Now add a German Shepherd labelled “Firefox” 😝
Firefox is very heavy, I’m enjoying using its friends Brave or Falkon
“Friends”
That was a more lengthy read than I expected, but rightfully so. Thanks for the link, long due read why Brave’s stunts are constantly ringing alarm bells.
both chromium based :(
konqueror/khtml is the real alternative
My browser tab collection doesn’t help.
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 >:/
Have you tried aerothemeplasma?
There’s still time.
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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.
Then 24 gigs*
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.
amen brother
I see what you did there.
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 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
dump a pregant cow next to the kitten labeled “Chromium”
yeah. I want to think Firefox is a bit better 😅
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.
And the third half is bad math
The fourth half is caching
The fifth is your mom.
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.
Honestly, the whole model of "you can customize every detail of your page (and not the user) but you also have to implement basic accessibility and consider screen resolution/orientation, reduced-motion, prefers-color-scheme, etc., etc.), for each and every single webpage, is imho inherently broken.
The sad thing is, they could in most things (except reduced/animations) just not do that and the browser does accessibility & stuff for you and you have a lightweight site. But that’s not how businesses (and developer curiosity) work. Also, progressive enhancement instead of graceful degradation most don’t do.
Btw, to the Indieweb: you don’t have to define a text or background color: browser does that already. And you have to care for prefers-color-scheme now. Please keep CSS to layouting.
I am skeptical that the browser is the problem.
Well, no, but the amount of browser-based apps due to their convinience in development is stupid.
Yes
unless you’re using older, more limited hardware in which case you kinda need the OS to not use a shitton of resources so you can actually run programs that do.
i never upgraded the RAM in my thinkpad X230T past 4 GB because on linux with TDE i genuinely don’t need to. i can open multiple instances of waterfox and vivaldi and do a digital painting in krita all at the same time without having to worry about OOM at all.
the difference is night and day compared to trying to do the same on windows or even linux with a heavyweight DE, under which i can maybe get a few tabs open in a single browser before it just freezes.
Don’t forget to allocate the rest to Firefox, and your swap as well since that’s still not enough
I see you don’t run electron app in flatpaks :)
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.
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what is?
Right, short-circuited Android Studio with Atom, my bad.
The rest of the couch is my podman services
The rest of the couch is my podman services
as everything should be
Me with ZFS root:
D:
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.
Why are you crying, Windows user?
Same reason as everyone else who waited to upgrade.
