Mission Center - for Linux based machines

Yes, we have top, htop, the other thing that I installed & forgot about - but what if I want "more"? maybe I've been ruined by using a Windows machine for a few days, who knows.

Now, would it be great to have something like this that you could tap into for "reality"?*

Anyway, here is an app called MissionCenter.  Check it out HERE: https://missioncenter.io/

Rather than faff around, go get the latest releases from here:

https://gitlab.com/mission-center-devs/mission-center/-/releases

oooo, look: amd64 & arm64 versions - potential RPi5 version?!

"so what?"

Well, thanks to this nifty little tool, that does resemble the Windows Task Manager - it made me aware that I had a couple of background database services running that I'm not using, so can turn off, saving a bit of RAM.

Also, "wow!", look at just how much RAM [Chromium] is taking up! nearly 4Gb - F*k me! When did simple web-pages get so frigging bloated? It's just some pixels collated into some text and graphical images - how did it get this bad!???!?

Well, it has made me more aware that maybe having 3 x Chromium web-browser open with 10-20 tabs in each one is probably not a good idea.  Maybe I should trim it down a bit and not, "just leave that Desktop window over there open with those 10 tabs open", maybe I should just do one thing at a time?

How am I meant to create and run an entire universe & simulate billions of users accessing the fake world with this limited amount of RAM? He says, jokingly. 8GB was an obscene amount of RAM, back when 4MB (yes, Megabytes) was more than enough to do 90% of what you needed.  We now have TBs (Terrabytes) of RAM available on the newest laptops, this is now getting silly.

Remember the Playstation 1? Yep - remember just how "wow!" that was when you stuck the "Gran Turismo" CD-rom in & started playing, yep?  Well, that machine had 2MB of RAM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_technical_specifications

Let that sink in for a minute.

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I'll wait.

Yes, so that Playstation 5 that now runs Unreal Engine 5 to give you ripples on water and flashy moving individual hairs on a player character, do you really need 16GB RAM? What are we really striving for here? To come up with a device to be re-used as a billion+ multi-player video game? nudge-nudge-wink-wink ;-)

*"A Christmas story", cheers Plato:

"The world is an illusion & there is a reality beyond what we can see"