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Reminder: Enable ZRAM on your Linux system to optimize RAM usage

The article recommends enabling ZRAM on Linux systems to optimize RAM usage. ZRAM creates a compressed block device in RAM that can improve performance by reducing swap usage and memory pressure.

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