I do not have any RAM to share, sorry.

An economics simulation in Python needing 200+GB of RAM sounds preventable.

In your friend’s shoes, I might start asking for pointers over on the programming.dev Lemmy.

As others have said, a rewrite in a faster language like C or goLang could help - but my guess is there’s also ways to cut that memory need way down, while still using Python.

So…Date Everything…is a thing, I guess?

I was just thinking about this: more evidence of the Minecraft to Linux self hosting pipeline.

I wouldn’t be concerned.

We’re at a point in portable technology where increased performance means decreased battery life and makes the system need to be larger and less comfortable to hold (makes it release more heat, which has to go somewhere).

I do not believe there is enough demand to expect a larger, hotter, SteamDeck with poorer battery life to be released soon, or maybe ever.

I’m tempted to commit to pretending that “Tribes” is a Linux distro that we’re all worried will gain too much popularity and hurt the ecosystem…

Joking aside, we welcome everyone here:

• Linux users
• Future Linux users
• The Linux curious

For all we know…

This isn’t something we need to speculate about. The vulnerability histories of popular closed and open source tools are both part of public data sets.

Looking into that data, the thing that stands out is that certain proprietary software vendors have terrible security track records, and open source tools from very small teams may be a mixed bag.

I’m aware of some, but recommendations are always welcome!

I’m saying that even just incincerely signaling they’re on the right side of history will determine my future shopping habits.

No corporation is good, but pretending to be decent is part of the bare minimum to get my money.

And few enough are even pretending to be decent, today, that I have money I could send to those that do. It’s hard to find places to shop that are easy to feel good about.

As for anyone deciding whether I’m doing too little: They don’t know my gender, what else I am dealing with in my life, or where and how much I donate, or protest.

My point is that Target’s CEO lost massive money (more than I will ever see) for siding with the bigots, and we can make others hurt for it too.

Edit: Policing my own tone, to stay helpful and uplifting.

I wonder too.

Having just weaned myself off of Target for their being too chickenshit to stand up for what is right (they pre-complied with reduced DEI).

I now have money saved up to throw at whover leans in hard to any topic that pisses off the billionaire authoritarian complex.

Crickets is pretty clever. Appropriate response to anti-trans posturing.

I’ve been there. I’m 100% sure my PC is now a brick, but I run across a post by some random person online:

"Press these keys, then type this exactly and hit “Enter”

And roughly five minutes later my PC is stable, purring happily, and two minor annoyances have gone away thanks to package updates.

Thank you all, kind Internet Linux guru strangers.

Edit: More like 25 minutes, really. 20 minutes of my reading docs to verify why this solution can work, and then 5 minutes for it to work.

Gnome also has a plugin(s) for this.

I use both, Fancy Zones and Gnome, but I like (one of) the gnome version(s) better.

Mainly, the Gnome version puts a quick toggle on screen for switching layouts with the mouse, and it makes better choices about what windows to display when shifting between windows with Alt+Tab.

It’s so beautiful!

That’s my journey too, except a few of those didn’t exist yet, when I first walked it.

Portable Windows apps and Ubuntu live Boot CDs awkwardly bridges some of the (previous) gaps, for me.

I kinda wish they would come in one package together too.

You may be able to find themed meta packages (single packages that install a suite of related features) for this, depending what you’re looking for.

Lately, I have been confused because I was looking for Gnome add-ons for features that vwere already included but just toggled off.

I now find that most of what I want, as a power user, is a quick settings search and then a toggle button.

The general dividng line, lately, in Gnome, is that plugins may still have bugs, while built-in features tend to be very reliable. Most of what PowerToys contains (that I care about) is just a settings toggle in Gnome. A notable exception is Window tiling, which I use a plugin for.

I’m thankful for both.

The plugin install on Gnome is quicker and less invasive (doesn’t require escalated permissions) than installing PowerToys.

I also like that Gnome plugins let me choose only the plugins I want. PowerToys leaves me with many installed features I’m not using. I think they at least all default to turned off. Gnome does save me a few moments of configuration, too, as the plugin can default to “on” since each plugin is separate.

And Gnome’s tiling has good defaults. PowerToys still uses “these are power users” as an excuse to ignore usability feedback.

Not as much as plants do anyway…

It’s weird to think about how I will never be involved in as much human sex as I have been involved (by randomly walking in the middle of) random plant sex. We humans just don’t do sex aggressively enough to keep up.

For lowest power, the LePotato is (humorously) named for it’s low power requirements, and I understand the Pi Zero can actually run for hours on small rechargeable battery packs.

A smaller lower power draw Pi Zero alternative that comes to mind is Arduino Teensy. But it sounds like no one is running Linux on Arduino Teensy, yet ?

But the folks in that forum sound like the types who might make it happen at some point.

What is actually the lowest end device that can run Linux

The Pi Zero and LePotato come to mind. Both are pocket sized and surprisingly capable.

But both are modern computers, and Linux has been around for a long time. So I wonder if the correct answer is something much older, larger and less capable. So this is probably a question for historians? (I don’t see an obvious answer on Wikipedia.)