dr_st wrote on 2025-11-08, 13:20:

darry wrote on 2025-11-08, 12:27:

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For as far as I've been following, RAM prices have been following a bowl curve like in the screenshot. Quite expensive when first introduced at the cutting edge, dropping while its mainstream, and rising again when manufacturing moves to the next technology, and production for the older technology drops.

And as you said, might drop again once it's so old that the old supplies (RAM rarely fails) far exceed the demand.

Indeed, that is what I recall as well, though it seems to me like this bowl curve is deeper, more abrupt and especially a bit early on the price rise side considering the number of DDR4 processors and boards still on the market and presumably still being manufactured. Maybe my memory is off on some or all of those points.

Released a fifth part of my Building an Enterprise Data Access Layer series: Composable Multi-Tenancy Filtering.

It's getting to an end slowly. I have just 2 more articles in this series to publish. After that the main goals have been achieved.
I do plan to do a few "extra" articles on top addressing some alternatives and other ideas that were not part of initial series goals.

EDIT:

And with the release of .NET 10, I've made my changes to the ULID library.
I was an early adopter of C# 14 in my project already. (LangVersion = preview)
Read more here: Announcing ByteAether.Ulid 1.3.2: .NET 10 Support and Optimized Design

Just noticed that Microsoft forcibly shoved Copilot into the Game Bar. 🤦

The Windows enshittification truly knows no bounds. Had to search how to remove that trash. On the plus side, I'm getting more and more inclined to try out gaming on Linux.

Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2025-11-25, 16:01:

Just noticed that Microsoft forcibly shoved Copilot into the Game Bar. 🤦

The Windows enshittification truly knows no bounds. Had to search how to remove that trash. On the plus side, I'm getting more and more inclined to try out gaming on Linux.

Last month I’ve finally decided to ditch Windows, not even dual booting that garbage anymore, just Linux on my main PC.
IMHO there is no point in using software that is designed to exploit me as much as possible. We all know it’s going to get intentionally worse over time so whats the point in holding to it anyway?

I went to check something on my Linux install today, then thought to put it to sleep when I had to go out. When I came back, the screen didn't wake. I seem to faintly remember this being broken on my computer ever since I messed with Linux in 2012 or so. I think I'll stop using computers when wheels fall off Windows 10.

Also, font rendering in web browsers in Linux is killing my eyes...

UCyborg wrote on 2025-11-26, 22:19:

I went to check something on my Linux install today, then thought to put it to sleep when I had to go out. When I came back, the screen didn't wake. I seem to faintly remember this being broken on my computer ever since I messed with Linux in 2012 or so. I think I'll stop using computers when wheels fall off Windows 10.

Also, font rendering in web browsers in Linux is killing my eyes...

Not gonna lie, there are a lot of tradeoffs in using Linux, personally I had the same issue as you did with the sleep mode (I believe it has to do with video drivers, are you using an Nvidia card like me?), so I simply disabled it. But even with all that, for me it got to a point where I’d rather struggle with Linux many quirks over fighting Microsoft constantly trying to sabotage my PC.
Next time I build a new computer, I’ll try making sure to use hardware that works on Linux (mostly AMD stuff), maybe that will help with the incompatibilities.
Thats the heart of enshittification: Make your product just bad and abusive enough so most users still remain using it out of necessity even though they hate your product.

Yeah, ATI / AMD was horrible back then on Linux. Though I think I switched to NVIDIA to get rid of issues related to OpenGL. Ever since, things just work, at least on Windows. But I don't play much anyway anymore so there's hardly any reason for me to consider new PC.

Still, Linux way of doing things is just alien to me, too many things bother me, big or small. And I've been watching it for over a decade now. Life would be easier if MS didn't lose it after Win7.

Last Saturday I upgraded my NAS with 3×8TB hard drives (1 WD RED, 2 WD Purple). I also want to set up a self hosted cloud storage. NextCloud didn't work out so far, I'll give it another go this weekend. Or maybe try OwnCloud.

