Re: 🏳️‍🌈Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control🏳️‍🌈

On Sun, 06 Apr 2025 03:18:35 +0000, 🌈💐🌻🌺🌹🌻💐🌷🌺🌈Jen🌈💐🌻🌺🌹🌻💐
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On 6 Apr 2025 01:26:57 GMT, LO AND BEHOLD; vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
determined that the following was of great importance to vallor
<vallor@cultnix.org> and subsequently decided to freely share it with us
in <m5e3j1F6lroU1@mid.individual.net>:
 
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Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote in =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
<4n33vjlr9kj9922n8ni24tuignun80b0ub@4ax.com>:
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=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Chris
Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
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=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Alan wrote this post while blinking in
Morse code:
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Linux isn't smart enough to count RAM in base-2).
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=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= :-D That's not "Linux", that's just one
GUI tool to measure RAM. For =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
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example, from "man free":    free [options]    OPTIONS       -b,
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=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= --bytes              Display the amount
of memory in bytes.       -k, =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= --kibi
             Display the amount of memory in kibibytes.  This is
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=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= the              default.       -m,
--mebi              Display the =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
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of memory in mebibytes.       -g, --gibi              Display
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=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= the amount of memory in gibibytes.    
 --tebi Display the amount of =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
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in tebibytes.       --pebi Display the amount of memory in
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=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= pebibytes.       --kilo Display the
amount of memory in kilobytes. =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
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Implies --si.       --mega Display the amount of memory in megabytes.
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=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Implies --si.       --giga Display the
amount of memory in gigabytes. =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
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Implies --si.       --tera Display the amount of memory in terabytes.
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amount of memory in petabytes. =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
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Implies --si.       -h, --human              Show all output fields
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      three digit unit and =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
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display the units of print out.              Following units are used.
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=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=               B = bytes Ki = kibibyte
Mi = mebibyte Gi = gibibyte Ti = =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
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       tebibyte Pi = pebibyte The "top" command (to show memory
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=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= usage by process) has similar options.
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Alan can just let Apple think for him, no need to explain, zzz.
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=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Mac:~ vallor$ uname -a Darwin Mac
24.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.3.0:
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root:xnu-11215.81.4~3/RELEASE_ARM64_T6020
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= arm64 Mac:~ vallor$ free -bash: free:
command not found =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Huhu, okay.  How do you do that on a
Mac?
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is there /proc/meminfo ?

Alas, Macs don't have /proc.

Would be nice if they did, though.

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