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+# sysinfo
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+Measures real CPU usage by reading `/proc/stat` twice, using a delay of 500ms.
+Temperature read from `/sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/temp1_input`.
+RAM usage read from `/proc/meminfo` (MemAvailable, MemTotal).