Richie’s Computer Stuff

I make videos on MakerTube! I also post random stuff to social media and never know when to stop talking.

MakerTube: https://makertube.net/a/richie_g/video-channels

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/richiegolds.bsky.social

Mastodon: https://cyberplace.social/@richiegolds

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Joined 3 months ago
Cake day: September 21st, 2025
  • Richie’s Computer Stuff@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Had enough of having to change it every 3 months
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    13 days ago

    One way to deal with this I’ve been doing for a little while is to use a service that enables me to use email aliases. It’s mostly meant to avoid email address leaks, but will also make it harder for online services and companies to track you, since it’s a big point of tracking. You can also use it to figure out who sold your email address. Not a perfect solution, but it’s something. I’ve been using Proton. Whether or not you trust them is up to you, but they do offer this ability (I just can’t remember if it’s free or paid).

  • Richie’s Computer Stuff@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Getting too expensive
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    21 days ago

    Reminds me of my big upgrade a little while back. I wanted a Ryzen 7 7800X3D, which of course meant a new motherboard and RAM too. I was coming from 64GB of DDR4, and while most of the time I didn’t need it, there were times where I did need it, or it was great to have.

    I didn’t want to spend the extra money on 64GB of DDR5 memory at the time, and settled with 32GB thinking “it’s fine, I don’t need more than that most of the time anyways, and I can always upgrade later if I need to”. I got 2x16GB, leaving room for two more later on (and allowing myself to graduate from dual channel to that tasty quad channel).

    Well, fast forward to now, and… it’s not hard to get close to that ceiling. Between video/audio work, BeamNG.Drive being an absolute pig on memory (the Linux kernel is like “absolutely f****** not”, and boots it out of memory to prevent an OOM situation), and running AI models locally just for funsies, I’ve been thinking about an upgrade.

    lol imagine my face when I see how “64GB prices” are now “32GB prices”. And all of a sudden… I don’t really need it anymore.