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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by pdhborges on Saturday June 20, 2026 @12:55PM (#48610766)
How come I have never seen this tradeoff work in practice?
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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by t-writescode on Saturday June 20, 2026 @01:41PM (#48611212)
You see it all the time in Slack, Discord and so on.

Isn’t VS Code an Electron app? Or just its predecessor?

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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by LtWorf on Sunday June 21, 2026 @04:16AM (#48616776)
But… everyone thinks those are awful as well
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