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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zram

    One of the mechanisms for compressing memory in Linux. Trades CPU time for effectively having more RAM Recent versions of Fedora apparently have it on by default.

    I’ve read that zswap, another mechanism, is preferable on newer systems with NVMe/SSD, where paging isn’t as painful; that only compresses pages going to swap, but requires that you actually have some swap. I haven’t used either.

    Probably someone should try benchmarking them for various workloads if systems are going to be running on much less memory for a while. Was more of an edge case thing that not many people cared about, but if operating with less memory is suddenly more important, might have broader interest.

    On Linux, also possible to opt for lighter-on-memory versions of a lot of software that you’re kinda committing to using the Microsoft-provided version of on Windows. File browser, compositor, etc.









    • Frequently, you get extreme CCP shills falsely accusing you of Sinophobia, and simultaneously some are actually some closeted Sinophobes.

    Let me guess. You went to one of the .ml instances and got accused of being “Orientalist” after saying something that someone politically disagreed with?

    Yeah, I still don’t completely understand that crowd. I don’t think that they’re actually shilling, because then they wouldn’t be advocating for North Korea. But there are a lot of people there who are clearly not interested in good-faith discussion. I just decided that it’s not worth dealing with them very early on.

    The !MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.works crowd is determined to keep plunging in, though.





  • For ANC, Sony’s WH-1000XM6. I’ve had people complain that I occasionally sound muffled when using it as a headset, though. The only other circumaural ANC headphones I’ve used are Sennheiser Momentum 4s, which have a lot of problems and I wasn’t happy with for other reasons. No complaints about being muffled, though. Other than that, all my ANC experiences have been on various earbuds, not headphones.

    For non-ANC, just a passive closed-back circumaural, my favorite so far is a Beyerdynamic DT 770. It’s an old design, first got one back maybe in 2000, but it’s been comfortable and durable, and has decent passive isolation. I picked up another pair a year or two back, and that’s what I typically use at home, where I don’t need ANC, if I’m seated at my computer. It doesn’t have a detachable cord, but that’s really the only thing I’d complain about.

    Can’t exactly use the DT 770 as an example of technology advancing, though, given context of the discussion here. :-)