My generalizations are perfectly valid, because they’re completely true. YOU are not most people, or most families. You are in a very large minority here, by being over 29, and being so young but had a grandpa who fought in the war. You’re well below 5% out of the federation here.

*Final note to add: I specifically said (along with the original post) “grandma’s”. Not grandpa’s. So your pawpaw fighting in WW2 isn’t any validation as a sound argument. An old man will marry and have kids with a young woman. It seldom goes the other way around.

Trickle down effect. The people who want ddr5 are settling on the higher end ddr4.

Two ram sticks are the best way to have the highest performance (2 16GB sticks are better than 4 8GB sticks). No one really wants to build a new PC with just 16GB of ram now, so people are looking for 32GB and 16GB sticks of ram. They also don’t want the slower ram, so they’re looking for 3,400+ mhz speed ram.

So for people wanting a gaming or video editing or ai system, no one wants the 8GB sticks of 2,400mhz ram sticks in your machines.

The demand has increased in ddr4 because it increased so much for ddr5. While all the data centers and ai bullshit needs the 5, it’s caused everyone wanting ddr4 to still need ddr4, and now people who wanted ddr5 to settle on getting ddr4 on the higher end speeds and capacitties.

DDR4 is currently like double the price is was 6 months ago.

Usually in the most petty of ways.

How are other countries on drivers not being on their cell phones or watching their phones\browsing? The US is terrible about it. It’s not legal most places, but it’s also not very enforced. I figured that was a bigger cause than the rise in vehicle size.

That makes me think your mobo or PU has to be going out. 3 ram sticks on 2 different channels can’t off themselves all at once unless they were getting voltage all jacked up.

So it wasn’t an adult since they were 18? It also wouldn’t have been better said to be a teenager since it is also age accurate? Instead you chose “child”, specifically for the clicks.

So if you shut the computer down and swap the 1 ram stick out with any of the other ones using the same slot, it won’t work? The one working stick works in any of the 4 slots?

Most people here are under 40.

Your grandma was only 16 when the war ended, so she didn’t do a thing in it.

Most kids are born before their parents turn 30, so for most people who are currently 40 years old their grandparents were too young to fight in the war.

Even if you’re grandma was older and your grandparents could have did anything in WW2, you’d still be in the minority for “most people on Lemmy”.

It’s 2025. There’s barely a person on Lemmy whose grandma’s were more than 15 years old in the early 1940’s.

If your computer boots to is your ram can’t all be dead. Pull the 1st and 3rd stick out. If that doesn’t work then put them back and pull the 2nd and 4th stick out. If that doesn’t work, like someone else mentioned, pull and replace your cmos battery, which should also reset your bios to default. If that doesn’t work use a program to do a complete uninstall of your video card drivers and do a clean install of your video card drivers. If that fails, try changing (after you research settings a bit for your mobo) ram configuration settings in your bios. If that fails it’s probably your PSU or mobo. If your PSU, bios config, or mobo fail it can cause a ram stress test to fail.

Stop making gotcha titles that are BS. Are you fox news?

So it still gets something else to do the work for you without paying for it?

All I can imagine is “dumb as hell”

I’ll keep my unkillable Gen 2 Prius. 281,000 miles on the odometer, original engine, replaced the hybrid battery a few years back with a brand new one from Toyota (that I installed myself after convincing a dealership to just sell one to me) and knock on wood, but that’s the last maintenance item I’ve even had to spend any money on.

Too bad quality dropped off after the Gen 2 years.

Well it was a post internet meme. It was just a meme of something that happened pre internet… Pre internet in the sense that most people didn’t know what the internet was yet, anyhow. It was a thing. Just not a thing regular people were using, yet.

Tostinos pizzas used to be the perfect size and tasted good.

They shrank them. Then made them square. Then shrank them again.

Clickbait and ai bullshit from Google feed is pretty much all I’ve ever seen from them in the past year.

That contributed to all Linux. Gamers Nexus exclusively using Bazite for their Linux game testing is giving them specifically, a big bump.

Mostly all thanks to Gamers Nexus, I’d wager.