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I asked ChatGPT if it can generate a bunch of RAM for me. He says this is some kind of famous joke or something.

(I’m sorry I couldn’t resist)





"Downloading RAM" is more feasible than people think.

The seek time of a consumer-grade hard disk is said to be on the order of 10 ms. That's roughly the latency of a very high quality FTTH connection. Meaning that if you run a HDD rather than an SSD, a swap file in the cloud could potentially be faster than a local one (especially when you consider multiple reads/writes that could be done in parallel).

It's not exactly downloading more RAM but decently close to call it that for the joke.


Someone managed to boot a machine from a file system on Google Drive.

https://ersei.net/en/blog/fuse-root


Increasing swap is more like adding more HDD. It won't help memory pressure issues.

Yeah, not exactly just 1 million times slower.



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