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Re:RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP... by dgxyz on Thursday February 26, 2026 @11:23AM (#47168174)
No fuck the browser. It's just layers of shit on shit on shit.

Mail.app is sitting here using 137Mb of RAM. Outlook 1270Mb.

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Re:RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP... by tracker1 on Thursday February 26, 2026 @11:26AM (#47168231)
And the likes of Zed save so much ram over VS Code... oh, wait...
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Re:RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP... by dgxyz on Thursday February 26, 2026 @11:33AM (#47168318)
I use vim for everything so I have no idea.

My main machine has 16Gb of RAM and I don't think I've ever seen it go over 4Gb and that was when I had a 200gb mmap'ed sparse array.

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Re:RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP... by tracker1 on Thursday February 26, 2026 @11:56AM (#47168659)
On my personal desktop, I have 96gb... I've never gone over 70 or so.. but that was with a lot of services running a fairly complex system with data loaded locally. I generally don't five a f*ck about the ram I'm using day to day. I'll run various updates and reboot between once a month and once a quarter.
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