Actual budget just dropped, holy hell
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Actual budget just dropped, holy hell
I run opensuse tumbleweed kde on the same laptop, I’ve put 8gb ram and 360gb ssd and wifi 6e ax210 hmw card in it and it works good as casual machine
https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=35.+Linux4004
Blog post if interested
Xeon 2696v3 is good with it’s 18 core 36 threads, this cpu cost around 45$ on AliExpress too, also top up 128gb ram and it’ll be great homeserver
Recent news about running Linux on intel 4004 be like
Trashcan Mac is good tho, as compact and quiet Linux machine it is
Sometimes your package manager asks you for root password every minute while doing few hours long update and cancelling process if you don’t enter anything for few minutes, “yay” aur manager looking at you, and you got to do other things than sit and look in the monitor all day long, things like cleaning house or touching grass for example
Is there 32bit arch release at all? I know there’s arch based 32bit distros, but as far as i know, arch itself is x86-64 and arm only
c/murderedbywords
I use separate hdd solely as swap for these cases, used 500gb laptop hdd is good enough if you turn zswap zstd compression on, with recent kernels using mglru it works splendidly
zram to the rescue
I would recommend this though https://mspoweruser.com/windows-12-lite-is-here-and-it-doesnt-have-any-built-in-ads/
Don’t worry, you’ll return to it after almost decade of distro hopping and wanting for your pc to just work
Main problem is, ram isn’t upgradable on recent Apple tech, and you’ll need ram for containers, if you’re gonna host it to the CPU limit, if not, then even more so, brand new intel n100 mini pc for 100-150$ is gonna do wonders for you in self hosting field, what I’m saying is, if your MAIN goal is self hosting, then Mac is not optimal, i mean, you can buy Mac mini for your daily tasks and intel n100 mini pc for pocket change you’ll have left after buying Mac, and host your projects on intel one while using Mac yourself