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Re:I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux ... by throwaway27448 on Sunday May 17, 2026 @02:29PM (#48171756)
Frankly if you don't need a web browser (or electron), what WOULD require that much memory? Video and photo editing maybe? Postgres? Recompiling the world?
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Re:I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux ... by sellmesoap on Sunday May 17, 2026 @05:10PM (#48173230)
I first started recompiling the world with 64MB of ram, kind of funny how far we've come on hardware and made software gobble up the gains with very little to show for it.
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