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Re:An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU u... by freeone3000 on Sunday July 18, 2021 @05:20PM (#27876782)
Web browsing isn't a light activity anymore. Web pages consume more memory and more CPU than my text editor
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Re:An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU u... by mgerullis on Monday July 19, 2021 @02:41AM (#27879880)
Has there been a time in history where web browsing was lighter than text editing, ever?
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Re:An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU u... by exikyut on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @02:05PM (#27897083)
No, but there is now, "thanks" to Electron :P

More specifically, HN would use less RAM than VSC would to open a .txt file.

Eh, not bad. not good; we don't know what the new goalpost positions mean yet.

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Re:An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU u... by skavi on Sunday July 18, 2021 @06:51PM (#27877401)
That’s why I specified “light web browsing”.
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