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Re:When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop by jrockway on Monday July 22, 2019 @04:08PM (#20501827)
Low end desktops come with a gig of RAM. A $35 Raspberry Pi is what "low end" really is.

While 250MB is a big chunk... I think it's actually okay, even in this extreme case.

Re:When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop by phponpcp on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @12:14PM (#20507857)
The new RPi has like 4gb of RAM tho
Re:When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop by jrockway on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @06:46PM (#20510923)
At the highest price tier, yes.