I’m a software architect. I work with large amounts of data. And a sizeable RAM disk is generally useful for many purposes. And yes, I also run AI locally, though that’s what my RTX 4090 is for.

IBM stopped their support for LTFS, unfortunately. Which I kinda want to use despite all the drawbacks. And well, the RAM disk workaround does the trick, so there’s not enough pain to compel me into investing more time into the issue.

Oh, there can be all kinds of uses.

For example, I own an LTO tape drive. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get the IBM drivers to compile on my particular flavor of Linux, but I do have a dual boot system.

Now, Windows is a shitty, shitty OS that I only boot up when I really need to. It interferes with all kinds of stuff in ways I hate, for example - copying files. It just refuses to read large files in a continuous, reliable data stream without any interruptions from my SSD when backing them up to tape. This causes the LTO drive to slow down, speed up, rewind, which is not a good thing because it causes additional wear on the tape.

Fix: Create a large RAM drive, copy files to RAM drive, run backup with RAM drive as source.

Built my new PC in late 2023… so glad I put 96 GB of RAM into it, despite several people asking me why the fuck I need so much RAM…

Sorry, I kinda suspected it was sarcasm but wasn’t 100% sure.

Sorry if I’m mistaken or failing to detect your irony, but isn’t Utah this highly conservative state, with a vast majority of the population being white (or Hispanic, which to me counts as “white but speaking Spanish”) and where most people follow a crackpot religion which basically views fun things like sex, drugs, alcohol and homosexuality as a sin?

Comparing that to Berlin, a permissive, irreligious, hedonistic, multi-ethnic place, brimming with culture and open-minded people, seems rather far-fetched to me.

And Berlin would be in fucking Utah… as someone who lives in Berlin, I strongly resent this notion.

Well, it is a huge problem for me. Home office, so no charging at workplace. And the only charging stations around where I live (eastern part of Berlin) are slooooow charging stations, meaning I would have to plan for a 6-hour visit to the supermarket.

Quick charge stations are few and far between, and in use most of the time.

That doesn’t just take a bit of time getting used to, it’s simply not feasible.

Germany is the European country with the highest percentage of people who rent homes instead of owning them.

Which automatically means we’re dependent on public charging infrastructure for our cars, which is woefully underdeveloped.

I would love to buy an electric car but it just doesn’t make any sense. There’s your real reason, dear French newspaper.

Yes, Nutella and Milka are probably the best tasting foods of their categories - if you factor in the price tag. They’re this popular for a reason.

If you don’t, I could think of a list of better tasting products than them. Problem is, they are significantly more expensive and it’s up to everyone to decide if it’s worth spending that much more.

As for chocolate, I’m willing to spend much more, because I’ve gone down that chocolate rabbit hole for a long time now. And I’ve tried a lot of the world’s best chocolate.

It’s a bit like whisky - if you’ve tasted Macallan, you don’t want to go back to Johnny Walker.

So true. They “won” the “Mogelpackung des Jahres 2025” award in Germany (“deceptive packaging of the year 2025”). Absolutely fuck them with a big chocolate dick.

That being said, I kinda stopped buying cheap chocolate with soy lecithine and all the other crap in it anyway. Chocolate with real cocoa butter just tastes better, I think. If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right.

There are some smaller companies that make much better quality chocolate for a still reasonable price. A fine example would be Rausch.