I was a banker mason for 10 years before going back to university, carving stone almost every day for years, I went vegan 5 years in and I didn't experience a sudden drop in energy, I made sure I was getting enough protein and adequate amounts of vitamins (especially b12) either through food groups of vitamins tablets.
Also after not eating beef I haven't lost any muscle mass, I may be crazy but I think big beef has been lying for decades.
I can speak from experience that content delivery is harder than storage. Companies like YouTube tackle the storage issue by having tiered storage levels. Trending content is stored on SSDs, new and often viewed content is stored on harddrives with a caching system similar to optane and archived storage (essentially old videos that very rarely get views) goes on tape storage. It's really cool, and it allows massive about of storage in a small space, it's costs alot to implement but because of the tape storage they essentially have "infinite" (it's not really infinite of course but it's a problem for next decade not this decade).
Actually the cost issues wouldn't be the storage it's self. Storage is pretty cheap, it's content delivery networks. YouTube is supported by being owned and run by one of the worlds larges content delivery networks. There's virtually no latency, videos play immediately.
Having millions (potentially billions in YouTube's case) of people accessing data at once is an immense challenge and YouTube perfected it pretty early on, that's part of why there's no competition.
Oh for sure, I remember buying my first SSD and booting windows in under 10 seconds and being like whaaaat.
I am starting to think maybe I am a ram hog.
It's not worth trying to understand windows ram usage, it will drive any same person insane. The laptop uses intel optane as it's main drive, which is slower than an SSD but much much lower latency so should actually be perfect for the job of being swap. But it shit the bed.
Tabs of what? Chromes ram usage is more of a meme than an actual ram issue, windows will only allow an application to use so much ram depending on ram availability
I'm not forgetting that, but it won't just clear that ram it will want to put it into swap, and depending on your storage speed that can slow tasks down. Making it quite stuttery.
Her laptop just wasn't having it, windows 11, windows was using 3.7gb ram took about 30 seconds for task manager to open. As soon as I upgraded the ram is was usable.
I checked for any surprising background services or anti virus software and there was nothing really
My girlfriends mum wanted to know why her laptop was slow... It was because HP thought that 4gb of ram is acceptable in 2022 (when the laptop was sold). Granted ram wasn't as cheap then as it is now... Still I paid £30 for a brand new 8gb DDR4 sodimm, there's not reason hp couldn't do that. It's annoying the corners these company cut.
That's because apple is a greedy grabby company who wants all your money. The easiest solution is to stop buying their products
I wouldn't say 4gb is usable for the average consumer. Using the assumption they're using windows 11 that'll eat 3.7 ish GB of ram just idling.
God could you imagine the security risks though, having a physical risk in a network, that would be fun. Limewire on steroids.