What I’d recommend is setting up a few testing systems with 2-3GB of swap or more, and monitoring what happens over the course of a week or so under varying (memory) load conditions. As long as you haven’t encountered severe memory starvation during that week – in which case the test will not have been very useful – you will probably end up with some number of MB of swap occupied.

And

[… On Linux Kernel > 4.0] having a swap size of a few GB keeps your options open on modern kernels.

And finally

For laptop/desktop users who want to hibernate to swap, this also needs to be taken into account – in this case your swap file should be at least your physical RAM size.

I’ve been using EndeavourOS for 12 months now.
Very light steam gaming. Office stuff is basically web browsers (occasionally I have to swap to windows boot for silly excel spreadsheets that don’t work online). Programming is delightful.
It’s been solid, and the installer was great.
The major issues have been from dual booting windows (disable fast boot!) and from not updating frequently enough (keychain issues, tho endeavouros has plenty of “newb needs to update” helpers).

I love it. It’s mine, I own that laptop, and endeavouros works for me. I feel so much more in control than I ever did on windows.
I do have some basic experience running Debian servers (VMs for single service, or docker stuff), and I do programming.

I did this my my new pixel 8 pro. I loved it.
It was so easy, it worked, I was in control of my device.

Contactless payment didn’t work.
Which is a deal breaker for me.

I looked at some fin-tech solutions, I even bought a pixel watch (which didnt work because I have a workspace account). None of them let me work around the issue. Contactless just wouldn’t work.

Had to go back to stock android.
I’m constantly checking in on their attribution/verification/whatever status that would allow them to offer contactless payment (currently offered by android/apple/banks, but no open source software).
I want grapheneos and contactless so badly!

Yeh, ventoy takes an extra step (but ventoy is itself an extra step): find the iso from a legit source instead of using the media creation tool, install software to edit iso, add unattended.xml to the iso, plop iso on ventoy drive.

Anyone playing around with or working with Linux/windows:
Check out ventoy. I think they’ve solved their issues of binary blobs and it is so useful.
Create a Ventoy usb drive. Drag any and all OS ISOs onto the USB stick. Boot from the USB, choose which ISO to actually boot.
Want to switch flavours of live Linux (or try another installer)? Boot from usb, choose different ISO.
Absolutely fantastic software

Yeh, the 16/32 in the screenshot and that 2 sticks are dead suggests they have 4x 8gb sticks, and lends credence that one channel is being messed with.
They said they tested the ram on multiple systems, but they might have just thrown both “dead” sticks in there at the same time - leading to a similar failure mode as they are both on the same channel.

I bet 1 stick is dead, and they could probably get away with 24gb of ram in a 3/2 channel distribution

Maybe 1 is causing the other to fail?
Could try the sticks individually.

It is strange that 2 sticks fail at the same time. It smells like a symptom instead of the root issue.

FCKGW?

It’s not that difficult, is it?

I mean, it’s not like running a program on an already installed windows, or using the windows 11 installer to install from windows.
Otherwise, it’s the basic steps for installing any OS except for creating the unattended.xml file.

Use the media creation tool to create install media on a USB drive, work through the generator (Google what you need to), drop the resulting XML onto the drive, reboot from USB and install as normal.

Use an answer file with W11 Pro.
https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/

I haven’t noticed any AI bullshit, but I might be being protected by EU laws at the moment.

Battle Royale.
Pretty sure it was the first foreign language film I’ve watched.

And here’s me with my yay

In my experience, a Scheduler is something that schedules time on the CPU for processes (threads).

So 10 processes (threads) say “I need to do something”:
2 of those threads are “ready to continue” because they were previously waiting on some Disk IO (and responsibly released thread control while data was fetched).
1 of the threads says “this is critical for GPU operations”.
1 of those threads self declares it is elevated priority.

The scheduler decides which of those threads actually gets time on an available CPU core to be processed.

In simple terms, this means that the image is now built so that it produces exactly the same result every time. If the image is rebuilt later using the same source, it will be identical down to the last bit.

Thank you for reminding me

And then OneDrive comes along, someone accidentally saved “to the cloud” (IE the default windows location of OneDrive). And of course someone (you) has to fix all the desync bullshit.
Fuck excel, fuck Microsoft, fuck OneDrive!

Thank god my company is transitioning to a decent no code solution (nocobase plus literally anything that can interact with postgres - currently n8n but not yet limited to that. It’s a transition from excel, literally anything is better! (Tho, nocobase is awesome, non has it’s perks)).
Many parentheses, soz.
Fuck excel, use a database!

Professionals do seem to use excel.
Holy fuck is it painful for anyone that knows what they are doing.

I also hope Embark do the right thing and get VAs back in to voice quests and cut scenes.
Use the generated voice for items and locations only. Maybe, as an emergency, for continuity.

I guess it gives them unbelievable leverage over the VAs: “We are offering you $10 to do 4 hours of voice lines. Or we will just use the model we have already trained”.
Which then puts even more downwards pressure on VA wages.

I bet Embark has made bank, and it would be a massive PR win to get the VAs back in at an industry standard rate to do the quests and cutscenes.

Pretty much any mikrotik is a fantastic piece of kit to have.
It is so unbelievably versatile.
I love the various mikrotik routers, switches and APs I have. I use them all the time for little ad-hoc networks and projects and stuff.
You will learn a lot about networking when using them.

But Unifi is a hell of a lot easier to use, and I have not found anything I can’t do on unifi (but I don’t do bgp, mlag, etc at home).

Mine is named “Searching…”

It’s caught a few friends out

Pretty sure all ram manufacturers are Korean? I guess China puts chips on PCBs, maybe? But South Korea has the knowledge . And it had met domestic demand. RAM prices have been acceptable for many many years.
It’s the AI sector that is inflating demand (maybe by circular investment and contracts).
So, I don’t see anyone investing 10 years into the future to make ddr6 ram where their business plan relies on current trends.