Also set up one of my T630s to be my movie box instead of the T520 I've been using up until now. I never really liked Kodi (LibreElec) so I went with BlissOS+Flauncher. Mostly works fine handles the remote controller very well, but the Jellyfin TV client has issues playing most media. Either BlissOS handles codecs in a way Jellyfin TV doesn't like or the client itself has issues. I read the TV client for Jellyfin is more problematic than others. I have no issues with the PC and phone clients. This will be my #1 issue to solve this weekend. I have a couple of ideas to test on BlissOS and maybe try vanilla Android x86, though that stopped at Android 9. BlissOS 16 is based on Android 13.

I finally figured out how to restart Android now that the useless morons at Google hijacked the power hotkey to open Gemini instead. You press the hold and volume up buttons at the same time. There is a setting to revert to the standard power behavior, but I already changed that back when holding down the lock button opened Google Assistant. Apparently there were some Microsoft developers that moved to Google.

I'm not in good health (I suffered through work yesterday just because it was one person's last day and another was going on leave) and completely disillusioned with the modern world. Happy Thanksgiving.

lti wrote on 2025-11-28, 05:11:

completely disillusioned with the modern world

i can sympathise. i think its more common as you get older - both oneself and the world didnt turn out the way we expected (whether we expected things in detail or in vague feelings) and there is less room for optimism when aging, at least the kind of youthful optimism.

On the particular thing of having to make some setting change in some device and run through yet another "settings->credentials->something->more credentials->more settings" loop just to get one simple thing done, i have tried thinking about that.

I was more tolerant of it when younger, i think maybe we "use up" our patience for it. when i encounter it now its not that I'm 'confused' or unable but i just find it all so tiresome and irritating, i's like i think "i've done this 20 times already, i've done it enough, no more!"

i think for the same reasons i have lost interesting in "setting up" windows or linux or android or a tv or anything beyond the bare minimum. in my experience all that setting up doesn't pay back, defaults are ok and bar a couple of security or privacy things its just not worth it. yet i see enthusiasts spending serious time on the exact UI, fonts, hotkeys, UI behaviours and so on

working on making my sleeper OS install of 10 better, I can't seem to get the older windows explore shell to work on 10 properly, cut and paste files deep in the file system is hit or miss.

gerry wrote on 2025-11-28, 10:01:

i can sympathise. i think its more common as you get older - both oneself and the world didnt turn out the way we expected (whe […]
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lti wrote on 2025-11-28, 05:11:

completely disillusioned with the modern world

i can sympathise. i think its more common as you get older - both oneself and the world didnt turn out the way we expected (whether we expected things in detail or in vague feelings) and there is less room for optimism when aging, at least the kind of youthful optimism.

On the particular thing of having to make some setting change in some device and run through yet another "settings->credentials->something->more credentials->more settings" loop just to get one simple thing done, i have tried thinking about that.

I was more tolerant of it when younger, i think maybe we "use up" our patience for it. when i encounter it now its not that I'm 'confused' or unable but i just find it all so tiresome and irritating, i's like i think "i've done this 20 times already, i've done it enough, no more!"

i think for the same reasons i have lost interesting in "setting up" windows or linux or android or a tv or anything beyond the bare minimum. in my experience all that setting up doesn't pay back, defaults are ok and bar a couple of security or privacy things its just not worth it. yet i see enthusiasts spending serious time on the exact UI, fonts, hotkeys, UI behaviours and so on

Microsoft and Google default settings don't work for me, and when I change them, they revert back to defaults. In Microsoft's case, default programs revert to the default at the time of installation instead of the newest bundled program. For example, the default video player in an older Windows 10 installation would randomly revert to Movies and TV instead of the new media player meant to replace it, and the default email client would change to Mail after it was deprecated and replaced with Outlook with ads disguised as unread emails in you inbox.

There's more than that, and I don't know if it's that loss of optimism or patience or just me being permanently pissed off since I was in high school. This is just what I feel like posting on this forum. At least Thanksgiving went well.

My parents are still on 8GB of RAM, and that isn't enough. Unfortunately, everyone here knows about what happened to RAM prices, and I don't expect prices to drop significantly after demand drops. Prices might drop by 5%, and the tech press will portray it as prices dropping to what they were in September. Am I too cynical?

