Example using synaptic, first disable unnecessary repositories and reload them.

@GlennW
My laptop, Daedalus 5.0+Trinity DE+chromium+system monitor tde=176 processes. You have 778. Or did I misunderstand gkrellm?

Regards.

I once had a problem with writing an image whose size exceeded the size of RAM using the dd command while simultaneously turning on tmp in memory. The recording just froze. When I turned off tmp, the problem disappeared.
Then, with newer kernels, such errors did not occur.

Not sure if this will help.
Look at the memory usage when extracting a file from an archive.
The only time I saw 16GB fully used on my computer was when copying a 30GB file, Linux was using memory for the buffer.

It's nice to be in the company of literate people!

But can someone explain why all this fuss with rm /var/log/boot.0 ?
Will we replace cron and logrotate?
And what does SSD have to do with it? Has the number of rewrites become smaller due to this?

But SSDs are actually good, especially for older laptops with weak processors.

Why not use viber or signlal?
This is also VoIP.

I have no idea.
Maybe start with this?
https://manpages.debian.org/experimenta … .1.en.html

Regards.

@GlennW
Cooling can be checked completely objectively. My SSD supports smart and shows the temperature. And there are stress tests for the processor. Lenovo limits it to 10 minutes on its test disk. The temperature of my laptop's processor rose to 72 degrees and did not rise further.
Old radio textbooks said that reducing the operating temperature by 10 C doubles the service life.

@pcalvert

Then at least well-known brands.
I had two of them, one 10" with a bluetooth keyboard (China with Polish brand), the second 7" from this "company"
https://www.devicespecifications.com/en/brand/18201a2
Both died in the 3rd year due to memory failure.

The last one is noteworthy.
After the end of the warranty period (1 year), the technical support site where there should have been updates stopped opening. And in the second year, some other one opened instead and installed some other programs. I had to do a hard reset.

I was left with the impression that the refusal after the end of the guarantee was planned in advance and was done programmatically. Maybe I'm wrong.

I just gave up on androids and bought a small used laptop.

Regards.

@TCH
There may be different firmware options for a modem of the same type. Only for one provider or accepting SIM cards of any, etc.
I don’t know what program you use for commands, there is a Modem Manager and a Gui for it. He can show you the details.

P.S. I was messing around with this a year ago, trying to unlock the modem or get my push-button mobile phone to work as a modem. The latter's chipset supports this, responds to commands via USB, but does not want to work.
A fun activity!

Regards.

I just disabled the rsyslog service.

P.S. Just in case, this is not recommended with systemd.

@golinux

So I suspected that there was something in this!

My forum experience dates back to 2005, and when I came here I was pleasantly surprised by the friendly spirit and mood of the forum. Of course this is the merit of the administrators.

This is not meant as petty sycophancy, but rather “what needs to be said must be said.”

Regards.

The middle mouse button for pasting the contents of the clipboard is a legacy of Unix, which is how it differed from Win in ancient times.
Later “innovations” are usually commercial products and Linux comes last for them.
I'm afraid of them and I've never had them.