i’m not even recommending 8gb laptops to most users anymore… especially not ones with soldered ram that are stuck with only that.
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adarza@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Ubuntu Linux raises minimum system memory requirements by 50% — requirements bumped to 6GB of RAM, previously raised from 1GB to 4GB in 2018English1·6 days ago
adarza@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Ubuntu Linux raises minimum system memory requirements by 50% — requirements bumped to 6GB of RAM, previously raised from 1GB to 4GB in 2018English1·6 days agoit won’t. ubuntu’s announcement pertains to the extra demands of gnome, their flagship release, and it’s default configuration.
mint doesn’t ship a gnome spin, and cinnamon, mate and xfce are lighter-weight… and mint is not dependent upon snaps, nor is it even configured oob with snap support enabled.
adarza@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Ubuntu Linux raises minimum system memory requirements by 50% — requirements bumped to 6GB of RAM, previously raised from 1GB to 4GB in 2018English2·6 days agolatest Gnome desktop, modern web browsers, and typical multitasking workflows
so use a lighter-weight de (xfce, lxqt, budgie), and don’t go crazy with brower tabs or open applications, and you’ll be ok… like you’re probably already doing now if you’ve got a ‘marginal’ pc.
adarza@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Ubuntu Linux raises minimum system memory requirements by 50% — requirements bumped to 6GB of RAM, previously raised from 1GB to 4GB in 2018English1·6 days agothat’s probably per ‘household’ not ‘per line’ or ‘per person’.
adarza@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft wants Edge to automatically open by default every time you turn on your Windows 11 PCEnglish1·6 days agoi’ve still got an ‘emachines’ here. granted, nothing inside is original anymore, except the optical with the curved silver bezel. has an am3 board in it now (originally a barton core on nvidia chipset). i keep it around because it has ide ports… and yes, i do use those. had to dig it out twice in the last month.
adarza@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft wants Edge to automatically open by default every time you turn on your Windows 11 PCEnglish3·6 days agothat’s a different thing. chromium edge has always had the ‘load at startup’ option (enabled by default, of course)… to make ‘loading’ it when you do run it, ‘faster’.
this new innovation will launch the actual browser window, too.
adarza@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft wants Edge to automatically open by default every time you turn on your Windows 11 PCEnglish6·6 days agoI only had 360kbit/s for a while
they still sell dsl that slow here… and of course the telephone company charges those people even more than they do in town for 20-60mbit dsl or 100-1000mbit fiber.
adarza@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft wants Edge to automatically open by default every time you turn on your Windows 11 PCEnglish5·6 days agothere’s a few projects for running windows in a container… winboat and winapps are a couple that come to mind. dunno if they’re ready for ‘prime time’ yet. interesting concept, though.
made me look over to the office door to see if it was the same as the one i’ve had up here for over twenty-five years…
adarza@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.zip•Visa is bringing AI to credit card charge disputesEnglish24·7 days agorisen 35% since 2019
so… since covid, then. how much of this ‘billions in avoidable losses’ were just left on people’s doorsteps?
adarza@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.zip•Your Antenna TV Shouldn’t Need the Internet — But Roku Made It SoEnglish1·7 days agolemme guess… you can’t rollback or reset and load the original oob firmware, either.
adarza@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•USDA warns about Walmart chicken nuggets contaminated with leadEnglish452·7 days agoYou ate them already. Sorry.
yup. several packages worth. no wonder they were closing them out at something like $2.00 a bag awhile back… they knew
my first install of debian was before it had names. my most recent was last tuesday. i’ve strayed for short stints, but debian is where it’s at. i do have a couple ‘others’ but they are special setups for specific things.
if you like the deb-based system but want to get away from canonical, trixie is ready to rescue you.
adarza@lemmy.cato Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•If you're fond of restoring 30-year-old PCs, but then you see some old PC parts being obliterated by scrappers just to get small pitiful pinches of gold.English1·10 days agothat’s where we take a lot of our junk, too… but we also buy from there when we can, instead of amazon.
adarza@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card salesEnglish5·10 days agowestern digital was the parent, they bought sandisk in 2016.
last year they spun-off the flash storage business back into a new entity (also) named sandisk, leaving western digital (‘wd’) with only the traditional hdd business.
the spin-off also included wd’s previous sd card line as well as their popular computer ssd products (which are being re-branded by the ‘new’ company).
adarza@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.ml•Copilot is now injecting ads into PR descriptionsEnglish7·10 days agosomeone with a corner office in redmond reminded someone else that shareholders expect to see an immediate return on their $100+ billion ‘investment’ in this shit.
the one baked into firefox downloads small specialized models and runs on your device.
hope you have your motherboard sourced already. lga1200 mini-itx gonna be a tough one to find reasonably priced, otherwise.
cachy is the current ‘flavour of the day’, apparently.
i still make a swap partition (inside the encrypted volume group). if it’s used, great–if not, no big deal, as ssd should keep some empty bits anyway.