I need to replace the switch on my ceiling fan after only three years.

Most of the Internet is AI slop and sponsored shill "reviews" (even from old review/testing outlets like Consumer Reports, and their whole website is paywalled), and no matter how obvious it is, people act like it's real.

Every website and piece of software has a special option to stop selling your personal data. That includes software running on some expensive products like cars (not that I would buy a new car anyway with touchscreen controls and wet belts). No matter how much money you spend or how much profit the manufacturer is making, you're still the product anyway.

lti wrote on 2025-11-29, 06:25:

Microsoft and Google default settings don't work for me, and when I change them, they revert back to defaults. In Microsoft's ca […]
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gerry wrote on 2025-11-28, 10:01:

i can sympathise. i think its more common as you get older - both oneself and the world didnt turn out the way we expected (whe […]
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lti wrote on 2025-11-28, 05:11:

completely disillusioned with the modern world

i can sympathise. i think its more common as you get older - both oneself and the world didnt turn out the way we expected (whether we expected things in detail or in vague feelings) and there is less room for optimism when aging, at least the kind of youthful optimism.

On the particular thing of having to make some setting change in some device and run through yet another "settings->credentials->something->more credentials->more settings" loop just to get one simple thing done, i have tried thinking about that.

I was more tolerant of it when younger, i think maybe we "use up" our patience for it. when i encounter it now its not that I'm 'confused' or unable but i just find it all so tiresome and irritating, i's like i think "i've done this 20 times already, i've done it enough, no more!"

i think for the same reasons i have lost interesting in "setting up" windows or linux or android or a tv or anything beyond the bare minimum. in my experience all that setting up doesn't pay back, defaults are ok and bar a couple of security or privacy things its just not worth it. yet i see enthusiasts spending serious time on the exact UI, fonts, hotkeys, UI behaviours and so on

Microsoft and Google default settings don't work for me, and when I change them, they revert back to defaults. In Microsoft's case, default programs revert to the default at the time of installation instead of the newest bundled program. For example, the default video player in an older Windows 10 installation would randomly revert to Movies and TV instead of the new media player meant to replace it, and the default email client would change to Mail after it was deprecated and replaced with Outlook with ads disguised as unread emails in you inbox.

There's more than that, and I don't know if it's that loss of optimism or patience or just me being permanently pissed off since I was in high school. This is just what I feel like posting on this forum. At least Thanksgiving went well.

My parents are still on 8GB of RAM, and that isn't enough. Unfortunately, everyone here knows about what happened to RAM prices, and I don't expect prices to drop significantly after demand drops. Prices might drop by 5%, and the tech press will portray it as prices dropping to what they were in September. Am I too cynical?

I need to replace the switch on my ceiling fan after only three years.

Most of the Internet is AI slop and sponsored shill "reviews" (even from old review/testing outlets like Consumer Reports, and their whole website is paywalled), and no matter how obvious it is, people act like it's real.

Every website and piece of software has a special option to stop selling your personal data. That includes software running on some expensive products like cars (not that I would buy a new car anyway with touchscreen controls and wet belts). No matter how much money you spend or how much profit the manufacturer is making, you're still the product anyway.

This isn’t you getting old and grumpy, this is an actual problem with all industries. I really wish I could say something to make you feel better, but I’m almost sure things will get much worse for tech enthusiasts (and pretty much everyone else) 🙁
My personal way for dealing with this is to try seeing technology with more critical eyes rather than just be the guy who adopts everything the industry throws, a more “phylosophical” approach so to speak.
Maybe thats is a good oportunity to change old habits… we must accept that we cannot have everything so if you want to use the bleeding edge stuff, sadly you have to give control away to the big corpos that make it. Trying to fix it by finding tricks or purposely hidden privacy settings in my opinion is just a fool’s errand because at the end of the day they own the stuff and will keep making it more and more intrusive until people just give up.
You can either accept that and continue using it or start using technology that is not “owned” by anyone like open source software.
Of course using open source software has it’s fair share of problems and a learning curve, not to mention you will lose (but also gain) some things. But honestly, IMO this is the best time to learn since mainstream tech is so repulsive to use.
Hope that made you feel better somehow

RandomStranger wrote on 2025-11-27, 14:46:

Last Saturday I upgraded my NAS with 3×8TB hard drives (1 WD RED, 2 WD Purple). I also want to set up a self hosted cloud storage. NextCloud didn't work out so far, I'll give it another go this weekend. Or maybe try OwnCloud.

