Windows 11 apps like Discord, WhatsApp, and Teams now use 1 to 4GB of RAM because they are web apps and the rising RAM prices make it worse.
  • Windows Latest discovered Discord and other Chromium and Electron-based applications with high RAM usage
  • RAM usage spikes from 1GB to 4GB on Discord both in and out of voice chat
  • kalpol@lemmy.caEnglish
    15·
    12 hours ago

    And here I am resurrecting Dell laptops from 2010 with 1.5gb DDR RAM and Debian

    • mcv@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10·
      11 hours ago

      I remember when they changed the backronym for Emacs from “Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping” to Eighty. Megabytes. Or when a Netscape developer was proud to overtake that memory use.

      What’s the point of more RAM and faster processors if we just make applications that much less efficient?

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
        5·
        10 hours ago

        “unused ram is wasted ram”

        yeah yeah yeah, great. but all you motherfuckers did that and i’m fucking out of ram.

        • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          3·
          8 hours ago

          I want to run more than 1 process thanks. So fuck off with you trying to eat 3GB to render a bit of text.