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Tsk Tsk. Making fun of your parents for their lack of RAM at your age
- Jokes on me my parents only needed half a gigabyte of memory to do anything they could possibly imagine
  
  512MB? Windows XP had 128MB recommended.
  How old are your parents? How old are YOU? Should you even be online?
  
  Mine had money because they refused to buy a PC at all. They were new at that time and the average cost for one back then was like 3k, they said nah were good.

- But Mr. Gates, Sir. I would like to load my video driver please.

I lead and manage a financial/tech team in a critical, well-established company.
I haven't had a pay raise in 2 years and still work hourly.
It wasn't always like this, the last several years have really, really escalated the global undercurrent of hate towards employees. I feel like every single meeting in not just this company but many others (I have eyes in other places) always report "exceeding financial projections" while at the same time scaling back benefits, hiring and wages. Many other companies I've watched get digested by private equity after faking their own value, so it's basically every business-owner's goal right now to get bought out for millions and leave the employees stranded.
For that matter, I have years of experience in this industry as well as experience managing, using the tools and software, and doing somewhat specialized analysis work, and it still took almost two years unemployed after my last position got gutted just to land this job and it took twisting the arms of contacts and acquaintances.
During those two years I exhausted every avenue and encountered more scams and ghost-jobs than I can count.
Lemmy, I know you really don't want to hear this, but if you're not actively making contacts, playing the game and being social, your chances of getting a job that doesn't involve a you wearing an apron and name-tag and cutting you off at 39 hours a week is fucking abysmal. You have to exercise muscles you didn't know you had if you want to land a stable job even adjacent to your actual qualifications.
Degrees, certifications, etc. are still important, but it's bare-minimum, hiring managers broadly are looking for people with enough experience (or can fake having experience) that they don't need as much training and people who are social and friendly enough that they feel "at ease" bringing new people in, because so many of them have been directed to keep costs as low as possible. So much of this shit is vibes-based right now.
- I think a better takeaway is this... Hiring runs on nepotism. It always has, but for a while you could go through an application process and land a decent job
  You have to work your social connections to find a job these days. People are just way more willing to put in the energy to evaluate you if they have someone vouching for you
  Especially now with remote work and AI... The screening process has devolved into nonsense. If they're not pulling your resume out of the stack, it's very likely no human is looking at it
  
  The process is weeding out everyone who feels awkward about self-promotion or being pushy, which is a shame since that also weeds out a lot of fantastic candidates. I'm sure upper-level management doesn't care, but in the trenches I much rather have people who are experts at their work or are smart and can get the work done than outgoing business-speakers who like to be seen and heard.
  But that can't be changed. We have to adapt and learn to be at least a little pushy and get out of our comfort zones.
- I know it's obviously much easier said than done, but this is exactly why unions exist.
  I have a union position, and none of what you just said applies to me. It's wonderful.
  
  Union jobs seem to apply to specific trades. I haven't heard the word uttered in my entire last decade of jumping between tech/finance sector work, and I wouldn't dare utter it.
- I’d very much like to see the Accountable Capitalism act hit these companies. Force them to rethink their employee-hating positions when they need their votes to win over the board.

Just download more RAM, holy shit
- 👎 download more RAM
  👍 make software use less RAM
  
  👎 download more RAM
  👍 ~~make software use less RAM~~ make development take 10 times longer and get fired from your precarious dev job as you wasted time making optimisations no one needed nor asked for
  Fixed that for ya
- https://downloadmoreram.com/

Is this the death of somewhat affordable computing?
- This is part of the death of accessible luxury goods entirely.
  It's not just RAM, it's every other computer part, it's your milk and coffee, it's your gas, it's your plans on getting a car that actually works, it's your chances at owning any kind of investment ever.
  The forces of capital succeed when people want things, and no better way to make people want things than take away everything else. Gotta get those black friday stampedes at Best Buy and the only way you do that is make it too tempting to pass up paying only 150% markup on TV's instead of the usual 200%
- You can compute on DDR3 just fine, I do it every day..

Remember kids: Unused memory is wasted memory.

This hurts, I finally decided to build my first own PC like 2 months ago, got everything planned out but decided to wait for black friday to actually order all the parts. Now I have everything except RAM and an SSD, because I refuse to pay those prices 🥲 Maybe I'll buy a single second hand 8GB stick just to find out whether my system even boots..
- My current PC is decently specced today but it's definitely a very ship of Theseus situation. Everything apart from the ram and motherboard has been changed over the years as new deals sprung up and I could afford better parts. You can definitely make due with less until either the shit floats away or you end up in a better financial situation.
  
  Yeah, that's what I'm hoping to do with my system too! I'm not even in a bad financial situation rn, I just don't really need that PC asap and don't want to encourage the current market by actually buying at those inflated prices. It's gonna be a very cool setup once DDR5 RAM goes back to being affordable, but in the meantime it's just a very expensive adhd pile on my floor xD

I thought this was going to be about female sheep. Instead, there's a long argument about a ram.
- Oooh, thank you for explaining the joke. I was confused why sheep were involved.
  
  Ewe were?

LOL, that exact model of RAM kicked the bucket in my PC last week. The two sticks died pretty much simultaneously. Thank fuck it was only half of a mismatched set, so my PC can still run on the other half

You shoud definitely build it soon, even if just to test it.
If you don't, it will invariably be your bad luck that a component doesn't work and you are then past the return window...

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