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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • You will always need some sort of oom killer unless you have endless memory (or swap space, which comes with its own problems in the form of grinding your system to an almost halt). Imagine all memory is in use, then some system critical task (or even the kernel itself) needs memory as well. If the kernel can’t kill a less important process to free memory in such a situation you might just crash your system.









  • I run my instance on a Quartz 64 with 8GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD. Works just fine.

    On my instance there are two users, one being myself and the other one beein a seeder bot. It automatically pulls top communities and posts from other instances to keep the feed fresh. For this I wrote my own script, if you’d like to have it I can post it here or you can just use an already available project like this: LCS

    Like that my post is always full with enough posts to keep me reading.


  • I am running gentoo on 4 different systems currently.

    Setup can be a bit of a hustle, especially on exotic hardware (one of my devices is a Pine64 Quartz64) but once it’s running maintenance isn’t that big of a deal, an emerge —sync && emerge -avdu @world per week generally is all the maintenance I do.

    Also if you want to learn about linux there is probably no better way except LFS which will not leave you with a system you can easily use in day to day work.

    I say give it a shot if you have the time and are willing to learn and troubleshoot!