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Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] teft@piefed.social 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The biggest differences are speed and max amount of ram per module. For a htpc those shouldn't matter much. I wouldn't personally go to ddr3 unless I had some free sticks hanging out since the spec is about 20 years old now.

[โ€“] 4am@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 hours ago

DDR3 is also pretty power hungry. Source: me, who built a homelab out of old DDR3 rackmount servers and can now no longer afford to run them.