Its not a myth at all. If a software uses too much RAM it has to be killed because otherwise the OS crashes. You can read more about it here: https://linux-mm.org/OOM_Killer

Here is the source code: https://codebrowser.dev/linux/linux/mm/oom_kill.c.html

It absolutely will try, it just gets killed by the oom reaper.

Windows shows memory used for cache as free. Linux per default shows it as used.

Try free -m

Also I would disable swap, it is no longer 2004.

What the fuck.

The capacitors have a limited lifetime.

PCI bus bar on top.

3600W is the maximum a power socket is rated for and the fuse triggers at 3800W. So, cutting it pretty close.

This could mean that they eavesdrop on your router.

ZigBee (home automation protocol) operates on 2.4 GHz just like WiFi.

They could have guessed that there is a smart light or maybe they were able to look it up on your router.

The sad thing is that the bar is so low. If it was a once in a century charismatic leader you could say “I get how people fell for this!”. But the fact it’s Trump and Musk just exposes how utterly flawed human society is, and how easy it is to slide backwards. Humanity has no excuse for this one.

That would require us, the users, to donate more.

The binary is called apt-get. There are others like apt-cache etc.

Apt is a script that just figures out which binary to use and passes the arguments on.

• apt update -> apt-get update
• apt policy -> apt-cache policy