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    RAM??? Let use GDrive as swap (lemm.ee)
    submitted 9 months ago by sag@lemm.ee to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] tourist@lemmy.world 178 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

    ITT:

    [–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 27 points 9 months ago

    The internet is srs bzns.

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    [–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 141 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I prefer to put my swap partition on CD-RW.

    [–] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 79 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    That way you'll know you've run out of physical memory when the cd-rom starts spinning up.

    [–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 54 points 9 months ago

    I hate that I kind of like this point...

    [–] marcos@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Linux doesn't wait for you to be out of memory to swap-out pages.

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    [–] Hubi@feddit.de 34 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I wonder if anyone has actually managed to do this

    [–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 49 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    someone put swap on google drive

    [–] drew_belloc@programming.dev 36 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Android studio was asking for more ram, what else would i do?

    [–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 9 months ago

    Use dropbox like any pleb would

    [–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man8/mount.davfs.8.html mount cloud memory as folder and put swapfile on it

    [–] sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Swap on S3. That's brutal

    [–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

    Download more ram became possible with one simple trick)

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    [–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago

    Personally enjoy my swap on an iPod

    [–] Granixo@feddit.cl 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    I think you meant DVD-RAM.

    [–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Sup, that would actually be possible.

    [–] hglman@lemmy.ml 24 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Anything can be ram if you wait long enough

    [–] moody@lemmings.world 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I use my whiteboard for swap.

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    [–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 125 points 9 months ago (20 children)

    Yeah, never had a problem with incompatible hardware on Linux.

    No siree, not a once!

    [–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 57 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Such an up and down though. I have an ancient epson scanner that cannot be used on modern windows, but I just installed the driver on linux and everything has been amazing.

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    [–] ExLisper@linux.community 48 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Did you ever had to buy a new laptop because Linux stopped supporting the current one?

    [–] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

    I've had the reverse. I started using arch because debian didn't have my wifi driver yet.

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    [–] camelbeard@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    No but I am looking for a new laptop and this time I'll definitely spent more time checking Linux compatibility.

    My previous thinkpad worked fine out of the box, but my current laptop is an HP Omen, that I mostly selected for the price to performance ratio. But I immediately learned that Linux compatibility sucked. Like not being able to boot an Ubuntu usb drive (without messing with the boot parameters).

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    [–] toddestan@lemm.ee 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    I did the opposite. After one of the big updates, Windows 10 decided it was no longer going to work with the Vista-era drivers for an old Core 2 Duo laptop. To be fair to Microsoft, was I pretty impressed when I initially installed Windows 10 and it accepted those ancient drivers without any complaints on a laptop that was 10 years old at that time.

    So I instead installed Manjaro and everything worked just fine.

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    [–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

    This is not a problem with Linux, this is a problem with hardware manufacturers not making drivers for Linux.

    Which is understandable, honestly. Making drivers is surely not an easy task. Targeting Windows covers the 80/20 rule.

    [–] xX_fnord_Xx@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    I just broke out into a cold sweat remembering trying to get wifi to function on my netbook back in 2k8.

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    [–] THEMASTERMIND@feddit.ch 80 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    That fucking wolfs face never fails to make me laugh

    [–] NotMelon@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Please don't fuck wolfs face

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    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 45 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Not true. For modern Linux you need a processor with a memory controller and 8mb of ram. If also need to be a processor from the 21 century.

    [–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 64 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)
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    [–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 24 points 9 months ago

    At least pentiums are still supported. Who knows what all those IBM Thinkpad users are capable of if they weren't distracted.

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    [–] squid_slime@lemmy.world 38 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Would it be possible to forgo ram for just swap?

    [–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 45 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    No it is not possible. For a more detailed explanation read here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/928308/is-it-possible-to-use-ubuntu-without-ram-at-all

    [–] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.ml 16 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    But it's possible with almost zero ram, like 32mb, but it'll be a very slow experience

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    [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 27 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    optional CPU?

    [–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 59 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Well, there are people running Linux in all manner of ways, like VRChat shaders.

    [–] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 9 months ago

    Wow, now that is literally insane and super awesome at the same time lol

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    [–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Well, you can run Linux on an FPGA...

    [–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 24 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    You can install windows in a brick wall.

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    [–] Robin@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    That's just a CPU with extra steps

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    [–] Pantherina@feddit.de 23 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Btw. If you disable the Intel ME, TPM is nonfunctional.

    Yay!

    [–] grubders@sopuli.xyz 13 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    you can disable intel ME?

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    [–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    i remember when i could run windows 3.1 on a potato

    [–] the_third@feddit.de 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Eh, 3.1 required at least protected mode, so, a 80286.

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    [–] cooopsspace@infosec.pub 12 points 9 months ago

    A processor and ram is merely "recommended specs"

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