A satirical script inspired by Sam Altman emails him daily if your PC has spare RAM

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Developer Iain Kay created Ram-Altman, a Bash script described by its author as a "parody project" that emails OpenAI CEO Sam Altman once a day if more than 10 percent of system RAM is reported as available. The idea followed Altman's comments on the Cheeky Pint podcast about wasted DRAM in personal computers. The project includes a dry-run option that sends no emails and does not contain Altman's address.

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Ram-Altman is a Bash script that calculates used memory as MemTotal minus MemAvailable and triggers if more than 10 percent of RAM is available.
The project was inspired by Sam Altman's comments on the Cheeky Pint podcast about wasted DRAM in personal computers.
The script limits outgoing emails to one per day and offers a dry-run mode that sends nothing.

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