Bye-bye, Apple reddit / BSD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GodlessAristocrat · 2020-10-08 21:07 The idea that memory should sit around empty just baffles me. One should strive for constant \~100% memory utilization. That's like having a notebook and pen, but not using it to take notes because you might be out of paper if you ever need to take notes.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- umlcat · 2020-10-08 22:13 **tdlr;MacClassic running on DarwinBSD too slow;** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bawdyanarchist · 2020-10-08 23:50 OpenBSD is compelling for me. I am coming from Qubes, and I'm setting up a home server, so I feel the need for containerization as a backstop against bugs and personal mistakes, something which OpenBSD sadly doesn't have. Probably that one thing would've made the difference between Free vs Open BSD. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wfaulk · 2020-10-09 00:02 But the OS will use "spare" RAM to cache the filesystem. That is a perfectly good use of RAM. He's not complaining that the RAM is bring used. He's complaining that it's being used unnecessarily, which means that he can do fewer useful things with it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ishiken · 2020-10-09 00:23 What is the point of these posts? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bastardoperator · 2020-10-09 00:31 What is this person talking about. It's been almost 4-5 years since apple introduced USB-C and got rid of magnets. All I'm hearing is that my more modern computer is faster then my older one. \- xcode, I code daily, never use it \- dock and finder, friend, use alfred and shortcut keys \- .DS\_store files, hello .gitignore \- use a different terminal app, I'm using alacritty \- configure your notifications \- App store, yeah, brew cask my friend \- My BSD box beeps a nice little chord on start and stop I don't need HDMI or a power cord thanks to USB-C and my wifi is good enough for work. 64GB of ram in this bad boy and I have 50 tabs in chrome open, spotify, slack, postman, vscode, alacritty, pixelmator, pages, bear, zoom, graphiql, and littlesnitch all running... ram is at 13% utilization. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GodlessAristocrat · 2020-10-09 01:11 Sure, that's a good use - as long as the OS knows which files are more likely to be hit. And if it knows, then it should cache them in memory - and that seems to be what the writer is complaining about. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dandedoo · 2020-10-09 02:32 Not if it's pointless. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wfaulk · 2020-10-09 02:41 Maybe I'm reading it differently than you are, but I feel like he's talking about how much memory the base OS uses, prior to any applications or filesystem cache. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ben_bai · 2020-10-09 07:37 OpenBSD has pledge and unveil and some more additional "backstop against bugs", FreeBSD has jails and zfs, Qubes is linux. In the end it's a individual decision. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TrenItaglia · 2020-11-06 01:00 I would like to have a cache card filled with ram mounted as SWAP, way faster for the os and dedicate the main memory for the cpu, plus hard drives have their own cache