::: spoiler spoilers for how it works in the video:
Sadly it just crashes immediately because Google has measures in place to prevent this behavior, and the rest of the video is an ELI5 on swap space.
:::
Very much possible, but I'm aware of what swap is and how does it work. That's my problem with videos in general - if it was an article, I can easily skim through the parts I know and read only parts that interest me.
I totally understand. Articles are much better at actually finding information. Videos are more entertaining though. There's nothing in that video that really couldn't have been in an article.
Thank you! I was curious but not ten-minute-video curious. I wonder if there's a cloud provider that doesn't block this sort of usage - could it work with onedrive/dropbox/etc?
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ibk@lemm.ee · 63 pts · 3y
In case anyone is curious if this would work, LTT tried it: https://youtu.be/minxwFqinpw
yote_zip@pawb.social · 90 pts · 3y
::: spoiler spoilers for how it works in the video:
Sadly it just crashes immediately because Google has measures in place to prevent this behavior, and the rest of the video is an ELI5 on swap space. :::
rikudou@lemmings.world · 41 pts · 3y
Thanks! I hate watching a whole video for something that could be a paragraph at most.
average650@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y
To be fair, the video covers a lot more than just that answer.
rikudou@lemmings.world · 17 pts · 3y
Very much possible, but I'm aware of what swap is and how does it work. That's my problem with videos in general - if it was an article, I can easily skim through the parts I know and read only parts that interest me.
average650@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
I totally understand. Articles are much better at actually finding information. Videos are more entertaining though. There's nothing in that video that really couldn't have been in an article.
Flicsmo@rammy.site · 13 pts · 3y
Thank you! I was curious but not ten-minute-video curious. I wonder if there's a cloud provider that doesn't block this sort of usage - could it work with onedrive/dropbox/etc?
ThiccFurLizzy@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 3y
The video also explains why it doesn't really work; the latency is so large, the system is better off getting the files from local storage.
Flicsmo@rammy.site · 4 pts · 3y
I kind of assumed that haha, this wouldn't be something you'd do for practical purposes. Still fun though!
zosu@vlemmy.net · 40 pts · 3y
yeah, leak all swapped data into their cloud * shiver *
yote_zip@pawb.social · 28 pts · 3y
You're right, we should add an encryption step as well!
TheyCallMeHacked@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 3y
Furiously sets up a LUKS swap partition on Google Drive
Monologue@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 3y
this hurts my brain
jrandiny@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 3y
My ISP: what a wonderful thing you have there. I will definitely not charge you an arm and a leg for the bandwidth
pztrn@bin.pztrn.online · 14 pts · 3y
Will kind-of-work for users with gigabit+ links, actually.
average650@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 3y
It really doesn't ...the latency is sooo bad
pztrn@bin.pztrn.online · 6 pts · 3y
That's why "kind-of-work".
JustAManOnAToilet@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Like speaking third most Italian.
pztrn@bin.pztrn.online · 5 pts · 3y
If it quacks, walks like a duck and looks like a duck - then it is a duck.
If it mounts like swap and you can use it as swap - then it is a swap space.
tal@kbin.social · 4 pts · 3y
rikudou@lemmings.world · 4 pts · 3y
Not at all, it's way too slow.
average650@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
It really doesn't ...the latency is sooo bad
cynetri@midwest.social · 11 pts · 3y
is that a whole petabyte of swap???
skomposzczet@vlemmy.net · 8 pts · 3y
That's one way of making your temp memory even slower.
mvirts@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
could the filesystem driver get evicted to swap?
deadcream@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
Nope, it's always in memory (while module is loaded).
mvirts@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
could the filesystem driver get evicted to swap?