Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control

Alan wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

On 2025-03-24 19:54, Joel wrote:

Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
 

    I
have used a hair of swap, with 32 GB, it happens after a while of
running the computer and using things that use RAM.

So show it.

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Why?  What do I need to prove I'm telling you the truth about such a
simple matter?

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Because it's easy, and if you could show it, you would.
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Not showing it makes you look like a liar.

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Do you think my collection of concurrently running apps would not use
any RAM, or something?

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I think you could show us...
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...if you didn't have something to hide.

 
https://i.imgur.com/bNZVr8U.png

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You've just shown that you DO NOT need 32GB of RAM...
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(and that Linux isn't smart enough to count RAM in base-2).

:-D

That's not "Linux", that's just one GUI tool to measure RAM. For example,
from "man free":

    free [options]

    OPTIONS
       -b, --bytes
              Display the amount of memory in bytes.
       -k, --kibi
              Display the amount of memory in kibibytes.  This is the default.
       -m, --mebi
              Display the amount of memory in mebibytes.
       -g, --gibi
              Display the amount of memory in gibibytes.

       --tebi Display the amount of memory in tebibytes.
       --pebi Display the amount of memory in pebibytes.
       --kilo Display the amount of memory in kilobytes. Implies --si.
       --mega Display the amount of memory in megabytes. Implies --si.
       --giga Display the amount of memory in gigabytes. Implies --si.
       --tera Display the amount of memory in terabytes. Implies --si.
       --peta Display the amount of memory in petabytes. Implies --si.
       -h, --human
              Show all output fields automatically scaled to shortest three digit
              unit and display the units of print out.  Following units are used.

                B = bytes
                Ki = kibibyte
                Mi = mebibyte
                Gi = gibibyte
                Ti = tebibyte
                Pi = pebibyte

The "top" command (to show memory usage by process) has similar options.

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