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Microsoft admits 8GB RAM is fine for Windows 11, after years of pushing 16GB as the baseline (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] 28 points 2 months ago (10 children)

8GB isn't enough for 3 facebook tabs, regardless of how efficient the underlying OS is.

I'm glad we're in a spot where we stop buying RAM. It means we stop giving them headroom.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Or you can stop using Facebook.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    That's just an example. Most websites are like this.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Yeah I know. Facebook is just extra terrible.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    My coworker was making a browser extension recently and noticed that most of Facebook's frontend code is crazy bullshit designed to make it difficult for scrapers and bots to navigate the DOM.

    The saddest part of it is that none of it is particularly effective, it just means they had to write 2 lines of code to grab the fields they wanted instead of 1, so all that's happened is Meta have made everything worse for everyone and burned an extra kajillion client-side CPU cycles worldwide, for almost no benefit.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Webslop apps sucks. Less functionality and written with react.

    Does it work for most stuff, yeah. But it still sucks. Google sheets is tolerable but annoying.

    Do I need all the extra crap in excel? No, but it’s a mature program and doesn’t really need new features and constant tweaks.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    I did all this on XP with 512MB of RAM (ok it wasn't online versions of excel, but more or less)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    It's just incredible how what I used as a kid is like not even booting an OS anymore and what a system requires to idle would be considered NASA-levels of RAM back then. I mean sixteen GIGA bytes? You is joking.

    Really seems like developers (yeah there's execs and middle managers and the whole business that comes along with them) just let everything bloat to high heavens once hardware became more readily available

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    It’s crazy, 8GB on a Windows 10 machine works stellar for basic use, which is wild. I have a 13 year old laptop (admittedly high end when it came out, a pretty crazy model for under 1k USD… but it’s super old now!)

    I slapped a (well, used to be) super cheap SSD in it and installed W10 and Pop!_OS. It performs similarity to my more modern machines that have 16 or 32GB of faster RAM when it comes to everyday stuff like web browsing, streaming HD video, and image editing. On Linux AND on Windows 10! Firefox and its forks have zero issue with 10, 20 tabs or more, including another browser window with 1080p video playing.

    I can’t speak for the Facebooks and the TikToks and the chromes, since I don’t use any of those.

    Caveat, OOSU10 and ClassicShell are on W10, and some other various small tweaks. But it runs totally fine and the laptop came with Windows 8!

    I’ll never touch W11, it’s awful.

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