Ugh, damn post title. I went through the whole article looking for the alternatives before realizing the title of the article says nothing about alternatives.

Seems like a “win-win” for the power companies to me. Not sure what your problem is.

Does a thing like crowd-sourcing ram work?

No.

Is it a thing?

No.

This would probably be the symptoms though, yeah?

No.

You seem very confused about what RAM is and what’s happening here. You seem to think that RAM is something you make on your computer. It’s a physical part of your computer that you load information into.

Imagine you’re sitting at a desk in an office. The desk has little shelves where you can put documents you’re working on. You can only put a small number of files there. The office has filing cabinets where other files are kept that you’re not working on. You can store a lot in there but it takes time to go find it. You also have some special filing cabinets that are still slow but you only use it to store files temporarily that someone brings you from another office, or when you run out of space on your desk but still need to keep files handy.

In this analogy, the shelves on the desk is RAM. You only put the stuff you’re immediately working on in those shelves because of the limited space, but it’s really fast to find stuff compared to the filling cabinets, which are your hard drive. When you go on a website, like YouTube, you’re calling someone in an office in another building and asking them for some files. They send over a bunch of files, which takes a really long time. You put a much as possible in your desk shelves to use right now, but anything that doesn’t fit you put in one of those special filing cabinets, which will call the cache, which is slow, but not nearly as slow as waiting for the files to come from the other office. When you’re ready for the extra files from YouTube, you just grab them from the cache.

What’s happening in this problem with youtube is that you request the files from them, they send them over, along with instructions on how to use them. The instructions say something that requires putting a bunch of things in RAM. At first this is normal. But at some point the instructions start repeating and tell you to put more and more files into RAM, maybe even repeats of files you already have there, shouldn’t need again. But you just follow instructions, that’s your job. So you keep loading things into RAM, but then there’s no room left and your system falls apart and you can no longer do any work. Until you close youtube and chuck all the youtube files out of RAM.

Hopefully that makes it clear why you can’t outsource RAM. Essentially you would be putting your little desk shelves in a different office, but we already have a better solution than that: the cache or special local filing cabinet on your hard drive.

What we outsource normally is the hard drive (filing cabinets) and call it cloud storage (for example), and the creation and processing of information (done by the CPU, GPU, or other chips on your computer) and call it cloud computing (for example). That’s because those things are slow, and the extra time to move the files between offices isn’t necessarily the bottleneck.

Yeah… <blinks>

Well how’s it untypical?

As others have mentioned, all you need to do is replace the connector where the red wire broke off. Since this piece isn’t strictly necessary for printing, you can use it for a learning moment if you’ve never done anything like that before.

Don’t tell anyone I told you but if you look for videos on how those connectors work, you can probably figure out how to keep using the existing connector and just remove the old bit of broken off red wire and reconnect the main part of the wire.

Yes, and requests for those features get ignored in the competitors’ forums.

Sub-tile icon/widget placement, I’m looking at you!

I’m not sure actually. I know it’s usually found with methane and in massive quantities. Maybe just sealed in by rock and time?

The problem is that helium is notoriously hard to contain. It’s transported and stored super-cooled, but it still gases off, and to release pressure they just have to release it into the atmosphere. It effectively has a shelf life and so it has to be constantly replenished.

Tilt on an angle, tap the neck.

Has the accuracy of the snapshots actually changed based on this edit? After all, if it’s factual information being presented…

Yes! Quite literally, yes. They’re supposed to be an archive of what is on other sites. It doesn’t matter if the original site was, right, wrong, complete, incomplete, accurate, inaccurate, factual, unfactual, etc. If they change things, they’re editorializing and are no longer an archive, they’re new content - which is not the purpose people use them for.

I do agree that it raises the issue of what other modifications there may be,

That’s literally the point. It doesn’t matter how much you “understand the reasoning” (though you also think it’s childish and don’t agree with the actions). You can use it if you want to, no one is stopping you. The point is Wikipedia can’t trust it as a source of archived data and has every right to ban it.

That’s inappropriate, childish, and unprofessional. It makes them untrustworthy for citations. There are better ways of handling it.

If altering snapshots for a grudge isn’t your definition of “behaving poorly” for a site archiving the state of the Internet, then you must not think they have to be an accurate source of information. If they’re not an accurate source of information, then Wikipedia has no obligation to allow them to be used in citations, and they should remove such citations.

It sounds like archive.today is behaving poorly. As far as I know, Wikipedia isn’t exactly “big money”. If you know different on either front, can you please explain. Otherwise your comments are meaningless.

You can still install the drivers, you just don’t get them through windows update. I hate when windows update touches my drivers without my permission, so this sounds like a win-win.

Damn, I think I’ve finally forgotten my ICQ number.

Thanks. I’m not write sure why this whole conversation is even happening…

inane [ɪˈneɪn]

adjective

1. lacking sense or meaning; silly:

   “don’t badger people with inane questions”

Also, the original article had a perfectly fine title. It’s pretty standard when posting to keep the title of the original article you’re linking to instead of editorializing it, unless you’re specifically going to fix something and note that.

Here, let me help you: copy, paste.

Your comment was inane, which is why I gave the “no, you”.

It’s missing key information, and without that information the title doesn’t make sense, and kind of isn’t as interesting. Now read your comment as if I wrote it back to you.