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Microsoft admits 8GB RAM is fine for Windows 11, after years of pushing 16GB as the baseline
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this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2026
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That's just an example. Most websites are like this.
Yeah I know. Facebook is just extra terrible.
My coworker was making a browser extension recently and noticed that most of Facebook's frontend code is crazy bullshit designed to make it difficult for scrapers and bots to navigate the DOM.
The saddest part of it is that none of it is particularly effective, it just means they had to write 2 lines of code to grab the fields they wanted instead of 1, so all that's happened is Meta have made everything worse for everyone and burned an extra kajillion client-side CPU cycles worldwide, for almost no benefit.
I had to bump my virtual machine (with win11) for work up to 32gb, simply cause single firefox browser + slack was running out of 24gb after full day of work. Which consists out of opening google office suit like gmail\gsheet and web apps with some internal tools. What a cool world we living in.
I did all this on XP with 512MB of RAM (ok it wasn't online versions of excel, but more or less)
Yes, but your win XP doesn't have ms-access integration with policy control and constant antivirus background checks, is it? Clearly inferior OS then. /s
The only reason I had to move in VM everything, that was perfectly working on my local machine with arch — security's-team decision that all workers should have that ms plug in their ass. And surprise-surprise, guess where it doesn't work oob? On top of that, they proposed solution if you don't want to (can't) connect it to your windows/macos machine — use azure remote desktop. Which also doesn't work on linux despite using regular RDP — it specifically uses complicated token auth, that is not supported in any rdp linux software. Neat, eh? Honestly, if there were any better paying job (or any decent job at all) I would jump at first call.
Webslop apps sucks. Less functionality and written with react.
Does it work for most stuff, yeah. But it still sucks. Google sheets is tolerable but annoying.
Do I need all the extra crap in excel? No, but it’s a mature program and doesn’t really need new features and constant tweaks.