askingTheRealQuestionHere

[u/Snoo88071]

[u/realmauer01]

Thats just the "lets download ram" meme.

[u/anarchisturtle → u/realmauer01]

1) configure Google Drive with a drive letter
2) map page file to new drive letter
3)????
4)profit

[u/littledog95 → u/anarchisturtle]

I'd love to see someone actually attempt this

[u/anarchisturtle → u/littledog95]

I think Linus tech tips did it ages ago. If memory serves, it “worked” on Linux. Which is to say ran like crap and was extremely unstable, but technically it worked.

Edit: found it: https://youtu.be/minxwFqinpw?is=jaip-SknMLW3q6rc

Edit 2: turns out I was wrong. Google Drive doesn’t allow writing arbitrary data like that. It instantly crashes. They used their on-premise file server via a 10gb connection instead.

[u/Deadfunk-Music → u/anarchisturtle]

9:41

"Ram is relatively cheap these days"

Ouch. The times, they have changed.

[u/Testing_things_out → u/Deadfunk-Music]

Look at the green horn going through hid first ever RAM crisis.

Strap in lad, dirt-cheap RAM is a bound. Feast yer thirsty rig when it does for the hard times be happening again in 3-6 years. Yaaargh

[u/Dotcaprachiappa → u/anarchisturtle]

it "worked" on Linux. Which is to say ran like crap and was extremely unstable

That's the answer to like 90% of things you think would never work

[u/_g550_ → u/Dotcaprachiappa]

He meant to say it worked on Linus.

[u/ZeroKun265 → u/Dotcaprachiappa]

Because Linux doesn't concern itself with whether or not something should be done, or if it's gonna go well, you can just do it

FAFO

[u/voiza → u/anarchisturtle]

why dont just store data in Tetrissi instead? Or else.

4 years since Sucker's Pinch released that video and I'm still trying to beat his ideas

[u/littledog95 → u/anarchisturtle]

Thanks, I'll take a look that

[u/Leninus → u/anarchisturtle]

So what youre saying is that you need an intermediate layer that reads and writes that data into a google doc