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[–] 97 points 6 months ago (23 children)

Dude's filthy rich. Wish I had gone with the upgrade I planned to do last fall.

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  • [–] 81 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    Back in 2021 I accidentally bought a 64 GB kit rather than the 32 GB one I intended to. No regrets now but really felt like an excess back then.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago* (7 children)

    64 still feels like excess on a Linux machine... But I got mine back in like 2023-2024 so I got lucky

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Once you start opening programs your OS is basically negligible.

    Sure windows might use 5 gigs of ram on startup. But when you’ve got 100 tabs open using 20 gigs of ram the 3 vs 5 gigs is a drop in the bucket.

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

    holy crap tell me about it.

    The server this Lemmy instance is on was bought in August 2024 with 512G ram. I bought another 8x 64G in April 2025 for £610. That is ~£75 a stick of 64G server ram.

    I just bought another server to go along side this and was originally planning to buy the same RAM again. It is now £500 per stick. So I've had to instead donate the extra RAM I bought last year to the new ram-less server.

    So that's £75 -> £500. Absolutely ridiculous. Would have cost me £8000 in RAM when the rest of the server was ~£2k.

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    Indeed. Dude my main pc is just a modest last gen r7 32G with decent gpu. And I'm glad I pulled the trigger for the 16g upgrade last year.

    Now I don't personally believe in higher being, but I'll be lying if I'm not nervous everytime I power up the thing. If anything breaks even if I go a tier cheaper I couldn't afford the replacement.

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    [–] 70 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    Now add a German Shepherd labelled "Firefox" 😝

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    [–] 53 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    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

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    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.

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

    elon musk inherited an emerald minefrom his father, but your child will inherit 32 full gigabytes of ram

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    [–] 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 30 points 6 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 27 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Laughs in one year old 128GB RAM on fedora Linux.

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    [–] 27 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    dump a pregant cow next to the kitten labeled "Chromium"

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    [–] 21 points 6 months ago

    Don't forget to allocate the rest to Firefox, and your swap as well since that's still not enough

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    One of the many reasons why we need a new and better browser without all the bloat.

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    [–] 18 points 6 months ago

    I see you don't run electron app in flatpaks :)

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  • [+] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)
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    [–] 14 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The rest of the couch is my podman services

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    [–] 12 points 6 months ago

    Why are you crying, Windows user?

    Same reason as everyone else who waited to upgrade.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    Me with ZFS root:

    D:

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  • [+] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    32 gigs is quite a bit of a show off in these trying times...

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    [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The way it should be. If it were Windows you'd have a massive bloated fat cat that can't breathe taking up almost the entire sofa.

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    [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Tbh if you run qbittorrent you can manually give it as much as you got in the settings.

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    [+] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
    [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    IntelliJ has entered the chat.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Haven't had memory issues on my Windows 11 laptop so I don't check how much is free. On the other hand, free disk space is jumping between 0 and 10 GB without notification as to what appears or disappears. This is annoyingly unreliable because the space often gets closer to 0 right at the time when I need to Syncthing files with others.

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