Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control

On 2025-03-24 19:28, Joel wrote:

pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:

On 2025-03-25, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:

On 2025-03-24 16:13, Joel wrote:

Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
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Take a look at my Cinnamon taskbar:  https://i.imgur.com/yPGDm6a.png

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So nothing a Mac Mini with a base configuration couldn't easily handle.

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Incorrect, I use beyond 16 GB RAM and even puke out a little over 32
at times having these tiny uses of swap.

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Funny you won't show it, huh?

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I'm including the use of cache in overall RAM use, the use of swap
when all 32 GB is used up to demonstrate that I really need the
resources I've provided my system.

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And you STILL won't show it.

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swapon -s
free -m
top
Are just a couple of methods.
There are more.

  But there's a larger point here, that Alan can't perceive, which is
that I'm not subject to Apple's ridiculous prices for hardware, I paid
a little over a hundred in 2021 for a 1 TB NVMe SSD, something still
to covet in an Apple machine in 2025.  Upgrading to 32 GB RAM,
installing the WiFi adapter and second SSD, even my video card, were
all inexpensive upgrades.  My computer rocks, because I made it, and
that includes installing Linux, instead of being hand-held by Apple.
 

And now you're trying to dodge the subject.
You claimed you NEEDED these high specs...
...but you won't show that it's actually so.