IainKay/ram-altman
Monitors your RAM and reports any "quite terrible" unused capacity directly to the CEO of OpenAI.
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A bash script that writes to Sam Altman once a day to report the RAM he missed. Read the sample emails at ram-altman.lol, no install needed. [](https://ram-altman.lol) There is RAM in your computer. Right now. Just sitting there, in a personal computer, being personal. You may have thought of this as "a computer working normally". On a recent episode of Cheeky Pint, the CEO of OpenAI offered another view: That RAM, he added, is "being used maybe 5% of the time". Which raised an obvious question for a certain kind of person: surely someone should be monitoring this? So we wrote a script. If your machine has more than 10% of its RAM available, it sends one email a day to let Sam know. It seemed only fair. He can't fix the problem if nobody tells him where the RAM is. The figures are real. They come from your machine.…
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- Ram-Altman
- Features
- A sample of today's correspondence
- What counts as "used"?
- Installation
- Audit yourself
- Please be a good neighbour
- FAQ
- In fairness to Sam
- License
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What this repository does
Monitors your RAM and reports any "quite terrible" unused capacity directly to the CEO of OpenAI.
Repository facts
- Owner
- IainKay
- Primary language
- Shell
- Stars
- 1,085
- Forks
- 26
- Open issues + pull requests
- 14
- License
- Unlicense
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-11-05T16:16:41.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-11-06T15:58:11.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: bash, cron, dram, email, humor, linux, meminfo, memory, monitoring, openai, parody, ram, ram-altman, sam-altman, sam-altman-openai, shell-script, sysadmin
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