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  • The better options do cost twice as much

    Yeah thwre are a lot of better options for lots more money. But I don’t have that kind of money.

    I need lots of RAM for as cheaply as possible while also being low-ish on the power cpnsumption. There is for example old server hardware on ebay that has 64GB or more RAM but draws like 300W idle. And it’s not even that much cheaper to buy. Like I said for me, a 40W difference is about 100$ per year, so anything lower power than my current server will eventually pay for itself.

    I would have gone with amd or intel or whatever, but I didn’t find anything in that price range.



  • I tried selfhosting a game server and it was laggy as hell on 8GB RAM. Then I ran it on my laptop that has 32GB and it ran fine and all friends were able to play. Was consuming aboyt 25GB (but still may run with less)

    But I’m not gonna run my laptop as a server because it is fully glued and I can’t take out the battery without destroying it.

    Another tool I looked into requires at least 16GB RAM.

    So maybe for your usecase it’s fine. But for me, I can’t do half the stuff I want cause my cluster server has low RAM nodes. Even though it has 32GB in total (4x8)













  • HelloRoot@lemy.lolto3DPrinting@lemmy.worldFilament quality
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    16 days ago

    in my experience brand filament was less hassle to print with.

    I bought cheapo noname filament a couple of times from different manufacturers and it was very hit and miss.

    Worst case was I fiddled with printer settings for 6hours, drying it multiple times and many failed prints. Then I put in bambu filament and it printed perfectly with default settings.

    But best case was just as good as the expensive stuff.

    So you have to know yourself how much the gamble is worth it to you, what your frustration tolerance is etc.