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• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  squeezing every last drop of resource form tired old hardware

  This is such a myth. 99% of the time your hardware is doing there doing nothing. Even when running “bloated” services.

  Nextcloud, for example, uses practically zero cpu and a few tens on mb when sitting around yet people avoid it for “bloat”.

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• MudMan@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I suppose it makes more sense the less you want to do and the older your hardware is. Even when repurposing old laptops and stuff like that I find the smallest apps I'd want to run were orders of magnitude more costly than any OS overhead. This was even true that one time I got lazy and started running stuff on an older Windows machine without reinstalling the OS, so I'm guessing anything Linux-side would be fine.

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