lemmy.world down...

Fediverse is great, I can post stuff here now as it's down. xD

Edit: damn, they're already back up this quick

Here was the archive: https://archive.ph/RAZ5Q

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They'll probably have to claim to be working on AI to get someone to sell them new ram.
- more like download more ram
  
  Back in my day you could get an app that doubled your RAM. No memory modules required.
  
  You could mount a cloud storage device as a pagefile, which would be a convoluted way to "download more RAM"!
  Yes, there are some significant technical hurdles to jump through and it'd be impossibly slow, but it can be done!
Faulty memory modules are rare. At least in my life.
- I had BOTH of my memory modules die simultaneously in my first beefy computer I built. I was very lucky that OCZ had a lifetime warranty—they didn’t even ask for the memtest results, they just sent me two new sticks.
  Then both of my (SLI) video cards died… those too were in warranty, but I began to wonder if my computer was cursed.
  
  Bad psu checks out
- more common when dealing with servers. they just have to work harder
  
  It's still not that common to have one die. Servers have ECC memory which can get you by longer even as a DIMM starts to die. It's also rarely run at speeds consumer RAM is run at.
  The thing with server memory is when you get to point where you have hundreds of servers and each one has 12 to 24 DIMMs the chance you have a bad one somewhere increases.
- Worst time for faulty memory. Hope someone had a stick lying around so they don't have to pay outrageuous prices.
- Never had one fail. Bought a faulty one once. Took me months to figure out why I was having data corruption issues. Thought it was one of the old HDDs I was using in a ZRAID array, so I would swap one out and try again until I'd eventually get a corruption error again. Finally found the issue after about 10 minutes of running a memory test of a bootable USB.
  
  Am I the only one using memtest after every time I handle RAM?
- At least anecdotally I find them to be the third most common thing to fail after storage drives and fans. Though yeah still super rare.
  
  Power supplies and batteries, if we’re including laptops.
- happened to my laptop q couple of years ago and my stationary just this summer :|
oh no. what are all the pro-genocide astroturf bots gonna do now?!
- coming to other lemmy instances. they tried it the "You sound like a 1939s nazi"(paraphrase) when referring to russian backed propaganda as a reason for a certain candidates loss" just the other day, instantly blocked that account.
.world has on-"prem" servers? Noice
- So does .CA
  It's one of the advantages of the being a lot of sys admins and Linux users in this community.
  You can run Lemmy pretty comfortably on used servers.
  
  I'm running mine on a ~$33/year VPS at GreenCloudVPS. It's a small instance (just me) but it federates with all the major instances which means it still does a bunch of work (since it has to handle incoming posts and comments from federated servers). It's a decently powerful VPS with an AMD EPYC Milan CPU, 10GB RAM, and 100GB NVMe storage.
  For a medium-sized instance, I imagine you could get pretty far with a single <$100/month dedicated server from Hetzner or a similar provider.
- Maybe it changed, but IIRC they are using Hetzner
  I run lemmy.world on a VPS at Hetzner.
  https://lemmy.world/comment/65982
  Their infrastructure expenses seem to also suggest VPS
  https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld/transactions?kind=EXPENSE
  
  I am under the impression it's dedicated hardware not a VPS, but it's leased from Hetzner they don't maintain the hardware themselves.
I switched from lemmy.world to fedia.io because I like mbin's interface a little better than lemmy: The fediverse is pretty great!
- If you want to try alternate UIs, you might be interested in trying Photon and Alexandrite.
  
  I've tried a few variants out and they all have their own benefits and drawbacks, but I kinda settled on Mbin with Interstellar on mobile (though the website works fine in Firefox mobile too).
Oh shit, awful timing, what with the pricing recently :(
- When it rains, it pours
You are now banned from Lemmy.world

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