dump a pregant cow next to the kitten labeled "Chromium"
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I see you don't run electron app in flatpaks :)
haha. I have 32GB of RAM in my server, and even though I run a LOT of stuff, it rarely gets past 6 or 7GB used
I cried today b/c although I knew my mistake, I accidentally sat upon my balls just as I was sitting down to sort through my missteps & reinstall w/ a refreshed and more educated approach. Karma was doing its thing with me today. I hope that I am paying it forward because I can’t honestly think of any hurt I may have caused to warrant such a thing upon me. Now, I don’t know why I’m crying. Probably seen enough trailers for that new E.T. Movie w/ Jared Goff.
Don't forget to allocate the rest to Firefox, and your swap as well since that's still not enough
You can still use Chrome in Linux (my wife uses them together on her laptop).
Sitting on a cool 64, over here.
I see what you did there.
Why are you crying, Windows user?
Same reason as everyone else who waited to upgrade.
elon musk inherited an emerald minefrom his father, but your child will inherit 32 full gigabytes of ram
Bold of u to assume any of us can afford kids in the first place lol. Well, at least if u wanna raise them properly.
all that ram is for my many virtual machines i planned to run and never did because i didn't actually get any practical use out of them
Containerize everything
Unfortunately I can't run windows 7 in a docker container for the lickable aero theme and nostalgia. The KDE aero themes just don't feel the same either. Lots of subtle things missing.
Actually...
holy shit
wait a minute this docker container is just running qemu and a web-based vnc client >:/
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Laughs in one year old 128GB RAM on fedora Linux.
That's a bit small... for disk space 😂😂😂😂😂
You can actually do a lot of stuff with this and no disk at all , just having a 500MB NFS over nas or some 2010 old laptop 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Running AI locally?
Nope. Running a windows guest for legacy development (50GB for few bigger visual studio projects and other related apps) then Rider, Android Studio, IntelliJ, podman and other apps native on Linux, often switching between them. 128GB is a bit much even for this, but it is never bad to have same free space just in case. The only downside is that I bought 4 DDR5 modules only to later find out that they put a break on speed as AMD really prefers 2 of them.
50 GB in memory for a visual studio/programming project being a bigger project seems like rather an understatement, unless you're working on machine learning, simulations, or something of that nature.
Meanwhile, the latest macOS update took away 20% of my battery life and added 15% of ram usage, just because, while the battery life of my Linux laptop is actually getting better with updates.
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Dude's filthy rich. Wish I had gone with the upgrade I planned to do last fall.
holy crap tell me about it.
The server this Lemmy instance is on was bought in August 2024 with 512G ram. I bought another 8x 64G in April 2025 for £610. That is ~£75 a stick of 64G server ram.
I just bought another server to go along side this and was originally planning to buy the same RAM again. It is now £500 per stick. So I've had to instead donate the extra RAM I bought last year to the new ram-less server.
So that's £75 -> £500. Absolutely ridiculous. Would have cost me £8000 in RAM when the rest of the server was ~£2k.
Back in 2021 I accidentally bought a 64 GB kit rather than the 32 GB one I intended to. No regrets now but really felt like an excess back then.
Ah the times when you could accidentally buy twice as much RAM.
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just wait until you need to edit some xml in android studio
And don't you dare compile kotlin and run on emulator while you use Chrome to read stack overflow. Those 128Gb ram from that guy are going to be short.
We're not lol, why do you think the users of other OSs envy you? It's not hard to switch.
Now launch one (1) web browser and watch an elephant drop on your sofa.
The OS is no longer relevant to memory usage, really, not in the way it used to be. The amount of memory required for a usable desktop is peanuts compared to the amount required to run a few web-apps.
One of the many reasons why we need a new and better browser without all the bloat.
That's half the problem, the sites are the other.
My guess is that 90% of the growth in browser bloat is to support bloated websites.
These days websites can be games, drawing applications, video players, etc. As a result, browsers have basically become operating systems. In addition, the browsers try to support even the most horribly written websites, but that means more bloat in the browser. Meanwhile faster computers mean that people developing websites are just doing more and more javascript, more and more animation, more and more mouse tracking, etc.
If you have an old device with an old browser, a lot of modern websites are completely unusable. I have an old iPad that's too old to update, and it's not actually possible to use browse Github anymore. It just ends up with javascript elements on the page that never finish loading. And Github isn't some site thrown together by someone vibe-coding their first website or something.
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The way it should be. If it were Windows you'd have a massive bloated fat cat that can't breathe taking up almost the entire sofa.
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I have 32 gigs and Windows 10 doesn't actually use too much RAM. Around 4 GB, but still quite a lot. Still nothing to how much free RAM I have though.
And here I am with a budget 12 GB RAM phone, that will turn out to be flagship tier due to the RAM crisis. Holy fuck.
We were so spoiled, we didn't even know what we had.
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