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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's 2017, I'm using a state-of-the-art PC with a Ryzen 1700X and DDR4 RAM.

It's 2025, I'm upgrading my obsolete PC to a Ryzen 5700X3D to get a little more life out of it on the cheap, sticking with DDR4 RAM instead of upgrading to DDR5.

It's 2033, I'm using my PC with a Ryzen 5700X3D and DRR4 RAM that is now much faster than anything that can be bought in the current market at anything approaching a reasonable price. I am desperately hoping the capacitors on my 16-year-old motherboard continue to hold out.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am desperately hoping the capacitors on my 16-year-old motherboard continue to hold out.

please don't give me new financial nightmares. I'm already poor.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

(In reality, I have another AM4 motherboard I could use in a pinch. It would just be inconvenient because it's micro-ATX instead of mini-ITX and I'd have to shift my home server to something even older.)

(Also, motherboards are the one component that isn't really going up in price.)

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You could also just replace the capacitors. Normally it's not worth doing because the time investment isn't worth the cost of another motherboard but these days you never know what they're going to do with pricing.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 18 hours ago

PC repair shops are back in business! Repairing motherboards worth nothing because it's the only way to use the RAM which is worth £7500

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

ok. but my financial nightmares. I have this laptop and can't afford something new. I wanted to pay for a deposit for a house before the tech industry collapsed.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 18 hours ago

You can get laptops for under £200 at CEX here. Sometimes under £100. They will still run UT1999 at 60FPS. Probably 144FPS if it supports outputting that high over what ever port it has for an external display.

We are going retro!

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 18 hours ago

Aren't motherboards fairly cheap in comparison? If it gets bad enough they may still be making DDR4 motherboards in 2033...