Also set up one of my T630s to be my movie box instead of the T520 I've been using up until now. I never really liked Kodi (LibreElec) so I went with BlissOS+Flauncher. Mostly works fine handles the remote controller very well, but the Jellyfin TV client has issues playing most media. Either BlissOS handles codecs in a way Jellyfin TV doesn't like or the client itself has issues. I read the TV client for Jellyfin is more problematic than others. I have no issues with the PC and phone clients. This will be my #1 issue to solve this weekend. I have a couple of ideas to test on BlissOS and maybe try vanilla Android x86, though that stopped at Android 9. BlissOS 16 is based on Android 13.

I had to move my multimedia client from BlissOS 16 to Android-x86 9. The devs of BlissOS just did something weird with how it handles the codecs. Stock droid however just works. The setup otherwise the same:
FLauncher
Jellyfin TV
VLC
NewPipe
Amaze

I added TrackerControl and cut network access from every single app including system apps aside of those above.

Now everything works the way I like it... except sleep mode. Whether it goes into sleep mode on its own or me pressing the on/off button on the remote, it's instantly reawakens and networking shits itself. Both wired and wifi.

gaffa2002 wrote on 2025-11-29, 13:38:

This isn’t you getting old and grumpy, this is an actual problem with all industries. I really wish I could say something to mak […]
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This isn’t you getting old and grumpy, this is an actual problem with all industries. I really wish I could say something to make you feel better, but I’m almost sure things will get much worse for tech enthusiasts (and pretty much everyone else) 🙁
My personal way for dealing with this is to try seeing technology with more critical eyes rather than just be the guy who adopts everything the industry throws, a more “phylosophical” approach so to speak.
Maybe thats is a good oportunity to change old habits… we must accept that we cannot have everything so if you want to use the bleeding edge stuff, sadly you have to give control away to the big corpos that make it. Trying to fix it by finding tricks or purposely hidden privacy settings in my opinion is just a fool’s errand because at the end of the day they own the stuff and will keep making it more and more intrusive until people just give up.
You can either accept that and continue using it or start using technology that is not “owned” by anyone like open source software.
Of course using open source software has it’s fair share of problems and a learning curve, not to mention you will lose (but also gain) some things. But honestly, IMO this is the best time to learn since mainstream tech is so repulsive to use.
Hope that made you feel better somehow

I will admit to buying bleeding-edge hardware whenever I decide to upgrade my modern computers, but I go several years between upgrades. My desktop that I bought in January has been on Linux from the start, aside from running Windows 11 for a few hours for troubleshooting (seeing if the high power consumption I was measuring was normal or a Linux power saving problem). I've been running open-source software under Windows for even longer, but when I was younger, that was primarily because of price. I've been thinking of a custom OS for my phone, but I haven't looked into them very seriously.

I've actually been having more problems with Linux since I decided to run it as my main OS instead of Windows. At first, I thought it was because I was running it daily on my main computer instead of just screwing around on a secondary computer (used less often and with less software). Then I got the Ryzen at the beginning of the year, and I thought my problems came from running a rolling-release distro to handle bleeding-edge hardware. Then I installed my old standby of Lubuntu on a 7th-gen Intel system, and 24.04 has weird little bugs that I haven't heard anyone else talk about. I finally downloaded Fedora KDE like I wanted to a while back, so I'll try it and see how it goes.

There's also non-technical stuff that I left out, but it's on my mind a lot more often.

1sudo systemctl disable nvidia-suspend.service

That got the screens to wake up after waking from sleep on Linux. Apparently was an issue when I set it up back in 2021 / 2022 and still an issue in 2024 at least.

