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[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 166 points 10 months ago

The extra space is for two Electron apps of your choice.

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 42 points 10 months ago

Let's start with one and see how it goes.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 30 points 10 months ago

discord and microsoft teams 😍

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[-] db2@lemmy.world 153 points 10 months ago

Just install Chrome or Firefox. Problem solved.

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 87 points 10 months ago
[-] dditty@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago

Yup I max out 32GB building librewolf from source

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[-] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 106 points 10 months ago

You've clearly never lived with a cat. Your metaphor is crushed by the Kitty Expansion Theory: No piece of furniture is large enough for a cat and any other additional being.

[-] bruhduh@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago
[-] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

Caching do indeed be like.

[-] kaboom36@ani.social 14 points 10 months ago

The kitty expansion theory is incomplete, any piece of furniture is large enough for both a cat and an additional being provided the additional being was there first

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[-] naught101@lemmy.world 77 points 10 months ago

The other 28GB is for running chrome

[-] myusernameis@lemmy.ca 13 points 10 months ago

Three whole tabs!!

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[-] teft@lemmy.world 56 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Just like the human eye can only register 60fps and no more, your computer can only register 4gb of RAM and no more. Anything more than that is just marketing.

Fucking /S since you clowns can't tell.

[-] Kelo@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

Human eye can't see more than 1080p anyway, so what's the point

[-] starman@programming.dev 17 points 10 months ago

It doesn't matter honestly, everyone knows humans can't see screens at all

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[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 50 points 10 months ago

Op doesn't run applications, just an os...

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[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 36 points 10 months ago

My 2010 arm board with 256MB ram running openmediavault and minidlna for music streaming. Still lots of RAM left.

[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 10 months ago

Just wait till all the browser tabs sit down, and need to swap to the floor.

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago

I genuinely can't imagine having more than 7 tabs open. I can barely keep track of that many. How do you do it, wisened mistrel of the woods?

[-] captainjaneway@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

For me it's a pattern of "Ctrl+t" to open a new tab and then I search "my interesting query". After that, I use "shift+tab" or "Ctrl+shift+tab" to navigate between tabs. Rinse and repeat until I get tired.

I don't like searching in my current tab because I don't want to lose the info I have.

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[-] TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

Current 4 year old laptop with 128GB of ECC RAM is wonderful and is used all the time with simulations, LLMs, ML modelling, and the real heavy lifter, Google Chrome.

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[-] umbraroze@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

About 10 years ago I was like "FINE, clearly 512MB of memory isn't enough to avoid swapping hell, I'll get 1 GB of extra memory." ...and that was that!

These days I'm like "4 GB on a single board computer? Oh that's fine. You may need that much to run a browser. And who's going to run a browser regularly on a SBC? ...oh I've done it a lot of times and it's... fine."

The thing I learned is that you can run a whole bunch of SHIT HOT server software on a system with less than a gigabyte of memory. The moment you run a web browser? FUCK ALL THAT.

And that's basically what I found out long ago. I had a laptop that had like 32 megs of memory. Could be a perfectly productive person with that. Emacs. Darcs. SSH over a weird USB Wi-Fi dongle. But running a web browser? Can't do Firefox. Opera kinda worked. Wouldn't work nowadays, no. But Emacs probably still would.

[-] kevincox@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago

It really depends on the quality of software you are running? A SMTP, IMAP, Mumble, Photoprism, Jellyfin, bittorrent, Tor, Subsonic compatible server, who even remembers what else? Fine. One small Minecraft world? Boom you're dead.

[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 23 points 10 months ago

I have 32GB and regularly fill both that and my swap space to the point where my system freezes up and i have to restart.

i am quite tabby though. And vscode has become quite a memory hog and i usually have several of those open too as i work across different projects

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[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

I remember building my gaming machine in 2008 and put 4GB (2x2) in, then RAM prices tanked 6 months later so I added another 4GB. I remember having lots of conversations where I was like "yeah, 8GB is over kill" but what I didn't expect is that it was such overkill that when I built my next machine in 2012, I still only put 8GB on it.

It wasn't until 2019 that I built a machine and put 16GB in it. I ran on 8GB for over a decade. Pretty impressive for gaming.

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[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The other day I got a Mini PC to use as a home server (including as media server with Kodi).

It has 8GB of RAM, came with some Windows (10 or 11), didn't even try it and wiped it out, put Lubunto on it and a bunch of services along with Kodi.

Even though it's running X in order to have Kodi there and Firefox is open and everything, it's using slightly over 2GB of RAM.

I keep wanting to upgrade it to 16 GB, because, you know, I just like mucking about with hardware and there's the whole new toy feeling, but I look at the memory usage and just can't bring myself around to do it just for fun, as it would be a completelly useless upgrade and not even bright eyed uuh, shinny me can convince adult me to waste 60 bucks on something so utterly completelly useless.

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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Hmm. But have you tried it with second and third linuxes? What about eightses?

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 10 months ago

He doesn't even know about second Linux...

[-] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 10 months ago

Much like a cat can stretch out and somehow occupy an entire queen-sized bed, Linux will happily cache your file system as long as there is available memory.

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[-] PseudorandomNoise@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

This is my server and about 28GB sits unused. Just in case I might want to run a new VM or something... 🤣

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[-] knexcar@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

Someone clearly doesn’t play Cities: Skylines with mods

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[-] NutWrench@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

If that picture was of a Windows installation, Windows would be a Sumo Wrestler instead of a kitten.

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[-] Crow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 10 months ago

4GB? I think you should clean up a little, do a like debloating

[-] Doolbs@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

I actually run 32GB on my desktop with Mint. I run 12GB on my laptop with Mint. Both of these have Celeron CPUs.

I love it.

[-] eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws 14 points 10 months ago
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[-] devfuuu@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Me using jvm based software for work and it barely being enough...

[-] sudo@programming.dev 13 points 10 months ago

Running and LSP on a monorepo will destroy those 4gigs no problem.

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[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The cat is the Rimworld mod with a hefty memory leak yesterday. 32 GB was full in seconds. But it gave me enough time to find the culprit and kill Rimworld without trashing my session every time.

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[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago

When I start editing in Davinci Resolve....well, that's why I went from 32 to 64 a few years ago.

[-] snowadv@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago

Android studio: *big fat cat in the middle of the sofa"

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[-] SuperIce@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

"Free" memory is actually usually used for cache. So instead of waiting to get data from the disk, the system can just read it directly from RAM after the first access. The more RAM you have, the more free space you'll have to use for cache. My machine often has over 20GB of RAM used as cache. You can see this with free -m. IIRC both Gnome and KDE's system managers also show that now.

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago

I installed 64gb of ram on my gaming laptop and Chrome took all of it.

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