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    this is the first time in many years of my GNU/Linux journey that I saw a BSOD. on my office machine BTW. personal machine has never crashed even once.
    the crash was due to 100% RAM and swap usage.

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    a mobile-clicked photo of a laptop screen. the background is full black with a sad computer image in the middle. the text below it reads: "Oh no! something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please log out and try again."
    just below it is a small button with the text "log out"

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    [–] Floshie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Who uses ram anyway. Go buy yourself an HDD of 12TB of swap partition

    [–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Cloud is the future. Mount Google Drive as your swap

    [–] YoorWeb@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Oh shit guys we just downloaded more RAM

    [–] ignotum@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

    What if they have more than one pc? Are they supposed to buy a harddrive for each?

    Get yourself a NAS and use that for swap, much easier to share between devices!

    [–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    How do you get it to actually swap? I tried changing swapiness but it still hardly touches swap but maxes out ram and freezes.

    [–] Floshie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago

    To be frank, I don't actually know. I've had one or two times where my ram was maxed out because I used too many VMs but I barely remember