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- Comment on What are the memory usage of various types of processes? 3 days ago:
I have a number of things running in the background after booting, so here’s some numbers for you:
- Steam: 1.1GiB
- Firefox: 1 GiB
- Discord: 500-600 MiB
- SchildiChat (Matrix Client): 300 MiB
- KeePassXC: 180 MiB
- KDE’s System Monitor (which I am using to get these values): 140 MiB
In addition to that, there’s always a number of systems services, most of which use a negligible amount of memory, but here’s some I’m just picking out because I recognize what they do:
- plasmashell (KDE Plasma): 380 MiB
- kwin_wayland (also KDE Plasma): 70 MiB
- Syncthing: 80 MiB
- kdeconnectd: 30 MiB
- pipewire: 7.5 MiB (though there are some other processes associated with pipewire in addition to the main one)
- systemd-logind: 1.8 MiB
- systemd: 3.7 MiB
- cupsd: 2 MiB
- XWayland: 45 MiB
- Xorg: 40 MiB
Of course, these are just a snapshot of the systems state, and can only really give you a very rough idea of how much memory something might use at one point in time.
If you want to make your board game more complicated (probably not, but I like the idea, so I’m just throwing it in here), you could use it as an opportunity to teach virtual memory, segmentation, paging and internal vs external fragmentation. Maybe players get certain processes with memory requirements and have to fit them into their own main memory, and whoever can fit the most processes wins, or whoever cannot allocate memory for a new process looses. (I’m just writing down what’s coming out of my head, I don’t want to hijack your game idea, sorry.)
- Comment on Window alignment 5 weeks ago:
That sounds pretty plausible, but I’m not sure.
The windows are only very slightly off center, inconsistent, and even the ones above the clock are as well (although the clock mechanism could extend both up and down).
But I also don’t have any better explanation.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 22 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
amateur radio was illegal to encrypt
Amateur radio is still illegal to encrypt (with some exceptions for controlling satelites), because private communication isn’t the point of amateur radio.
Besides, (in most countries) there are some topics that are illegal to talk over amateur radio about, mainly stuff like politics and religion. You’re also not allowed to offer telecommunication services (i.e. pass messages on for others). Enforcing those sorts of laws would be impossible with encryption.
But to answer your question: I think we probably wouldn’t have had an internet. Authoritarian regimes thrive on stability and maintaining the status quo, I think someone high up would have quickly decided that developing that sort of tech is too risky.
