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A Sam Altman parody offers an amusing lesson in memory management
Developer Iain Kay has created Ram-Altman, a satirical Linux script inspired by Sam Altman’s comments about people keeping underused DRAM in personal computers. It jokes that users should email Altman when more than 10 per cent of their RAM is available, highlighting how Linux measures reclaimable memory.
The script checks memory every five minutes and limits joke emails to one a day; a dry-run mode lets users see the jokes without sending anything. On a Fedora system with 16 GiB of physical RAM, it reported 14.9 GiB usable, of which 4.9 GiB, or 33.1 per cent, was available. The project notes that this snapshot of available capacity does not show how often memory is actually being used, as Altman was discussing.
In short
- A parody script turns available Linux RAM into a joke email trigger.
- A Fedora test found 4.9 GiB, or 33.1 per cent, available.
- A dry-run option shows the jokes without sending email.