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    [–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I have no idea how people use so much RAM. I use a 16 GB machine for work and it runs perfectly. For the majority of the time I'm well below 8GB. And I do use Electron apps.

    Of course, I'm aware of the possible uses demanding more than 16 GB but I can't believe this would be the case for a majority of the people.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    The people who installed toolbars until half their screen was full are still around. Just now they keep 100 tabs open instead

    [–] Valmond 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    I have tons of firefox tabs open, even on my telephone. I'm quite sure they just get unloaded /not loaded if not used?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

    Yes, Firefox does that

    [–] kameecoding 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    I keep tabs open just in case I need it later, definitely faster to try to find right tab across 4 windows with 20 tabs each than just opening the site when I need it again

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Yeah, but those shouldn't really influence memory usage too much unless actively used, right? I'm pretty sure browsers unload unused tabs from memory.

    I myself sometimes use quite a lot of tabs, although I have to admit it's definitely not close to 80 tabs open at all times.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

    Some bad browsers don't have automatic tab hibernation and you gotta install extensions for it.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    With just a web browser, teams, and visual studio open my work machine sits at 95% usage of 16gb. Half the time my compiles can't even finish without getting axed by the oom killer. SSMS is a hog too, I often have to close half my stuff to get to work right.

    Supposed to be getting an upgrade but my company is taking their sweet time.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

    Right! IDE is probably the missing piece. I use Neovim exclusively so I didn't even think about this.