Oh, I’m not disagreeing with it being weird, my main point was to switch the weirdness towards battery use as nothing else matters.

And CPU doesn’t bottleneck RAM usage.

As for use case (which again, I’m not disagreeing as my main point is “it wouldn’t affect you in any way other than battery” + “they prob went with the cheapest option that still works, just like they did with CPU”), prob apps being fully in RAM and not swap, not closing old apps, etc. So like FF & 3 chat/social media apps (they all have inefficiently big libraries), a few store and service apps (for car/taxi/food delivery/etc), none need to leave RAM. Idk how to get to 32, but perhaps over 16.

And again I point out that it’s just what they did for the project to survive, it’s clearly frankensteined from the cheapest sensible parts. In your analogy the i3 with 32 or 128GB of RAM, if sold at the same price, will preform the same for most users.

Bus already pointed out about actually having the chance to use the RAM.

In regards to cost - I would be confident they chose what was optimal, you can’t compare this to retail PC market, these are specific b2b deals, they could have literally gotten the 32GB chips significantly cheaper than 16GB.

What I’m not confident is battery usage, 32 giggies will use twice the power (which isn’t a lot but it is all the time, you don’t really turn off RAM) of the exact chip in 16 giggler flavour.

CPU bottlenecking isn’t really RAM related. And I wouldn’t say nowdays 5 year old CPUs are outdated (like a 5yo chip 10 or 15 years ago). I would use my phone much as my PC, so an old CPU but plenty of RAM sounds about what I want.
Also it’s Linux, not some bloated megacorp OS, so it’s a bit better, tho apps remain much the same (eg browsers & web pages).

The new eMMCs are 400MB/s (so SATA-ish level) with random writes about there as well, it depends what specifically they’ll be using. It’s also more power efficient than SSDs, however it can’t address more than 256GB (so consider SD speeds too).

There also isn’t anything wrong with having a lot of RAM if it doesn’t impact the battery considerably. Which it prob does.

Maybe ‘the same way windows is’ IBM-DOS

Soon to be closed-software Linux??? /s

Grow up (enough) and adjusting your pp becomes a chore.

… that is def not my case, openSUSE is saving me a lot of time.

I’ve switched all my fiends & family (desktops) to Tumbleweed like 5 years ago bcs I don’t have to do any maintenance ever (not even customisation at the beginning, beyond setting them accounts). It has always been stable with exception that they only became “almost” out-of-the-box gaming friendly only in recent year or two.

Tumbleweed is just there, always updated, and feels nice. Oh, it’s not the quickest boot maybe?

Previously (15+ years, maybe 20 my parents) I had my family on Debians/Ubuntus which were stable but always very fiddly to distro upgrade, I don’t even remember what went wrong with old Fedora, but I changed it back in less than a year (almost 10 years ago, not relevant).

Yes, but bad example pics are used bcs the right panel example is also built by humans and is very efficient for the intent.

So both pics are great examples for the left panel - the AI would produce a clusterfuck of convoluted multilevel railways that would never see irl implementations in the railway business.

Yeah, nowdays DEs embedded customisation options cover so must of their default user-base needs that they are basically fully automatic rice cookers.

And that is how open sauce works, it develops over time according to needs, not based on boardroom needs, monetization-focused panel research, and constant UI changes just for the sake of it.

And there are still the basically provided options for even any deep ricing needs if you want to do so.

Luigi surrealism

Yes, Framework!

It’s great, works perfectly, and you support something (principals, ways) worth supporting!
Something what won’t lead to/support further enshitification of all the things.
(And we might even get usable RISC–V laptops fairly soon - to even further ditch megacorps.)

We underfund our heroes, don’t we?

(Also that monitors model name in the thumbnail “UHD 4K 2K” :D

Yeah, thats almost 150% more than my (theoretical) bandwidth at home (Gbps but I live alone & just don’t want to pay much), and that is just assuming constant workload (peaks must be massive).

This is indeed considerate, yet hopefully solvable. It certainly is from the link perspective.

Ohh, for ez donations too!

Yeah, uble that centre of commerce!

Wait, is this within unix surrealism universe?

Anyways, my trusty usb cable wired to a 9" nail in my forehead can interact and even fix most drivers.

Tumbleweed (common)

Just a weed, a rolling shrubbery, non-evil.

My grandparents (now 90+) didn’t care much when I would change their distro, they are currently on Tumbleweed (just bcs thats what I decided to run on everyones computer I’m asked to maintain).

I would keep their general experience about the same for their use case (same desktop/desktop dock shortcuts, same browser ofc).

But yeah, Fedora (def Silverblue) or wherever you are familiar with.
(Lol, I never actually tried Mint myself, but that too - like a modern Ubuntu alternative)

I’ve seen (walked by) less pleasant cubicles.

Imagine using you mouser to click on all the things, like a pleb.

Mice are for fps.

/s
(well, only like 62% sarcasm tbh)