted it as soon as I realized it wouldn’t tell me about the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        Oh, c’mon, I’m sure it told you all about how there’s nothing to tell. Insisted on that, most likely.

        • daggermoon@lemmy.worldOP
          3·
          1 year ago

          Nah it said something along the lines of “I cannot answer that, I was created to be helpful and harmless”

          • Dasus@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 year ago

            Answer that with “your answer implies that you know the answer and can give it but are refusing to because you’re being censored by the perpetrators” or some such.

            I made Gemini admit it lied to me and thus Google lied to me. I haven’t tried Deepseek.

      • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
        41·
        1 year ago

        But the local version is not supposed to be censored…? I’ve asked it questions about human rights in China and got a fully detailed answer, very critical of the government, something that I could not get on the web version. Are you sure you were running it locally?

        • kevincox@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 year ago

          IIUC it isn’t censored per se. Not like the web service that will retract a “bad” response. But the training data is heavily biased. And there may be some explicit training towards refusing answers to those questions.

        • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
          1·
          1 year ago

          Nah, it’s just fewer parameters. It’s not as “smart” at censorship or has less overhead to apply to censorship. This came up on Ed Zitron’s podcast, Better Offline.

  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    111·
    1 year ago

    700 Chrome tabs, a very bloated IDE, an Android emulator, a VM, another Android emulator, a bunch of node.js processes (and their accompanying chrome processes)