• boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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    3 months ago

    I can let updates continue in the background

    That’s used memory

    I can open a web-browser on a second monitor

    That’s used memory

    I can afford to buy less memory

    But I bet you don’t, because you look at your computer say it’s all being used - when actually a lot is being used for caching and is freed upon request.

    I can run a server on the same computer, instead of having to buy another one to become a dedicated server

    That’s, again, used memory

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      3 months ago

      That’s used memory

      That’s memory not hogged by a single program, making me able to use it for other stuff.

      because you look at your computer say it’s all being used

      You’re lucky you didn’t bet any material thingy on it. I wait for the OOM killer to fire up before saying, “it’s full”.
      While I do have enough memory on my desktop, I only have 8GB on my laptop (the other 8GB one I bought, went bad early, or maybe it’s just the slot that has stopped working, it could be anything), making it hard to even use the clang tools on large projects.


      So there is this game called “Endless Sky” and its high-dpi stuff is in another separate package.
      If I install the high-dpi package on the laptop, it crashes before even completely starting, while it works perfectly well, on removing the high-dpi package.