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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by protocolture on Thursday November 05, 2026 @07:07PM (#50386396)
Slack used to be a sizable portion of my old business stack on an 8GB X1 Carbon.

Windows doesnt leave you a lot of change from 8GB these days.

I used to have issues as Firefox would open a tab, cap out my available memory and 3cx would start stuttering causing voice issues.

The solution was to move to a carbon with 32GB RAM, but like, I should probably expect more out of Windows/Slack/3CX/Firefox in the first place. Feeding the beast more RAM is no longer a financially viable alternative for a lot of people.

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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by stasomatic on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:53AM (#50393905)
The software bloat isn't ever going to go away. If you had 512 GB of RAM, would you care? We need cheap RAM.
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