Pro tip...

pro tip, move your download folder to /tmp that way whatever you download is saved in memory instead of wasting disk space. anything worth keeping, you just move out like you normally do anyways. but everything else, gets instantly destroyed when you reboot and never waste write cycles on your ssd. its also great for privacy reasons as well.

also worth moving your browsers disk cache to /tmp as well. no need to waste disk writes and space with cache and for privacy reasons as well. once its deleted, its gone forever.

think about using usenet or torrents. having large zip / rar / 7zip files that need to be unarchived written into /tmp instead. much faster decompressions. if you use gentoo, you can compile completely in /tmpfs, saving large amount of writes on your ssd, and speeding things up because you are reading and writing in the 40gb+ zone rather than 500mb with a normal ssd or maybe 3gb with an nvme.

there is benefits in having a lot more ram thank you technically "need." having disposable ram is like having disposable income. you can start messing with /tmp and moving stuff into /tmpfs instead. and if you get 64 or even 128gb of ram, you can start moving entire applications into /tmp as well. imagine placing a game like skyrim into /tmp. with a ton of loose files. 40gb+ a second read speeds.

you can call this cope all you want. but you don't realize how many new doors open up once you get large amount of ram.

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>/tmp isn't its own partition
>not archiving everything even remotely useful forever in the autism NAS
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by default systemD uses half your memory for /tmp cache. so if you have 64gb of ram, by default it will be 32gb of ram. if you have 16gb of ram, its 8gb. but you can increase this with:
>sudo mount -o remount,size=(##)G,noatime /tmp
so
>sudo mount -o remount,size=60G,noatime /tmp
so now /tmp can use up to 60gb out of 64gb of ram.

it is its own partition technically. as its ram by default. /tmp is mounted into ram by systemD by default. see /tmp is tmpfs.

wiki.archlinux.org/title/Tmpfs

if you really want to help your computer move your chrome cache to zramfs, rather than leaving it on disk

that's literately moving it to /tmp. /tmp by default, at least if you use systemD, is tmpfs. its stored in ram.
>chromium --disk-cache-dir="/tmp/chomrium-cache"

I don't use systemd, mate

well there is your problem. get your init service to convert /tmp to tmpfs.

or do it yourself
>fstab
>tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,nodev,nosuid,size=(#half your memory#)G 0 0
so
>tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,nodev,nosuid,size=32G 0 0