I've put together a DEB package for latest international version of Flash Player that has both NPAPI / PPAPI plugins and standalone player. Apparently I'm not the only one messing with Flash in 2025, someone on GitHub made an updated libflashsupport.so library with PulseAudio backend that is a bit better than the ancient one from PulseAudio guy from 2007.

Apparently compiling software linked to C library on Linux makes it tied to that particular version used on the system where compilation took place or newer, it won't load on older. Flash itself seems to be linked to ancient 2006 version, I wonder what distro did they use to compile. Well, GCC on Ubuntu 8.04 (the first Ubuntu with PulseAudio) didn't understand some code in new libflashsupport.so I found, so I went with oldest supported Ubuntu from 2016.

You have to compile with oldest possible compiler for binary to be able to cover the most broad range of distro versions. Also, Debian / Ubuntu guys changed the package name of one dependent library of Flash itself between 2016 and now, other package was replaced with newer with slightly different name, if you make DEB on "too new" distro, then the old one doesn't understand its compression.

Still have to try the DEB on something from at least 2022. Fun!

It is possible that Linux puts lower power on USB ports that appear unused? Because my phone has a glitch that USB functions stop working after a while, so computer doesn't pick it up unless phone is rebooted. And it's been charging for 8 hours now and only got from 18% to 40%. The battery's capacity is 4000 mAH, it seems to go faster when Windows is in charge.

Somewhat related, I've picked up from workplace that it's possible to violate USB specs in subtle ways. We got one batch of older devices with USB-C port that didn't do something that should be done for USB-C. When you connected it to host with USB-C to USB-A cable (USB-A on the host), it worked, but if you connected it to host with USB-C to USB-C cable (USB-C), then it didn't power up. I forgot the details, electronics is like Chinese to me, something about some resistor that was supposed to be on some pin or something...if I'm not misremembering that as well.

Tried installing tempered glass screen protectors on a couple of Lenovo P11 Pro tablets. Ruined a few before one finally got attached fine with no dust specks or bubbles.
What can I say - the large size makes it much harder to apply perfectly than on a phone (I've done dozens of phones).
The "dust absorbers" and guide stickers that are included with some of them made a difference in my case. Guess practice makes perfect. Hopefully I'll do better next time.

UCyborg wrote on 2025-11-30, 11:00:

It is possible that Linux puts lower power on USB ports that appear unused?

Might have been when PC sleeps.

Regarding being disillusioned with modern world, same. I feel like I'm the only one who isn't crazy.

lti wrote on 2025-11-30, 03:30:

I will admit to buying bleeding-edge hardware whenever I decide to upgrade my modern computers, but I go several years between upgrades. My desktop that I bought in January has been on Linux from the start, aside from running Windows 11 for a few hours for troubleshooting (seeing if the high power consumption I was measuring was normal or a Linux power saving problem). I've been running open-source software under Windows for even longer, but when I was younger, that was primarily because of price. I've been thinking of a custom OS for my phone, but I haven't looked into them very seriously.

I've actually been having more problems with Linux since I decided to run it as my main OS instead of Windows. At first, I thought it was because I was running it daily on my main computer instead of just screwing around on a secondary computer (used less often and with less software). Then I got the Ryzen at the beginning of the year, and I thought my problems came from running a rolling-release distro to handle bleeding-edge hardware. Then I installed my old standby of Lubuntu on a 7th-gen Intel system, and 24.04 has weird little bugs that I haven't heard anyone else talk about. I finally downloaded Fedora KDE like I wanted to a while back, so I'll try it and see how it goes.

There's also non-technical stuff that I left out, but it's on my mind a lot more often.

ah, i can see that when getting the latest tech might inadvertently create problems. I use linux on some older circa 2010 PCs and even windows 10 is on similar machines. my smart phone is always some budget one. i leave most things default, just make sure i'm happy with any basic settings and privacy etc. I suppose in a way thought i'm dealing with the modern stuff by not actually being all that modern.... Still, i cannot change the rest of the world nor the immense inertia of the masses in their choices.