of course it is. forced 2fa BY SMS OF ALL THINGS is one of the stupidest ideas

they are both rich as fuck and both help their billionaire friends scam people out of their insurance money.

planned obsolescence wastes precious resources and massively contributes to climate change and our enslavement through consumption. its absolutely in my top 10

thats one of the main regards in which they can be compared as similar

id rather people focus on the lessons learned.

as long as this puts fear back into the burgeoise i aint complaining too much though.

curious. im running all regular gui software and i usually only go over 8gb when im pushing it harder. the only time i do consistently is while gaming and even then im always below 16gb.

what distro are you running? do you have KSM enabled?

what do you use it for to be filling 8gb on linux?

its great on linux (regular distro, not particularly lightweight) and reasonable on windows 10 for me.

unless you are pushing too many tabs and/or many heavy programs

im forced to use it at work and holy shit. 11 is so heavy for no reason, 8gb of ram is not remotely enough anymore, even if you yank out some of the garbage. theres no apparent change in functionality to justify it.

the ssd smart says its almost at its end, and i suspect its because its constantly swapping. paging file is always full, unless i set it to something big like 8+ gb

decent game, yeah

they aint blocking linux users either.

remember that r/mademesmile debacle?

or them countless threads that are all reposted comment by comment by different accounts.

having another one of these in a cluster is not off the table, but for now size is a priority. its all backed up with another router to take over if needed.

so, socialism?

you do if you want more than just a router

not the same class of device though

topton is one of the more “trusted” brands in there. you can get anything from a small dual core celeron to a mobile i7, with two ddr5 slots, m.2 slots, mpcie slots, sata slots… you name it.

it can be quite a punch on a tiny box and it is a very practical all-in-one device, but it does need some tinkering repasting and adjusting out of the box. mine in particular has issues around wol and absolutely needed cooling fans and better thermal paste. ymmv.

here is a popular one.

here is some discussion about these boxes with varying levels of success in using it, its quite good once the kinks are worked out.

this form factor is definetly something if you want a homelab without the hassle, pricetag, size, noise, energy consumption… you can virtualize everything in it if you get one big enough.

i dislike the relative lack of repairability and expandability too.

processing power is more than adequate, and it comes in a tiny practical box, this is my priority atm.

so it can also be my wifi ap, im using virtualized openwrt to make it happen.

the ap i was using is now doing its duty as an extender while the beefier one does firewall, wifi, server, storage you name it…

just got it from aliexpress. though any hardware or mini pc will do, really.

if you want something like this but branded, look into protectli, they make similar devices.

no need to be a programmer to do it!