Gareth HalfacreeIt's #Hackster round-up time, and your five today starts with the DSTIKE-DA - a compact ESP32-powered Bluetooth speaker (3W, mono)... in a gumstick format. Yeah, with a USB Type-A connector on the end.
Then Canonical, with the announcement that #Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will need 6GB of RAM minimum - up from 4GB for previous versions.
Weirdly, this now gives Ubuntu a higher minimum RAM requirement than Windows 11, which will officially run on 4GB.
I mean, not *well*, but it's the official minimum.
Murdoc Addams 🧛🏻
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"Not well"
Ah, takes me back to my first copy of Windows 95. Min reqs called for a 386 with 4 mb ram. I had a 486 with 4 mb, so I thought I'd be fine. Took a whole day to install the thing. But once it was, it did work. I mean, it took 10 seconds just to load the Start menu, and programs? Those were often measured in minutes. (Basically everything was running off of the swap drive.) But boy was it fancy looking. It even came with free music video from Weezer. Ah those halcyon days...
"Not well"
Ah, takes me back to my first copy of Windows 95. Min reqs called for a 386 with 4 mb ram. I had a 486 with 4 mb, so I thought I'd be fine. Took a whole day to install the thing. But once it was, it did work. I mean, it took 10 seconds just to load the Start menu, and programs? Those were often measured in minutes. (Basically everything was running off of the swap drive.) But boy was it fancy looking. It even came with free music video from Weezer. Ah those halcyon days...
River City Random ☑️@murdoc @ghalfacree was the Weezer music video watchable on a 386 with 4 MB of RAM? I remember it was a little choppy even on my AMD-K6...
@rivercityrandom
Sorry, that I don't remember. All I remember is being amazed at how they were able to insert themselves so seamlessly into an episode of Happy Days.