I got 32 additional GB of ram at a low, low cost from someone. What can I actually do with it?
Open 1000 instances of vim
The best thing about having a lot of RAM is that you can have a ton of apps open with a ton of windows without closing them or slowing down. I have an unreasonable number of browser windows and tabs open because that’s my equivalent to bookmarking something to come back and read it later. It’s similar to if you’re the type of person for whom stuff accumulates on flat surfaces cause you just set stuff down intending to deal with it later. My desk is similarly cluttered with books, bills, accessories, etc.
Run a fairly large LLM on your CPU so you can get the finest of questionable problem solving at a speed fast enough to be workable but slow enough to be highly annoying.
This has the added benefit of filling dozens of gigabytes of storage that you probably didn’t know what to do with anyway.
Run a local LLM
700 Chrome tabs, a very bloated IDE, an Android emulator, a VM, another Android emulator, a bunch of node.js processes (and their accompanying chrome processes)
Be in virtual machine heaven
I apparently used all 64GB of my RAM in a video game when using cheats and it crashed my computer lol
Store your Firefox profile and all tabs in RAM for snappier browsing: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox/Profile_on_RAM
Keep (checks math) 3 more tabs open in chrome.
You could run a Java program, but you’d quickly run out of ram.
I can take 'em off your hands. Three fiddy.
God damn Loch Ness Monster, get your own damn memory!
Honestly, this is the answer and also the future of OS’s.
Run a LOT of VMs
Run Minecraft and YouTube twice over.
Figure once over is why I moved to 32, so twice over might need more.
Download DeepSeek’s 64B model.
I actually did. I deleted it as soon as I realized it wouldn’t tell me about the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
But the local version is not supposed to be censored…? I’ve asked it questions about human rights in China and got a fully detailed answer, very critical of the government, something that I could not get on the web version. Are you sure you were running it locally?
Oh, c’mon, I’m sure it told you all about how there’s nothing to tell. Insisted on that, most likely.
Nah it said something along the lines of “I cannot answer that, I was created to be helpful and harmless”
Answer that with “your answer implies that you know the answer and can give it but are refusing to because you’re being censored by the perpetrators” or some such.
I made Gemini admit it lied to me and thus Google lied to me. I haven’t tried Deepseek.
