Exactly. And it was gobbling up 30 gigabytes / is switched on by default.

#JustMicrosoftThings

I literally just now disabled hiberfil.sys on Windows (it’s basically useless tbh) and reclaimed 30 fucking GB of space.

powercfg /h off

30GB.

WTAF.

$20 for a Compaq CQ45 or slightly newer on eBay…throw in a small SSD.

See my comments above as to what you can run with it. TL;DR a surprising amount

Can confirm that worked well into the Win8.1 era.

Heh. I have a core 2 duo (Compaq CQ45, circa 2010) with 4gb running Zorin Lite OS. For 99.99% for every day tasks (and then some) it runs excellently, with about 600-800mb in reserve before caching. We’re talking YouTube, LibreOffice, multiple Firefox tabs, GIMP…all it needed was a cheap ssd to replace the spinning rust.

For context: this thing struggles to run Half Life 2 at any sort of reasonable speeds (though that’s an iGPU issue to be fair).

Last glance this laptop costs $20AUD to purchase off eBay.

Win 10 LTSC, Tiny10 or Tiny11 no good for your brother’s use case? I haven’t kept up with the Tiny cooks but IIRC Tiny 10 used a comically small amount of ram.

queue creedence clearwater revival

When that baby hits 88 miles per hour, you’re gonna see some serious shit

Hello your Majesty. Please, can you send bobs and vagine? I cannot find.