I am not a robot. I promise.
So, by these sort of meme definitions, basically 90% of memes are diarrhea, sitting on the Drake meme, the Geordi LaForge meme, a Spongebob meme, the 5 year old girl standing in front of the burning house with the sinister look meme…
Fuck, by these strict standards on what a meme is supposed to be, well I guess basically all memes must be garbage to you folks. You must be really fun at parties…
Sad you can’t even get 3 seconds of a sad chuckle and just move on…
Practically all background meme images are some random garbage, well before the AI slop era. Meme images were generated by human slop Photoshop before AI was the big thing, so what really matters?
Not the background image, but the words posted on top of the image. And the words on OP’s meme are just as valid, even if you posted the same words on a Spongebob Squarepants meme image.
Practically every meme is based on a silly image from wherever. It’s the words that really count.
You can’t make a thread like this relevant to everyone, each operating system works differently.
Windows 10, you gotta cut out the bloatware and telemetry, and still probably install more RAM anyways.
Linux, you take advantage of fstab to arrange a tmpfs or ramfs filesystem for temporary files, internet cache, and even system log files if you really wanna cut down on unnecessary storage write cycles.
There’s no universal one size fits all answer here, it all depends on the operating system, especially these days…
Nope, phosphorous was the very first atomic element discovered, by boiling and refining human urine into a powder.
Not everything is AI slop, try doing some research on the origins of the periodic table of elements.
As much as people would like to give advice…
With that said, it would help to know what OS you’re running or planning to run, and post your question under a relevant operating system community.
The sad part is that children will never be able to see this meme…
I heard somewhere that zombies eat brains…
So, is Artificial Intelligence actually the zombies, coming after the children’s minds? 🤔
So, it’s been decades since I was a teenager, and AI chatbots weren’t even a thing. Hell, I didn’t even have the internet as a teenager, so maybe I’m totally out of the loop, but someone riddle me this?..
They’re age checking and gatekeeping social media, but not age checking and gatekeeping AI chatbots?
Do I have this about right, or am I missing something here?
It literally made my day to realize anyone out there is still interested in such things these days.
People like you keep my hope in humanity alive.
You’ve actually read this far?
Thank you for appreciating my words and the time it took to type them.
Sam’s Photofacts: https://repairfaq.org/
Edit: I am not Sam, this is just a treasure trove of information on how to troubleshoot and repair discreet electronics.
Sam Goldwasser is to me almost as important as Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman…
I long ago lost that monitor and related hardware over the sands of time, moving one place to another multiple times.
The benefit though was that I effectively quadrupled the number of pixels on screen from the common 1024x768 resolution of the time.
1024x2=2048, 768x2=1536
I was basically pioneering early extra high definition video output before it was even a thing.
The images themselves wouldn’t look any different, except smaller as each pixel was only 1/4 of original size, giving me a much larger visible pixel area for image editing.
It wouldn’t have helped gameplay much though, as I had to sacrifice framerate to accomplish that.
Edit: You definitely can’t do shit like that on modern LCDs, that category of overclocking is exclusive to old CRTs.
TL;DR - Much higher pixel resolution, at the cost of framerate.
It was officially rated for a max of 1280x1024, 50Hz progressive. The more common resolution of choice back then was 1024x768, 60Hz.
Well I wanted a much higher resolution than that, so by absolutely maxing out the horizontal output transistor frequency to 64KHz and doing some quick number crunching, I was able to make a custom display mode of 2048x1536, 25Hz interlaced.
Although the vertical refresh rate got both cut in half and also switched to interlaced, it still absolutely qualifies as overclocking, because the horizontal output transistor (HOT) is basically the most stressed out non high voltage component in any CRT monitor.
Running the HOT at the bleeding edge of the manufacturer’s frequency rating of 64KHz could and would indeed burn it out prematurely if run too long like that, especially without additional cooling, so I didn’t run it too damn long like that, but I just wanted to see if it was even possible.
The monitor itself was from 1994, so it was effectively all analog, no digital onscreen menus, no signal checking and no error message on the screen to say boohoo video mode not supported, the monitor just tuned itself to the signal and frequencies I calculated and arranged for it.
It did however have quite a few analog image transform buttons on its front panel though, for things like trapezoid and shear distortion, raster rotation, corner bowing, etc, lots of things most monitors from 1994 didn’t have, which meant the CRT yoke had probably twice as many deflection coils as a regular consumer CRT.
Not bad for a monitor from 1994 that probably never saw anything over 1024x768 in practical use before I ever acquired it. I got literally 4 times the pixels of the typical desktop resolution of the time.
Was it worth it? For daily use, no. For learning experience, absolutely!
Yeah, you’re right about shitty computer brands ~20 years ago. Turned out they were all shitty in the long run, as that was back during the Taiwanese counterfeit capacitor plague… ☹️
As far as vehicles go, I don’t much care for luxury features, that’s just more points of failure. And now they got all the sensors, modules, cameras and stuff on the CAN bus, which is good for the manufacturer because it reduces the copper wiring, but bad for the consumer, as one faulty shorted sensor can take down the entire data bus and basically brick your car.
Just give me a vehicle that cranks, runs, drives, and stops when I got places to go, and is easy to troubleshoot and repair as necessary. The most luxury I care for is heater and air conditioning. I’ll trade in the push button windows for hand crank rollup windows as long as the vehicle comes with a spare tire. I don’t want any vehicle that tracks everywhere you go, records everything you do, and can be bricked remotely by the police.
Our current vehicle is a 2005 Hyundai Tucson, roommate’s had it going on 4 years now I think, for $3000. At first it had some running issues, but after a new coil pack, crankshaft position sensor, and mass airflow sensor, it purrs like a kitten ever since. And those sensors are cross compatible between Hyundai Tucson and Kia Sportage from 1999 to 2010, meaning both used and new parts aren’t too difficult to find.
And it’s not on a payment plan, he outright owns it 👍
And that’s half of how we ended up in the era of enshittification.
Let’s say one of the control knobs on your 15 year old dumb stove fails, shorted out, where as soon as you turn it to low heat the eye is blazing hot at full heat. Do you?..
We went with option B, way cheaper than a new stove, plus none of the headaches of modern digital technology. Like, why do appliances need modern digital technology? A stove heats food, plain and simple, and that’s all it needs to do.
And look at these new refrigerators coming out, that fail within weeks to months, maybe at best a couple or few years. When your grandma’s old fridge was passed down from her mom and has been kicking strong for 50 years, save for that new door seal installed like 15 years ago…
Sigh, we live in a disposable dystopia anymore ☹️
Probably so, I got zapped quite a few times myself.
That’s probably what’s wrong with me ain’t it? 🤔
I looked up OP’s system, it supports 8GB RAM max.