Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: vallor Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Computing chops (was: Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control) Date: 28 Mar 2025 04:48:04 GMT Lines: 74 Message-ID: References: <38ubuj1lcp0ftpkbt3rbgl6pq42s6f9m5c@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 5Ns6bTPd/BS52Sw6v6mu/gntJIV1ty8YXk5RZrrw34HrLWysSw Cancel-Lock: sha1:/oFCP2+JICidzcm5ODgMC1AmvT4= sha256:zG9qoqq57uVCir1b0+B8rjOE4ZyCsE82/gBFibeKyEc= X-Face: +McU)#<-H?9lTb(Th!zR`EpVrp<0)1p5CmPu.kOscy8LRp_\u`:tW;dxPo./(fCl CaKku`)]}.V/"6rISCIDP` User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Hmm4; 21cd653e; Linux-6.14.0) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:688283 On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 22:57:50 -0400, Joel wrote in : > vallor wrote: >>On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 22:16:06 -0400, Joel wrote in >>: >>> pothead wrote: >>>>On 2025-03-28, Joel wrote: >>>>> pothead wrote: >>>>>>On 2025-03-27, Joel wrote: >>>>>>> CrudeSausage wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>Realistically, Joel would be fine using a Celeron with no more >>>>>>>>than 8GB of RAM. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Ridiculous, that would function more or less, but not very *well*. >>>>>>> >>>>>>Some people should not be allowed anywhere near a computer. >>>>>>You are one of them. >>>>> >>>>> That's just spew, I'm a fairly accomplished computer user, you >>>>> aren't better than me, you aren't so great. You're just a leftover >>>>> from times past, which is why you make such idiotic political >>>>> statements. You're an emotional thinker. >>>>> >>>>Sugar, I was using computers before you were able to poop in your >>>>diaper. >>>>I started out feeding punched cards into an IBM 3505/3525 card >>>>reader/punch. >>>> >>>>You consider yourself an accomplished computer user? >>>>Like snit you have no clue. >>> >>> I would absolutely compete with you, I'm perhaps younger but I'm not >>> that young, I have a long history with computer use. You're not >>> better than me. You're just a relic, in truth. >> >>Now now, let's not devolve into a pissing contest/cat fight/whatever >>this is turning into. >> >>While pothead's politics are atrocious, they do know a thing or two >>about computers. You, I'm not so sure about -- after all, you think >>you're Jesus. > > > What does my identity have to do with what I know about computers? I'm > as good as the next computer nerd, we're all skilled. > > >>Meanwhile: what was the last large software project either of you >>compiled? >> >>ObLinux: >> >>For me, it was Pan, preceded by a few minutes by Linux 6.14. >> >>(ng snecked) > > > I just use Linux effectively, I don't have to compile things from source > as a general rule. Wellugh, okay. I hate to say it, but I don't think you _need_ 32GB of RAM -- you just have it because RAM was cheap and it made sense to buy matched RAM. My number-crunching colo server that I bought for HA experiments has 32GB. -- -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti OS: Linux 6.14.0 Release: Mint 22.1 Mem: 258G "Help beautify our dumps. Throw away something pretty."