Age: A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool

Re:Age: A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool by StavrosK on Saturday December 28, 2019 @05:30AM (#21898212)

I think that people who say this think "yeah, running one Electron app is no problem". The problem comes when everything is Electron and now, like the ocean, you have no memory.

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Re:Age: A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool by Dylan16807 on Saturday December 28, 2019 @06:21AM (#21898365)

You don't need everything open at once.

And you can fit a whole lot of Electron apps into an extra 8 or 16GB.

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Re:Age: A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool by bscphil on Saturday December 28, 2019 @10:32AM (#21899361)

The newest baseline Dell XPS 13 (not even Inspiron) comes with 4 GB of memory by default. The very idea of an extra 8 GB is hilarious because manufacturers haven't kept up with the times (my laptop purchased 9 years ago had 8 GB), and by extension the median consumer's laptop hasn't either. Nobody has an "extra" 8 GB outside of people with the money to just unthinkingly buy the top of the line model or developers who know what they're doing.

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Re:Age: A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool by Dylan16807 on Saturday December 28, 2019 @01:01PM (#21900471)

We're talking about buying extra memory, not defaults. And while an XPS 13 is trying to be a macbook, on an XPS 15 you just pop open the back cover and shove more memory into it.

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Re:Age: A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool by dependenttypes on Saturday December 28, 2019 @02:10PM (#21900966)

Sadly you do need a lot of things (such as chat programs, an email client, a browser, and potentially an editor) open at once.

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