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[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 22 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (3 children)

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(version 2.0 could triple your RAM)

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 22 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Use with caution.

Back in the day, I used this multiple times. It was all good fun at first, but after a few dozen times, something went wrong involving a black hole and the destruction of the universe. And what's worse, after I rebooted the universe, I still had issues. Harambe got killed and then humanity was shunted to the bad timeline. Still looking for a fix.

Just FYI, don't double your RAM too many times in a row without taking into account the mass-energy content of all that RAM.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 14 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You heard it here first folks, straight from the horses mouth: it's all this guys fault the world sucks.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 13 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry, I just wanted more RAM.

[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 4 points 14 hours ago

You know who else wanted more RAM? Harambe. I hope you're fucking happy now

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 2 points 21 hours ago

... Reed, is that you?

[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

At least this looks like it actually tried to do something.

There was similar software for Windows, called SoftRAM. Turns out it didn't actually do anything. Their driver was just sample code from Microsoft, and the app reported fake RAM savings.