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I've actively started to use outlook and teams through chrome to free up some of my ram, easily saves 3-4gb. It's gotten ridiculous how much ram basic tools are

by dahcryn 7mo ago

I've actively started to use outlook and teams through chrome to free up some of my ram, easily saves 3-4gb. It's gotten ridiculous how much ram basic tools are using, leaving nothing for doing actually real work

christophilus 7mo ago
People get on me all the time about not installing programs on my computer. I run everything in the browser, if I can. Partly so I can kill it properly without it misbehaving, and partly because I don't trust their software at all. Zoom, Slack, Gmail, etc-- if I can run it in the browser, then that's the only way I'll run it.
- zuhsetaqi 7mo ago
  Same for me on mobile. I don’t install the Amazon app I just use the browser where I can limit tracking and only log in when actually buying something.
emeril 7mo ago
ive found the web versions use a similar amount of memory and have fewer features my issue is that my company won't issue laptops with more than 16 gbs of ram guess i'm not virtualizing anything...
dgxyz 7mo ago
Every app ships with its own isolated web browser now. That idea needs to die. Back to native apps without bloated toolkits!
- tracker1 7mo ago
  Or at least improving the shared browser ui / chromeless experience for "app" installs. I think that Tauri is pretty reasonable as well, weak link being Linux currently.
  - dgxyz 7mo ago
    No fuck the browser. It's just layers of shit on shit on shit. Mail.app is sitting here using 137Mb of RAM. Outlook 1270Mb.
    - tracker1 7mo ago
      And the likes of Zed save so much ram over VS Code... oh, wait...
      - dgxyz 7mo ago
        I use vim for everything so I have no idea. My main machine has 16Gb of RAM and I don't think I've ever seen it go over 4Gb and that was when I had a 200gb mmap'ed sparse array.
        tracker1 7mo ago
        On my personal desktop, I have 96gb... I've never gone over 70 or so.. but that was with a lot of services running a fairly complex system with data loaded locally. I generally don't five a f*ck about the ram I'm using day to day. I'll run various updates and reboot between once a month and once a quarter.

by dahcryn 7mo ago

christophilus 7mo ago

People get on me all the time about not installing programs on my computer. I run everything in the browser, if I can. Partly so I can kill it properly without it misbehaving, and partly because I don't trust their software at all. Zoom, Slack, Gmail, etc-- if I can run it in the browser, then that's the only way I'll run it.

zuhsetaqi 7mo ago
Same for me on mobile. I don’t install the Amazon app I just use the browser where I can limit tracking and only log in when actually buying something.

emeril 7mo ago

ive found the web versions use a similar amount of memory and have fewer features my issue is that my company won't issue laptops with more than 16 gbs of ram guess i'm not virtualizing anything...

dgxyz 7mo ago

Every app ships with its own isolated web browser now. That idea needs to die. Back to native apps without bloated toolkits!

tracker1 7mo ago
Or at least improving the shared browser ui / chromeless experience for "app" installs. I think that Tauri is pretty reasonable as well, weak link being Linux currently.
- dgxyz 7mo ago
  No fuck the browser. It's just layers of shit on shit on shit. Mail.app is sitting here using 137Mb of RAM. Outlook 1270Mb.
  - tracker1 7mo ago
    And the likes of Zed save so much ram over VS Code... oh, wait...
    - dgxyz 7mo ago
      I use vim for everything so I have no idea. My main machine has 16Gb of RAM and I don't think I've ever seen it go over 4Gb and that was when I had a 200gb mmap'ed sparse array.
      - tracker1 7mo ago
        On my personal desktop, I have 96gb... I've never gone over 70 or so.. but that was with a lot of services running a fairly complex system with data loaded locally. I generally don't five a f*ck about the ram I'm using day to day. I'll run various updates and reboot between once a month and once a quarter.