If I were in this position I'd strongly consider using 16GB for the next year or two. Especially with an NVME SSD, good swap performance makes the impact of running out of memory much smaller than it used to be.
It's very strange both sticks failed at the same time, have you tried them in another motherboard?
This is almost certainly US Mobile. They have some really interesting plans at surprisingly reasonable prices. But ultimately if you just want the cheapest cell service then they're not the carrier for you.
All web browsers are nearly unusable with 4gb of RAM lately. Even with desktop Linux I usually have nearly my full 8gb used. With 8gb AND Windows it's only a matter of time before these computers become unusable...
Company computers often come with pre-installed spyware which is notoriously RAM hungry. My company laptop immediately after boot uses nearly a full 16gb before you open any programs. Luckily our IT department realizes this and only allows us to purchase machines with 32GB and up. They're probably not happy with the current prices, but being a F500 company they can afford it...
There's huge investment in domestic semiconductor manufacturing in China, but they're certainly not ahead of the West yet. Or even on par. If they were we'd see them exporting semiconductors and not buying from foreign companies, yet they still do. I work as an electrical engineer in the semiconductor industry and also visit China for work. We all know that our jobs are doomed in 5-10yr, but for now their domestic semiconductor industry simply isn't able to compete.
I mean that planning a presidential campaign takes years, years which they didn't have. And beyond the time required to plan and refine the campaign messaging, the candidate needs time to train how to answer questions following it. They had no choice but to reuse all of Biden's preparation for these, and even then it still looked hastily done.
The "Harris" campaign was a continuation of Biden's ongoing campaign under a new candidate. They never had a chance to set their own messaging nor policy priorities. And although I too doubt it would have ultimately stopped Trump, it certainly would have allowed them to try to target younger demographics with their policy.
I also fear that the Democratic party's takeaway from the whole ordeal may be that America is not yet ready for a woman president. But any candidate would have lost under Harris's circumstances. And Hillary was just a terrible candidate. Yet because those are the only two woman candidates we've had for President and both lost horribly, it's easy to draw the wrong conclusion here that those are related.
Throughout Biden's whole term it was a big question if he'd run again. It being a question at all should have made the answer a clear NO. Harris never had a fair chance at a campaign because of this despite being in my opinion one of the better Democrat candidates we've had in recent history. Obviously she's not as liberal as most Democrats would like nowadays, but when the alternative is an openly corrupt billionaire con artist I'll vote for the mainstream Democrat candidate every time.
This isn't letting you control when the "shifting" happens. It's just cutting the power for a small period at preset speeds like an automatic transmission ICE.
The unfortunate part for DIY PC is that the RAM is likely all buffered ECC. And used flash is sketchy in my experience, even if you buy SLC where the whole point is supposed to be that it is more durable.
Not to mention Kansas city and Memphis which would also be a part of this state. It would probably be more urban than average considering it would encompass both of these major cities.
I'd argue it already is an actual alternative so long as you're following more general technical content rather than niche local stuff. Most of us the people here have Reddit's API shutdown for third party apps to thank including myself. At least for me the last time I tried using the first party app it had major issues playing gifs on my Galaxy A52. Combine the bugs with the general closing of the platform and it was quite an easy switch. Lemmy is certainly smaller, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing. I waste less time on it than I used to on Reddit which feels more healthy.
I fully agree it's worth waiting for the thrill of the deal.
The Chia crash was great. A local dude I found on Facebook marketplace bought a whole array worth of drives and never got around to even opening the packages for them.
I scored a great local deal on a PC last week, but unfortunately the only weak point of it is the 16GB of DDR5. So I guess for a while I'll just be chilling with equal amounts of GPU and system memory. Luckily I'm not a gamer and rarely limited by the system memory.
I think a bubble pop may be closer than people think. Several F500 company CEOs are at least calling it a bubble now, but admittedly still 100% on board the AI hype train.
Seriously, this platform is far from dead. Lemmy is not quite the same depth of niche content as Reddit was, but it's certainly usable. If you can recognize Reddit's practices are a problem then with a bit of effort there is another option.
As someone who picks a window seat specifically for the view I agree the airline websites need to make this clearer but it's super common to allow for air ducts in the plane. If you check the seat map on Aerolopa this is easily avoided (except when there's an aircraft swap). Avoid SeatGuru, it's often very outdated and even when correct for seats the window positions are incorrect.
I doubt they could get away with banning plex due to its integrated ad-supported streaming service which there are likely a few users of. But for jellyfin that same argument wouldn't work. At least initially I suspect no self-hosted content would be blocked, as there are plenty of apps/viruses out there openly created solely for the purpose of piracy. Jellyfin isn't the same as these as it doesn't include links to any servers nor methods to download pirated content, even on the server side. Also it's nowhere near as widely used as other services so it may just slip under the radar.
Not the case for me, I'll typically spend a solid week or two tweaking things after I initially set it up to get all the hardware working perfectly, then never touch the configuration again even as things slowly start breaking with updates.
Banks have made it really difficult to rent safety deposit boxes lately. It used to be a common account benefit but I can't find any within a reasonable distance of me since 2023, and none which are included as an account benefit. A fireproof safe is good enough and the types of documents I put in it aren't truly irreplaceable anyways, just really hard/annoying to replace. I doubt many people use their fireproof safe for truly valuable items that would be attractive to thieves. My fireproof safe doesn't even have a proper lock.
If I were in this position I'd strongly consider using 16GB for the next year or two. Especially with an NVME SSD, good swap performance makes the impact of running out of memory much smaller than it used to be.
It's very strange both sticks failed at the same time, have you tried them in another motherboard?