I don’t know why you’re being downvoted. That is exactly what they are. Glasses in the 70’s and 80’s could auto-darken in the presence of bright light. It caused issues with flash photography, though.

Most of my family wore them (parents and uncles) and all of their photos are like this.

Nobody I’ve ever worked with in the hardware side of IT has ever called storage “memory” and I’ve been doing this for well over 30 years.

When our devs refer to memory, we are always asking them to differentiate between RAM and storage.

I'm going to be pedantic here - there is only one kind of memory in a computer and that is RAM (Random Access Memory). The data that is in memory is stored there as long as the computer is on and the operating system is fully booted. All of your programs that are running (like Chrome, Photoshop or Notepad) are running in memory. When you reboot your computer or power it off, whatever is in memory gets cleared out, or deleted.

Hard drives, whether they be spinning disks (HDD) or SSD's, are storage, not memory. The data stored in them is retained after a reboot or power cycle of the computer.

OP's wording of his question and your answer are the reasons why people get confused about memory vs. storage.

Memory, yes. Storage, no.

OP is conflating memory and storage. He says memory but means storage.

This is a huge pet peeve of mine. My non-computer illiterate friends me ask me, “How can I clear up my memory? It’s full.”

You can’t. You can’t clear up memory like you do with storage. Memory and storage are two distinct things. They don’t understand the difference.

Most of my friends don’t ask me computer questions anymore because I get all pedantic on them.

Yeah, my Q5 TDI was not happy to have to start in -40F temps, but it did start. I let it idle for a good half hour, just to get the fluids going. The thing with diesels in the winter is that they are more efficient engines and don't run as hot as gas engines, so they take forever to warm up.

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After letting it sit idling for a half hour, I drove the 10 miles into town (we were staying in a primitive cabin in the middle of the woods) and by the time I got into town, my temp gauge had just started to move up. When I pulled into the gas station, it went right back down to zero. On the drive back, it barely moved.

Confirm what, exactly? Engine oil does not freeze. It gets more viscous, but it doesn’t freeze. -10F is not that cold. It’s that cold most of January and February here in MN, and my Q5 TDI starts up every day.

Your engine oil will not freeze. WTF are you talking about? I live in MN. In northern MN it regularly gets well below zero. Last winter it was below -40F and my Q5 TDI started right up after sitting outside overnight. If the oil was frozen ( which it won’t), the engine wouldn’t even be able to turn over.

Even if it COULD freeze, it isn’t going to in the 5-10 minutes it takes to fill up your gas tank.

So much misinformation in the thread…

Not a single word of this is true. Complete made up bullshit.