i know the difference. this was active, in-use memory. the half-dozen dell items uninstalled and their many, many processes, used that much.

I don’t have any more drives to test this out

you have a drive from a budget-tier vendor. it could very easily a glitchy drive. the only way to know is to replace it with something else.

RARs might have been originally sourced from ‘elsewhere’, that place where the first rule is to not talk about it.

more input!

i use some of those low power soc laptops, running with lid closed (heat is basically a non-issue), for pihole, white noise, and a few other ‘little’ things. one of 'em is even running stuff in VMs (the rest are debian-based dietpi).

and all the oem bundleware. i knocked-down fresh boot idle active ram usage from 5.5gb to 3.5gb on a new dell desktop just by uninstalling anything that had ‘dell’ in the name.

that a ryzen 2200g with 16gb ram, nvme, and usb-c is ‘unsupported’ is total bullshit. i just pulled one from service. meanwhile, i just ‘upgraded’ a 10th gen celeron desktop, and some even-worse gemini lake laptops, all with hdd (except one with a massive 64gb emmc chip) to 11.

(that ryzen is now rocking silverblue and looking for a new forever home)

it pretty much depends on what their distribution agreements have in them–there could be something in there that requires monthly or longer terms for subscribers. if there isn’t, there sure af will be from now on for streaming services carrying ‘cable’ channels

it’s not happening ‘after’. ytdlp is likely downloading a higher quality file than what the browser or app is receiving for streaming.

cinnamint is great. i think you may have already found what to put on the ‘main pc’.

if you’re at all interested in ‘atomic’ variants, kinoite is what is running a couple of kde desktops here.

either one meets or exceeds the requirements you posted for the game.

note that if you’re able to shop in person at microcenter, many more options are available, including their own brand of prebuilts (powerspec) and custom-builds assembled in-store.

they swarm around the entrances of the building here this time every year

the only grocery around me that had one took it out when they quit selling coffee that way, a few months into covid.

did you just drop the full index into the config, like the ‘how to use’ image shows in the repo’s ‘readme’? take that out, it’s all 10,000+ ‘channels’. go into the repo’s ‘streams’ directory and find one or a few for your country and add those instead (load the ‘raw’ url for each in the browser, then copy the resulting address from your browser address bar into the config).

“hey cortana, slo-mo!”

i always have, even as a grade school kid–back then the bus rides to and from school were so long, i saw the bus driver more on school days than my family.

it’s the main reason i prefer ANSI keyboards.

somewhere off in the distance i hear a familiar jingle: ‘3 billion strong… and growing’

many of those chrome ‘users’ got there after clicking on one of google’s many somewhat misleading ‘advertisements’ or ‘notices’ or ‘warnings’

it’s what respondents ‘believe’. and most of them will believe that despite the actual odds being so far against them that they’ve already got their non-refundable one-way reservations for the bad place.