After a recent debate I had in a comment section about whether or not 2 gigs of RAM was enough for a modern workload, I started customizing to make it happen.
In my first screenshot (second in post body) you can see my specs in a neofetch and cpufetch output. I’m running a custom Kernel to bring my RAM usage as low as humanly possible while still maintaining support for all my hardware, I am on round 1 of kernel minimizing, only things I was 100% sure i didnt need have been removed. Round 2 will be removing things I might need but not frequently, I will be leaving a second kernel installed to access them.
GTK themes are listed because I have lxqt installed, I try my best not to use it though.
In my second screenshot (first in post body) you can see from left to right, top to bottom:
- Links with a DDG search
- offpunk browsing a gemlog
- turbo with a sample of my writing (it isn’t good, I don’t pretend to be a writer)
- a neofetch output
- discordo, called by a shell script that runs it with my bot token (self bots are against discord’s TOS, do not make them, or do idgaf its your account)
I am using the Ultima theme (https://github.com/egorlem/ultima.zsh-theme.git) for Oh-My-Zsh
Terminal frontend is Sakura but I used Terminator to customize my terminal colors as Sakura only allows you to change your Background and Foreground colors.
Missed opportunity to say dead™ inside
or potato™ inside
I remember when 2 gigs of ram was an insane amount of memory
my first official job after high school was assistant to the school’s systems administrator and i remember marveling that i regularly held thousands of dollars worth of ram in my hand; all 1 gig of it. lol
it was back in the 90’s and ram was EXPENSIVE back then.
My first laptop had 256 MB and ran fine on XP. Idk what happened to operating systems but this shit is getting out of hand.
It’s mostly the browser/electron
Yes, this is actually why my first angle of attack was finding text only browsers!
Links for HTTP(s), Offpunk for Gopher and Gemini (I think it does finger too but I don’t know any sites that use the finger protocol)
You can checkout the repo awesome-cli for nice terminal applications. Nice functionality with very less overhead.
![[i3] Stretching 2 Gigs of RAM as far as they will possibly go.](https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.dbzer0.com%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F822e2df1-1c64-443f-875f-afdd70bed286.webp){kind=link}