I have never used zram, so for me, no.

I don’t know if there are any distros that set it up out-of-box, and I’d guess that a lot of people won’t use it if it isn’t set up for them by default.

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This guy in a 2023 thread on Reddit says that Fedora has it enabled out-of-box.

https://www.reddit.com/r/lowendgaming/comments/13d5brx/enable_zram_on_low_end_linux_machines_for_a_free/

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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SwapOnZRAM

Fedora Workstation has included zram since July 2019 (Fedora 31) by default. Any clean installed systems from that point will automatically be upgraded to this feature.

Fedora IoT has included zram from the beginning. All systems will automatically get this feature upon upgrade.

That feature targeted Fedora 33. I’m not familiar with the Fedora changes wiki thing, so I don’t know whether it actually went into Fedora 33 or not.

It’s really aimed at systems that are running on a small amount of memory and are hitting swap. My systems don’t really hit swap. But if you are swapping, it generally lets you reduce the amount of swapping in exchange for some more CPU usage.

I mean, you could always put something like this on any vehicle.

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https://www.amazon.com/HornBlasters-Watt-Public-Address-Sirens/dp/B0076ZPOAS

Make sure you are heard loud and clear with 100 Watts of power blasting your voice or waking the neighborhood with the built-in selection of popular sirens. If that wasn’t obnoxious enough, hook it up to the built-in auxiliary cord to ensure everyone can hear your favorite Taylor Swift song whether they want to or not!

Granted, having it pre-installed probably lowers the bar to use, but it’s not like it’s something fundamentally new.

The article from four days back that was submitted on here about the SR-71 being brought back, for context:

https://lemmy.today/post/60858103

I don’t generally like the Twitter model and rarely use it, but I will say that one thing that it does do well, better than the Reddit/Threadiverse model, is very rapidly assembling information about a specific, temporary topic.

Like, the Reddit model is about letting a community assemble over time and letting people find their way there and moderators be chosen and all that. That works quite well for a lot of things, and lets people with expertise in the field arise and all that.

But let’s say that there’s a huge natural disaster and people are putting up video clips from their cell phones and stuff like that. They can coalesce around a hashtag or a couple of hashtags pretty quickly. Relevant material from people who have had no contact with each other and maybe no time to assemble a community or anything gets drawn together. Other users retweeting content help highlight it. The topic probably won’t be active for long. It can be really useful for a rapid setup and teardown scenario.

Of course, that’s really mostly following a hashtag, rather than a particular user…

I also dislike the “short comment” model that Twitter uses (though over the years, the comment length has been increased and workarounds added), but one thing that it does help with is to help deal with inexperienced users unfamiliar with quoting etiquette. In email or in traditional forum systems, it’s conventional to quote a bit of relevant text before responding to it. This requires knowing syntax for doing so and when it’s appropriate. Twitter deals with that by forcing everything to be broken up into bite-size chunks as a property of the system, so someone responding to something is forced to respond to only the relevant bit. I think that that probably helps make Twitter more-approachable.

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first Wi-Fi 8 router

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_8

The standard is projected to be finalized in May 2028.

Anything that anyone is selling now as being “Wi-Fi 8” is at best a guess as to what Wi-Fi 8 will be along with (hopefully) later firmware updates.