@topperharlie@lemmy.world

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• can everyone please stop using this meme? For one is probably old enough to drink, but also… I wish I was over it by now… just stop torturing me… c’mon man…

  on Don't mind me. Keep enjoying your OS. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 3d ago

• yep it was HDD, but with the low amount of times I have any OOM issue, I’m way more worried about NVMe flash burning than a random process being killed once every blue moon.

  In fact I didn’t mention, but since the advent of flash drives what I’ve done is trying to locate heavy disk writing apps and find alternatives for them, amid disabling many logs.

  For swap, it hunts me to think some automatic process I don’t have control over will burn those sweet erase cycles without me noticing just because someone programmed it poorly. I’m way more happy knowing I have some control over it.

  on Stop Doing Swap Partitions in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026

• Everyone defending swap like crazy in the comments… so let me give a counter argument specifically for desktop:

  Many years ago I stopped using swap on all my computers (I exclusively use linux) and the reason is: every time anything regarding interactivity went to swap, my system would freeze and literally become unusable for a really long time until I killed something. Since I got tired if that behaviour I decided I prefer for random shit to die but my computer still be usable.

  It wasn’t very often, but I don’t get OOM killer often either (as in I don’t remember the last time it happened and I use linux every day for both work and fun), and the freezing situation was way more annoying, to the point I sometimes ended up cold switching off the computer. I’m surprised on how many people run out of memory constantly. I guess you all are just using linux for servers and have crazy processing of infinite data…

  on Stop Doing Swap Partitions in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026

• Doing a game about a border wall using tetris, where every time you do a good row it disappears, is very MAGA coded, NGL…

  Also, don’t let this distract you that Trump has raped little kids.

  on White House Launches Arcade.Gov, a Minigame Site Where You Catch Immigrants, Build a Tetris Border Wall, and 'Fill Your Kids' Trump Accounts' With Bitcoin in c/games@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026

• I mean, back in my days (👴) people sent a photo pasted into a word document, so things haven’t change that much…

  on New compression technique in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 3 Sep 2026