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.

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

That was my first thought as well - it’s straight out of “Rainbow’s End”.

And once again, reality feels like too few people took the lessons from the book to heart.

Element with Matrix.org is getting pretty decent.

They should go for it.

The Commodore 64 was the highest selling computer model of all time, until around 2020, because of it’s game library.

SteamOS probably has the best easily accessible game library of all time.

The Commodore 64 taught us that games will carry a personal computer to massive popularity and sales, even if the computer has trade-offs.

I agree with others who have commented that there’s better versions of Linux for the average user.

But I don’t think it matters.

A Steam machine with a cheap keyboard and mouse would be hugely popular this Fall, and would make it’s users fall in love with Linux, in spite of issues - because we all love video games.

Agreed. They suck. I just try to remember that they’re still actually on my (non-billionaire) side of the class war, even though they’re ingorantly actively hurting our shared cause.

I’m not actually being generous though.

My motive is knowing that the billionaires really want me to forget that even maga clowns are my natural allies, and could still benefit my cause in the future.

True. And as much as I hate to ally with a group that I see as mostly ingorant and foolish…

If I must to choose between Bill Gates and an ignorant Trump supporter - one of the two categories has ever helped me change a flat tire on the side of the highway.

I think they’re largely wrong for why they dislike Gates, but they’re not wrong that he’s on the opposite side of an unprecedented self-propegating wealth gap and class war, from the rest of us.

Thank you. My big question from this list was “WTF is a Shenmue?”

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