Stares nervously at waybar’s memory usage
It’s nowhere near the electron level, but we have bloat here as well. 62 megs to show a plain line of text, 5mb to append text to a file, 20mb to query dns, another 20 to reconnect to wifi, etc, and it adds up. I used to host sites on 32mb ram, play 3d games on 64mb ram, now even fitting just a bare terminal system on 128mb cloud slice is problematic.
sen@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Linux is forbidden in California? America’s a weird fuckin place.
Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
No, it’s not forbidden. No idea what that commenter is talking about.
squron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I suspect they are talking about the new California law that says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup. Planned to go into effect Jan 2027.
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 3 weeks ago
Yup
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s the age check thing that make things weird in foss
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 3 weeks ago
Age verification bill is approved in California https://www.techradar.com/computing/software/californias-age-verification-law-is-proving-controversial-heres-what-you-need-to-know-and-why-some-linux-distros-are-in-the-firing-line
So yes basically the end result will be, Microsoft and Apple will implement age verification (aka ID check) on Os level. And Linux will not, meaning the state will prohibit the use of any Linux distribution that is not following their law.
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 3 weeks ago
not sure why people dumb down.. if you don't like it, go to your representative if you are living in the US.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
It’s a free country