I have a number of things running in the background after booting, so here’s some numbers for you:

• Steam: 1.1GiB
• Firefox: 1 GiB
• Discord: 500-600 MiB
• SchildiChat (Matrix Client): 300 MiB
• KeePassXC: 180 MiB
• KDE’s System Monitor (which I am using to get these values): 140 MiB

In addition to that, there’s always a number of systems services, most of which use a negligible amount of memory, but here’s some I’m just picking out because I recognize what they do:

• plasmashell (KDE Plasma): 380 MiB
• kwin_wayland (also KDE Plasma): 70 MiB
• Syncthing: 80 MiB
• kdeconnectd: 30 MiB
• pipewire: 7.5 MiB (though there are some other processes associated with pipewire in addition to the main one)
• systemd-logind: 1.8 MiB
• systemd: 3.7 MiB
• cupsd: 2 MiB
• XWayland: 45 MiB
• Xorg: 40 MiB

Of course, these are just a snapshot of the systems state, and can only really give you a very rough idea of how much memory something might use at one point in time.

If you want to make your board game more complicated (probably not, but I like the idea, so I’m just throwing it in here), you could use it as an opportunity to teach virtual memory, segmentation, paging and internal vs external fragmentation. Maybe players get certain processes with memory requirements and have to fit them into their own main memory, and whoever can fit the most processes wins, or whoever cannot allocate memory for a new process looses. (I’m just writing down what’s coming out of my head, I don’t want to hijack your game idea, sorry.)

Yes, TinyCore-Core comes without a GUI (like the commenter above said, headless). When they say 28 MB RAM, that might even be overestimating it a bit. All of TinyCore-Core fits into just 17 MB. Of course that goes up if you need to install things, and I don’t know if it comes with an ssh-Server out-of-the-box. So for a proper server setup, 28 MB sounds pretty reasonable.

http://tinycorelinux.net/

It blows my mind, that there is an entire Linux Distro, that fits into a modern processor’s cache. Who needs RAM anyways? (unfortunately, because of how cache works, we can’t actually use it without RAM)

If you run your services off of a homelab rack that dims the lights whenever you power it on

If you are in this situation, then you definetly should get some more power, or at least a UPS to make sure you don’t trip a breaker.

Ooh, very cool!

Are the two different pictures different wavelengths, or do you just have two seperate sensors? (I have no idea how this works, just a highschool level understanding of x-rays.)

Ok, so this sent me down a brief rabbit hole on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headlamp), from which I learned that the US is the only industrialzed country who have a different standard for headlights.

The US SAE standard allows for much more glare on low-beams than the ESE standard used in other countries. That explains why I see so many complaints online over low-beam headlight glare, something I have only really found to be a little annoying over here in Europe. (Also, combine the “worse” standard with significantly larger cars to get even worse glare, I guess.)

But what I was actually looking in the article (didn’t know what it was called) was Glare-free high-beam, which is a system that dynamically shades and lights parts of the high-beams to provide as much light as possible without lighting up other cars.

From experience using it, I’m kinda torn. On the one hand, it does work, is really cool, and makes driving at night quite a bit easier and safer. On the other hand, it’s not perfect, and sometimes (not often, but still) it takes a bit to recognize another car or fails to recognize it completely. And when that happens, I am effectively blinding that other driver with my high-beams, which is bad.

So far, especially on the Autobahn, it works well enough that I tend to use it, because being able to see nearly everything brightly at night is so much safer for me, and the few times it fails I can manually intervene.

That sounds pretty plausible, but I’m not sure.

The windows are only very slightly off center, inconsistent, and even the ones above the clock are as well (although the clock mechanism could extend both up and down).

But I also don’t have any better explanation.

What exactly makes this stand out as AI to you, and not just cosplay?

I can’t really find any of the telltale signs of AI. The books on the shelf all look fine, the mirror on the left edge looks perfect and I can’t find anything immediately noticeable on the costume.

If this is AI, I think it’s probably just the face, maybe the whole person, but certainly not the whole picture. But maybe I missed something, please let me know.

One thing I don’t like about the “master key” metaphor: I do lockpicking as a hobby. And locks built for a master key are easier to pick, because you can open them with two keys. It seems kinda obvious when you think about it. (You gotta be careful when picking mastered locks though, the master wafers can fall into the keyway and permanently destroy the lock.)

It’s important to note here, that in Germany (at least, the region where I live) you will fail the practical driving exam if you don’t stop at a crosswalk with any pedestrian within about 5 meters, unless they are actively walking away from it.

I think overall German driver’s education is significantly better (and much more expensive) than in the US.

Depending on the language, there might exist an automated tool for generating those kinds of diagrams from code.