512MB was a huge flash drive now it’s not enough ram. Turns out Spotify can’t open-source Car Thing because it’s a potato https://www.androidauthority.com/spotify-car-thing-open-source-3449487/
Yeah, that’s definitely not enough RAM to run any kind of lightweight UI. Especially not an automotive music remote control client 🤔
The 3rd gen Nest Thermostat also has 512MB of RAM, and it isn’t too much of a potato to be a thermostat, complete with animated UI. Author of this article has a severe lack of imagination
What, you mean 640KB isn’t really enough for everyone?
. . . I kid, I kid. Still, the CarThing strikes me as more of an embedded-type system. 512MB is generous for devices of that class, and more than sufficient for a carefully-tailored Linux kernel + busybox + another 100MB+ of running software. Potato, yes, but potatoes are a useful food source—just not as impressive as filet mignon.
No, that’s a cope. They just have to include the correct software license text file, like AGPL, when they send us the software.
that’s a cope
A priestly stole? I do not think that word means what you think it means.
And i think you’re a bit behind the times
A raspberry pi zero 2 w ($15) has 512 MB of ram
It depends on what you are doing. I’ve got single board computers running happily with 512MB of RAM. I certainly wouldn’t want to try and run a GUI on them though.
People have been running GUIs on much less for decades–though if you’re trying to use something out-of-the-box, anything modern will certainly not do well. But there’s tons of RPi stuff that runs on meager specs.
I’d have expected people would use these things for similar projects as SBCs.
I used to run a GUI on a Raspberry Pi B+ and it was doable, but that was a decade ago and many programs have gotten a lot more bloated since then. Of course if you are just running your own software, you can optimize it to run with very little RAM.
Antix Linux says hi, also remember that gta 5 and Skyrim was running on 512mb shared memory in Xbox 360 and 256+256 vram+ram on ps3
Gta 5 was running on 512mb shared ram in ps3 and Xbox 360
I suddenly felt so old. My first computer had 8MB RAM… 486 DX2 66MHz
But did it have that sweet, sweet local bus goodness?
Also if it is any consolation, 486DX266 was way after I got my first computer.
My first PC was FULL of memory. It had ALL the memory. No amount of money could add more. It had 640KB. It was crazy.
My first computer wasn’t a PC, it had 64KB RAM. I never needed more.
You decadent young whippersnappers have no idea.
16kb of RAM, z80 CPU. That’s how we did it in my day.
You don’t know you’re born.
Tandy model 1 level 2. 2k.
This isn’t a contest, but more a support group.
Hah ! I had 256 mathematicians perform very simple calculations, 128 horse riders then relayed the results to 512 stone engravers for storage
You kids don’t know how easy you have it
