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At the moment that's entirely plausible. Maybe they are a harbinger, just not for earthquakes.

Ah I didn't spot that when copying over from last year.

I guess it's a bit more nuanced, too. I probably would have changed it to Mbin/Kbin.

Kbin the platform is no longer being developed, replaced by the fork Mbin. But there are still instances called Kbin that are running the Mbin software, e.g. https://kbin.earth/

It was! There is actual potential if it turned out to have a basis, and to be fair it's likely worth the time to do a study on any widespread myth/old wives tale like that because you never know if there might be something to it, and if there's not well at least now you have proof.

Other types of cheese are available, it's just that cheddar is not clearly labeled as such since it's kind of the "default".

E.g.

Yeah the cache as part of used memory theory didn't stack up. This comment (sorry, Lemmy probably doesn't handle the link well) showed 54GB in use, 30GB cached, and 13GB available. 54+12 = 67GB total so cached doesn't seem to be counted as in use since it should be counted as free (mostly).

In the end, I'm pretty sure it's a memory hog website. It kept filling up until GNOME crashed and I lost my progress (I was trying to order prints for 1000 photos on a horrible website that made me change settings one photo at a time, and the longer I took the more RAM filled up).

Anyway the fact that you can’t run Linux with 16GB is weird

I mean, it runs fine. It's more how I'm using it. Firefox 4GB, Element 1GB, Signal 1GB, Beeper 1GB, Steam 2GB, Joplin 1GB. That's all just open and idle (chats and Steam don't even have windows, just background) and are the minimum I would have open at any point. That's already 10GB. By the time I open a couple of windows in a Jetbrains IDE or a particularly demanding website and suddenly it's suffocating.

In NZ English... "Cheese". Though we do have a term "tasty" for a 12-18 month aged cheddar cheese that I don't think is commonly used elsewhere. At the supermarket you're likely to see "mild" or "tasty" not "cheddar".

In Māori, "tīhi". It's a transliteration of "cheese" into a language that has neither a "ch" nor a "s" sound.

Well in a turn of events, the stupid photo printing website I was using just kept filling RAM up until it was full then GNOME crashed me back to the login page.

Well top currently shows:

    
MiB Mem :  64076.1 total,   2630.3 free,  51614.1 used,  34046.9 buff/cache     
MiB Swap:   4096.0 total,      2.3 free,   4093.7 used.  12462.0 avail Mem 


  

While the "Mission Center" app shows:

Thanks!

Haha when they did that blog post to change the switch from 8/10 to 4/10 saying they don't normally do that but wanted to make sure you could compare the 2 properly against the original, I thought they were making space for the 2 to be above the original, not that they were going to mark it as worse 😅

Oh the applications sure were using a lot of RAM, I can't deny that.

How does that happen? Shouldn't the GPU and CPU have thermal throttling so even under intense loads it just slows down to keep temps down?

When I play games on my laptop the integrated graphics are at 100% most of the time but it doesn't cause the system to crash.

Yeah it's pretty rare so whatever system they are using is surely working fine most of the time.

I'll have a look, thanks!

Any in particular?

The idea is to get some census like data to learn about the kids of people who use our instance/Lemmy. We've put some effort into trying not to scare people off while still yielding useful data. If there is any feedback I'd love to hear it! I can't change much after the survey has started but I'd love to take feedback into the next time and help other instances too.

It's worth noting that no question is mandatory. If you're not comfortable answering a question you don't have to (and it's fine to e.g. skip the "census" style questions and jump to the questions about how you use Lemmy.)

Correct. If I had a lot of stuff open (I like to keep stuff open for when I get back to it) then the whole system was slow and would sometimes lock up completely. I needed to close things to keep it stable.

Wait, everyone is saying cached is part of the used memory but yours shows more cached than in use?

Mine was definitely not handling 16GB...

Whoops! That sucks. Mine will be easy to fix but I can imagine there are people with a stack to recreate.

The study starts:

In Japan, folklore says that uncommon appearances of deep‐sea fish are an earthquake precursor.

I guess if three show up in a short time (as in the article) then there might be something else going on? More likely to be climate change than earthquakes though.