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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 19:44:15 -0700
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On 2025-03-24 19:28, Joel wrote:
> pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
>> On 2025-03-25, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>> On 2025-03-24 16:13, Joel wrote:
>>>> Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>>> Take a look at my Cinnamon taskbar:  https://i.imgur.com/yPGDm6a.png
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So nothing a Mac Mini with a base configuration couldn't easily handle.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Incorrect, I use beyond 16 GB RAM and even puke out a little over 32
>>>>>> at times having these tiny uses of swap.
>>>>>
>>>>> Funny you won't show it, huh?
>>>>
>>>> I'm including the use of cache in overall RAM use, the use of swap
>>>> when all 32 GB is used up to demonstrate that I really need the
>>>> resources I've provided my system.
>>>
>>> And you STILL won't show it.
>>
>> swapon -s
>> free -m
>> top
>> Are just a couple of methods.
>> There are more.
> 
> 
> But there's a larger point here, that Alan can't perceive, which is
> that I'm not subject to Apple's ridiculous prices for hardware, I paid
> a little over a hundred in 2021 for a 1 TB NVMe SSD, something still
> to covet in an Apple machine in 2025.  Upgrading to 32 GB RAM,
> installing the WiFi adapter and second SSD, even my video card, were
> all inexpensive upgrades.  My computer rocks, because I made it, and
> that includes installing Linux, instead of being hand-held by Apple.
> 

And now you're trying to dodge the subject.

You claimed you NEEDED these high specs...

....but you won't show that it's actually so.