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~ $ uname -srm
OpenBSD 7.8 amd64
~ $ sysctl -n hw.physmem |awk '{print $1/1024**3, " GiB"}'
3.72584 GiB
~ $ sysctl -n hw.physmem |awk '{print $1/1000**3, " GB"}'
4.00059 GB
~ $ ps wwaux |head -1
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
~ $ ps wwaux |awk '$0~/firefox/ {t+=$6}; END {print t/1024, "MiB"}'
972.234 MiB
~ $
P.S., I forgot to mention that this is with a fresh run of firefox with only a single blank tab. XD
Me lately
Amin, minor deity of the legume realm~] vnstat -d 2
wlp166s0 / daily
day rx | tx | total | avg. rate
------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
2026-01-10 451.93 MiB | 37.61 MiB | 489.54 MiB | 47.53 kbit/s
2026-01-11 671.43 MiB | 40.28 MiB | 711.71 MiB | 69.10 kbit/s
Doing pretty good at minimizing network bandwidth usage.
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But... I was talking about RAM usage?
Don't use rc.local. It has been obsolete since 1983. #FreeBSD has actually discontinued it twice in its history.
FreeBSD has had Mewburn rc for most of this century. It's what #NetBSD uses and #OpenBSD has a similar but NIH system. At minimum, use Mewburn rc scripts.
http://jdebp.info/FGA/rc.local-is-history.html
The rc(8) manual page has an example script. There's tutorial doco as well.
Have you priced it in the past six months? XD
Don't be silly, raccoons get their computer parts from garbage bins
Well, it's both about bloated web. 😄
Ironic that some of the fediverse servers (*key) are some of the heaviest websites I ever visit.
Downright unpleasant, man.
It happens when someone posts a link to a toot and I'm on the command line.
I'll probably just use my tootlookup function instead from now on, since those JS-heavy fedi servers are such a pain.
This is why I love SSGs.
I haven't even done anything to try to stop bots from scraping my site. There's so little there for them to get. 😆
I'm trying to divest my meagre savings from the AI crap as much as possible, but what can you do when the S&P itself is all in on the slop? :(
@rl_dane @sotolf @amin That would be the problem. And by the time I, a mere person who doesn't live in the stock world, knows that things are crashing, it's too late for me to do anything. It's all a gamble and a wrong choice means I don't have savings for retirement. Plus, I have a few accounts (my dad's death which has to be closed in X years) that doesn't have the lifespan to "wait it out" as much as my personal retirement does.
I still remember the day my cubical mate at Lucent announced that he and his wife lost $500k in retirement in a single day.
@rl_dane @sotolf @amin Kind of leads to the "something is wrong when":
they want you to start coding with "assistance" from an LLM: they're desperately hoping to be able to lay you off
And they want you to train your (one million virtual monkeys banging away at typewriters) replacement.
I have zero respect for people who willingly train A.I., knowing that they're just going to get fired at the end of it.
> * A "developer" is getting an overview of the application but doesn't ask technical questions: I'm getting a new manager
Can you break this one down for me?
@rl_dane @sotolf @amin Three times now, my manager (at the time) has brought on a "new developer" and I'm asked to give an introduction to the system. It usually takes about 3-5 days. In all three cases, they didn't really ask any in-depth questions and were just listening.
And then about 2-3 weeks later, it was announced that the "new developer" is now my manager and my current one has left.
What the heck. Why would they even do that?
Mushroom Management
Keep them in the dark and feed them shit.
I've annoyed more than a few person by going "so, when's your last day?" and they sometimes start answering before they realize I'm not supposed to know.
Most people are not good at knowledge compartmentalization. (Apparently, my brother and I are good at it though.)
2001-2 all over again. :(
Eh, I think there's a case for buying a new pixel if you really need the best camera, or if you have major trust issues buying a used phone, but in any case, only if you're going to run a FOSS OS on it.
In my case, my most recent phone was new, but it was also last year's model, so a little discounted. Also, I was in a hurry, because my old phone died in the swimming pool. XD
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