Fwiw you’re right, not having swap would render a system with specs like that nearly unusable in a modern workload however if you have decently fast storage you can assign yourself more swap than you normally would, say 8 gigs, to net you 12 gigs of working memory. It will be slow because programs will be dumped to disk frequently to make room for the active task but if you’re patient it’s usable.

On my MacBook for example: I run a super stripped down LMDE with a little bit of eye candy, not more than the tiny amount of onboard Vram can handle. My workload consist of writing rust in Lapce, reading documentation which I pull via wget and browse for with lynx) in a terminal using less. Occasionally I will run some retro games on the rig using DOSbox.

I’ve never encountered an OOM error on the system since deploying this specific workload, BUT this workload isn’t something that would work for the average end user. YMMV but as it stands, those who follow the unix philosophy (do one thing and do it well) or the KISS philosophy (keep it simple, stupid) in deployment of tasks can generally get by with a lot less due to limited overhead.

I will mention that this is my hobby: since I was around 7 and was gifted a laptop from 1995 (in 2003) I’ve always striven to make my limited hardware go FAR further than it is intended or designed to, often to great success

I left a comment here but I’m editing it to remove it because frankly I don’t care enough to argue with you.

Experienced users are known for being able to customize their install to be lightweight enough to function with modern tasks on old hardware. I myself have an install on an old 4gb MacBook Air that runs just as well as my server with 64 gb of RAM for the task load that I’ve deployed on it.

4gigs is a perfectly reasonable amount of RAM for word processing, web browsing, retro gaming, basic development (if you’ve got another rig to deploy compilations to), and a whole host of other applications.

Thank you 🙏🙏

Can you explain that please? I just read the document and I don’t see why this is true.

The competitive online gaming community is not the gaming community.

Kernel anti-cheat does not work on Linux

And hopefully never will.

Please keep the spyware on the spyware operating system.

I’ve been a Linux user nearly exclusively) for over 20 years, I still keep an iPad and a windows desktop around for government stuff because the their apps and websites don’t work on my hardened systems (sus) or through TOR (less sus).

That’s a white elephant gift.

If he’s still around, maintenance on that thing isn’t gonna be affordable

Bad art is still art

I wish the Wii had a better Mii channel, I could’ve done so much better with the Switch version of the app, but I feel the jump back 18 years in tech is worth it for meme value.

I’ve met people who don’t know humans are animals.

All of them.

Art is art is art.

Friend did you play Skyrim?

I don’t mean to be all “Bethesda slop good” but the story they’re telling (outside the main quest) is pretty spot on regarding rampant racism and nationalism tearing apart a country already at the behest of a small cabal of criminals. Vampires living on a private island want to extinct the earth so they can hunt free for a couple years just spells it out even clearer.

While travel there is inadvisable, I’m sure you could find a place to live in “The Zone of Death”, a 50 squsre Mile section of Yellowstone National Park that is between jurisdiction for states and is largely unpatrolled. Travel there is highly inadvisable because of you get hurt, you’re not gonna get found, and you’re probably gonna end up prey or starve to death.

Additionally, crimes are nearly impossible to try if committed in the area due to requirement of a jury trial. It is impossible in the area to establish a jury of residents, as the area is uninhabited.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_Death_(Yellowstone)

The flash memory the OS is stored on is borked.

Filesystem check shows dependency errors attempting to check ext4 fs on /dev/mmcblk0p2. Assuming ext4 and fsck are installed (it should be if this isn’t a mega-custom ultra stripped down private distribution) this shouldn’t be possible.

Further down networking fails to initialize leading to a bunch of fails before it succeeds and reaches its target, only to be stopped by the dependency errors again.

Wearing Google wiretap instead of putting it in your home isn’t much better. Honestly it’s probably worse.

Agreed, I’ve always seen it as more of a tech demo than a feature film

Hon’ some people don’t know you can align the USB by checking if the holes on the outside are filled or not and have to deal with the unraveling the USB superposition dance.

Getting a USB in on the first try is considered wizardry by average person. Booting from one? May as well be Zeus with command of electrons like that.

I’ve got a SCPH-5501, after they “fixed” the swap trick (you have to do it twice, with really good timing to do it on that model) so it was worth it to use a scam memory card that corrupted if I had more than 3 saves on it to make a tonyhax card.

Been a great time going back and playing ff7 and frogger 2.

Thank you for clarifying, my bad😅