ZRAM in WSL2

If you have been using WSL2 on Windows, you would be quite surprised and satisfied at the same time for how well it works as a Linux CLI. And so was I, because it allows you the convenience of Windows + the flexibility of Linux systems. It acts as a bridge between the two, and you can run Linux commands on Windows, and Windows commands on Linux. For this reason, I use it to build custom ROMs for my Android devices. But with Android 15, the system requirements have been upped from 32gb to 64gb, and I have only 32gb of RAM on my desktop. ...

February 20, 2025 · 5 min · 873 words

Whatsapp Without Phone

I had stopped using whatsapp because I didn’t want to have it’s proprietary app on my de-googled device. The Issue But you see, this application is used by most of my academic professors and other colleages, so I had to somehow use it (without the app on my phone, of course). So I thought of running it through some android emulator, but didn’t want to natively run it on my linux machine. [No waydroid as I run X11] ...

May 29, 2024 · 3 min · 484 words