• HowManyNimons@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    6 months ago

    You’ve clearly never lived with a cat. Your metaphor is crushed by the Kitty Expansion Theory: No piece of furniture is large enough for a cat and any other additional being.

  • teft@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    6 months ago

    Just like the human eye can only register 60fps and no more, your computer can only register 4gb of RAM and no more. Anything more than that is just marketing.

    Fucking /S since you clowns can’t tell.

      • refalo@programming.dev
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        6 months ago

        horrible take IMO. firefox is using 12GB for me right now, but you have no idea how many or what kind of tabs either of us have, which makes all the difference to the point your comment has no value whatsoever.

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    6 months ago

    My 2010 arm board with 256MB ram running openmediavault and minidlna for music streaming. Still lots of RAM left.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    6 months ago

    If that picture was of a Windows installation, Windows would be a Sumo Wrestler instead of a kitten.

  • xia@lemmy.sdf.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    6 months ago

    Just wait till all the browser tabs sit down, and need to swap to the floor.

    • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      6 months ago

      I genuinely can’t imagine having more than 7 tabs open. I can barely keep track of that many. How do you do it, wisened mistrel of the woods?

      • Captain Janeway@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        6 months ago

        For me it’s a pattern of “Ctrl+t” to open a new tab and then I search “my interesting query”. After that, I use “shift+tab” or “Ctrl+shift+tab” to navigate between tabs. Rinse and repeat until I get tired.

        I don’t like searching in my current tab because I don’t want to lose the info I have.

  • umbraroze@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    6 months ago

    About 10 years ago I was like “FINE, clearly 512MB of memory isn’t enough to avoid swapping hell, I’ll get 1 GB of extra memory.” …and that was that!

    These days I’m like “4 GB on a single board computer? Oh that’s fine. You may need that much to run a browser. And who’s going to run a browser regularly on a SBC? …oh I’ve done it a lot of times and it’s… fine.”

    The thing I learned is that you can run a whole bunch of SHIT HOT server software on a system with less than a gigabyte of memory. The moment you run a web browser? FUCK ALL THAT.

    And that’s basically what I found out long ago. I had a laptop that had like 32 megs of memory. Could be a perfectly productive person with that. Emacs. Darcs. SSH over a weird USB Wi-Fi dongle. But running a web browser? Can’t do Firefox. Opera kinda worked. Wouldn’t work nowadays, no. But Emacs probably still would.

    • CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      6 months ago

      I genuinely don’t know how people are having their web browser use so much ram. How many tabs do you have open? Even at work where I run a commercial loan origination system and our core customer system in a web browser, at most I’ll have 15-20 tabs open. I don’t know how people are having dozens and dozens of tabs open that they’re using 64 gb of RAM.

  • TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    6 months ago

    Current 4 year old laptop with 128GB of ECC RAM is wonderful and is used all the time with simulations, LLMs, ML modelling, and the real heavy lifter, Google Chrome.