4GB is fine on a proper operating system. I’d still be using my 2011 mba with debian if it wasn’t for the fan noise.

If you genuinely need more, good for you buy something more powerful. Most folks just use web browsers, and if you stay out of the chromium ecosystem those tend to be relatively lightweight in my experience.

I’m also of the opinion we should abandon the modern web and shift back to gopher but that’s just like, my opinion, man

I moved to half caff for a few weeks, then to decaf. I still have a cup of coffee every morning as part of my routine. The headaches were brutal on both changes, and I regret not taking longer to do so.

It began when I noticed caffeine pouches being sold at a gas station. Not pills, which feel like a drug, pouches, just like the Zyn pouches. The difference is caffeine can be sold to minors. I realized when I saw them that caffeine is simply another insidious drug being peddled to the masses to keep us locked in addictions, feeding the machine with our hard earned money.

You do not need the stimulant. You do not need the pacifier. You will not enjoy going without, until you learn how much better you feel without.

I come from a taker culture. I’m doing my best to unlearn and be a leaver. It starts (to me) with the recognition that the way I have been living is a way uncooperative with nature, and incompatible with sustainability. I’ve been growing more spiritual, not to pacify myself but to take time to give thanks to the world for what it has given me. I drive less than I used to, opting to cycle or walk most of the time.

I think it’s safe to say I’m still a taker (I mean hell I live on stolen Diné land), but I’m doing my best to learn to not be. As soon as I can, I plan to leave this place, it can’t sustain a population like this and I can’t in good conscience contribute to it’s destruction.

Yeah, always high. I quit weed and caffeine at the same time. Quit alcohol 7 months ago. Nicotine a year ago. I’m completely sober for the first time in 13 years as of a few months ago. It wasn’t the code’s fault. It was depression. TBH the coding was a way to gain some control over my life. It gave me reasons to dive deeper into my addictions though.

I used to write a ton of code while caffeinated.

Now I write less, better code since quitting caffeine.

There was a brief period where I was incapable of doing anything at all between the state of high caffeination and no caffeination.

If ape fling poo in city, ape get arrested too. To free one’s mind from the shackles of society, does not free them from the consequence of interacting with it.

I’d recommend ddrescue over dd for optical media backups only because if you’ve got bad blocks it will try them again at a different speed/angle

Makes me think of how I recently read Ishmael and it literally changed my life. I understand now. I am ape. Do as ape do.

There’s like, a lot more than that, but that was my biggest takeaway (which would probably make the author very sad given what the book was actually about)

None of my GPUs have more than one HDMI port, so I set up nccl and tossed in a spare GPU.

Sometimes the solution is to “upgrade” with old hardware that’s been obsoleted for a few years.

(I’m so glad I kept that gtx1650 in my dev board cabinet)

As far as I can tell that’s not possible on FreeBSD. The vm.swappiness parameter doesn’t exist there.

I often use FreeBSD on a system with 2 gigs of ram. I WISH swap was useful. OOM killer is so overzealous the thing just kills whatever before even touching swap.

Like two or three weeks for most tasks. I still check the manual sometimes, it’s built in :)

Check out vimtutor if you wanna learn it fast

https://vimschool.netlify.app/introduction/vimtutor/

I oft reference the wikibooks page as well https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Vim

I’m a vim stan. I love my vim. I still end up installing nano on all my machines. It’s honestly not even for me anymore, it’s for anyone else who happens to use it. Vim is great but it’s got a learning curve.

Often times I’ll just use vi, since it’s always there.