curious. im running all regular gui software and i usually only go over 8gb when im pushing it harder. the only time i do consistently is while gaming and even then im always below 16gb.

what distro are you running? do you have KSM enabled?

what do you use it for to be filling 8gb on linux?

its great on linux (regular distro, not particularly lightweight) and reasonable on windows 10 for me.

unless you are pushing too many tabs and/or many heavy programs

im forced to use it at work and holy shit. 11 is so heavy for no reason, 8gb of ram is not remotely enough anymore, even if you yank out some of the garbage. theres no apparent change in functionality to justify it.

the ssd smart says its almost at its end, and i suspect its because its constantly swapping. paging file is always full, unless i set it to something big like 8+ gb

and its actually pretty sad that he died of old age after a long comfy life

i usually advocate for a more restrictive license for commercial use, to avoid openssl type situations. where huge corpos will take it, use it to build big infrastructure without compensating the creator at all, and not even bothering to help with maintenance.

canonical and libreoffice are examples of companies that do commercial support contracts. proxmox is an example of free for personal use, but paid for businesses.

im talking about licensing and business models, by giving a few examples of how devs can be paid while being free and open for users, but paid somehow for companies. and how that doesnt necessarily mean it has to be closed.

is ubuntu not open source then? or libreoffice?

if so, sure.

i think you misunderstood it.

take a look at libreoffice, proxmox, pfsense, flexiwan, canonical, redhat if you want an example of this business model actually working, at different stages of success.

maybe don’t murder the employees trying to stop these mistakes?

redirect a bit more of it to the devs and you get a bigger and better ecosystem.

make it free for non-commercial use. this works even as a business model of sorts.

no one corporation can censor it or turn it into an altright cesspool.

every individual or company can have a federated instance if they please. lemmy is more akin to the old forums, which are a massive step forward.

not perfect; much better.

although i think my op was responding to another comment and i did a wrong.

nah, its a big step ahead of letting unelected billionaires control discourse, instead of an elected governing body.

even if you do, youd need an account

having another one of these in a cluster is not off the table, but for now size is a priority. its all backed up with another router to take over if needed.

so, socialism?

tankie to the rescue

you do if you want more than just a router

not the same class of device though

topton is one of the more “trusted” brands in there. you can get anything from a small dual core celeron to a mobile i7, with two ddr5 slots, m.2 slots, mpcie slots, sata slots… you name it.

it can be quite a punch on a tiny box and it is a very practical all-in-one device, but it does need some tinkering repasting and adjusting out of the box. mine in particular has issues around wol and absolutely needed cooling fans and better thermal paste. ymmv.

here is a popular one.

here is some discussion about these boxes with varying levels of success in using it, its quite good once the kinks are worked out.

this form factor is definetly something if you want a homelab without the hassle, pricetag, size, noise, energy consumption… you can virtualize everything in it if you get one big enough.