I can imagine this guy showing up at the funeral of a car crash victim and making a speech about how road deaths are a good thing and he doesn’t understand why they don’t see that.

Maybe but hardly anyone had 32GB of RAM 5 years ago so that’s unlikely to feed into the average. My original thought was that I don’t think the average will go down, because people will keep their current hardware for longer. Maybe we will see mobos with modern sockets and DDR4 support if this drags on, but hopefully the bubble will burst by Christmas and we’ll all be picking up refurbished DDR5 for pennies from the decommissioned data centres.

Well the last couple of years is pretty restrictive. If you’re upgrading every few years you’ll probably just bite the bullet and pay for the RAM.

My last comment was basically saying you can upgrade to the top of the line CPU that fits your mobo, giving you an upgrade for not too much cash. Better than forking out for DDR5.

Not necessarily, most people will be able to upgrade their CPU to a better model with the same socket. Sockets aren’t updated every time a CPU is released, and most people won’t be buying the top of the top even if they were, meaning there’s room to grow as prices drop.

I just find it hard to imagine people will buy a worse computer instead of keeping the one they have, but I’ll happily admit it if I turn out to be wrong.

Well, that’s a good point. However, if I wanted to export a CSV with only one decimal place, it would be mighty annoying if changing it to one in Excel didn’t save it like that in the CSV. Unless there was another option to control that.

Yeah thanks, I didn’t understand the original problem but I’ve got it now 🙂

Ahhh, the excel format keeps the precision but changes the display to 1 decimal. When exported to CSV, only that 1 decimal is exported, so you can’t bring back what isn’t there. But the original file still has it.

I understand now, thanks! Definitely a coworker problem not an Excel problem then.

Yeah but we are talking about a widespread drop in the average, which I’d think would be more influenced by people upgrading (or not) rather than gear dying.

Among gamers?

I didn’t even realise 32 was standard, I’ve really only seen 8 or 16 for normal consumer grade stuff.

But wouldn’t people just stick with their current PC instead of downgrade?

Especially because they very likely can get a better CPU with the same socket, and a better graphics card.

I find it hard to imagine a scenario where you would go to less RAM instead of keeping what you have.

Why would the average drop? People already have the RAM so wouldn’t we just see it stagnate?

Maybe, by why wouldn’t Excel let uou increase the number of digits in a CSV? The data is currently in Excel, and more digits isn’t incompatible with the CSV format.

I got married and it doesn’t come with any tax benefits 😭

If you’re open to it, I’ve seen maintainers go to “maintenance mode”.

Write it high in the readme so people see it, and write what it means: basically that you’re not accepting PRs, you’re not developing new features, but you will do bug fixes and basic maintenance (dependency updates, etc).

It seems it’s a word used for lots of woods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_wood

Maybe the eucalyptus one would be most likely?

A surprising finding! Unfortunately followed by many paragraphs saying don’t eat more cheese unless you’re currently eating none.

And a conclusion:

That said, the data do not justify eating large amounts of cheese or cream as protective foods against dementia or heart disease. The most consistent message remains that balanced diets, moderation and overall lifestyle matter far more than any single item on the cheese board.

Early 2026! Which since we are already halfway through the first quarter of the year, that means it’s only like 4 years away in Valve Time.

In my experience it’s not quite the same. Using webdav through the distro account seems that it’s fully online. And folder access or file access contacts the server.

The virtual file experience is more of a hybrid. All the folders actually exist on disk, as well as shells for every file. If you try to open a virtual file, in the background Windows will seamlessly download it for you. At that point the file is actually on your disk. This way regularly accessed files on on your hard drive and seldom accessed ones are not, saving local hard drive space while providing an experience almost like if all the files were actually on your drive.

I just finished RoboCop: Rogue City.

It was enjoyable, but I did have to look up how to beat the final boss, where I realised I had missed an entire game mechanic (upgrading your default gun using boards you find around the place). I thought you just got to put upgrades into the board, I didn’t realise you were supposed to change the board to newer better ones as you found them.