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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by benbristow on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @10:06PM (#16541977)
Use a machine with more RAM then. If your machine doesn't have at least 8GB of RAM then you're doing it wrong.
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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by arbie on Thursday March 08, 2018 @12:10PM (#16545778)
I can't tell if you are being serious.

RAM prices have plateaued due to production shortages in the past few years, and many (high-volume) $200 laptops/Chromebooks do not come with 8GB of RAM.

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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by stordoff on Thursday March 08, 2018 @07:17PM (#16548867)
Regardless of how much RAM you have, 800MB for a chat app is ridiculous. If every common utility started using so much RAM, "[u]se a machine with more RAM" stops being viable - you can only cram so much RAM in current machines, and if you start peeling off a couple of GB because you need to run more than one chat client that's a huge loss.
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