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/
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
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.
You can do it easily if you aren’t running full HD or something heavy. Enlightenment runs great on my Pi B and 2 B.
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
You might not remember that the original Macintosh had 128KB. That’s KB with a K.
Our 90s Mac ran OS 7.6 with 24 MB of ram and a 500MB HD.
Played shareware/warez games pretty well too, even OG Warcraft over 56k dialup direct to my friend’s PC.
Gta 5 was running on 512mb shared ram in ps3 and Xbox 360
512 shared on the 360, 256 dedicated RAM and 256 dedicated VRAM on the PS3.
Yes, see my other comment in this post, I’ve mentioned what you’ve said, however, you should know, ps3 gpu could use both vram and ram but CPU on the other hand didn’t, so it’s kinda shared actually
I mean, VPSs with 512MB of RAM exist, so surely it’s still useful for something.
Yup, and I use them. 512MB is more than enough for a lot of things.
My Synology NAS has 512 MB of ram. She won’t be winning any races, but she’s a fine beauty. Hits NAS with a wrench
Yeah idk man I had to upgrade mine to the max supported ram (I think 8gb or something) because I run a bunch of services like adguard home and jellyfin on it
A raspberry pi zero 2 w ($15) has 512 MB of ram
I suddenly felt so old. My first computer had 8MB RAM… 486 DX2 66MHz
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.
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
I bow down to you, greybeard
Tandy model 1 level 2. 2k.
This isn’t a contest, but more a support group.
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.
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
It sounds like the processor is the real limitation. Plenty of stuff from Windows XP era and before ran in less than 512MB.
I’m pretty sure car thing has 512Mb, not MB.
