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Yeah, how dare those pesky businesses exist and try to make money.

... you can install apps on Mac without going through the App Store.

You could not be farther from the truth. Gitlab is an improvement on Github in every way, they offer a suite of features that Github doesn't have that are only available through third party connections.

Gitlab is not a Github clone.

You're paying for iTunes Match, which is a different service than Apple Music.

I used to work stock at a bunch of retail stores for a decade and could see what percentage the markup was. It was almost never above 20%, and usually closer to 3-5%.

lol, not sure why I'd want to engage with someone who thinks stealing is fine.

Read all the other comments.

Your comment isn't obvious as to which side you're on, so I'll repeat the same thing just in case:

Not paying for the right to use something is theft of goods and services.

You're not paying for the right to use something. That is theft of goods and services.

Yes... it is. You're not paying for the right to use something. That is theft of goods and services.

I can't believe I have to say this to an adult, but:

No, that does not mean you can steal.

What I was seeing was the same in both cases. Firefox would be using the same amount of RAM either running by itself or alongside Ableton Live (and the performance of Ableton Live would suffer).

OP here on this comment chain.

I'm a front end and back end developer that uses multiple libraries and tech stacks and need to find answers to stuff immediately. I leave them open as a resource while I'm working, which may be on multiple things at once. In addition, I have mail, messaging, music, and other work-related things open in the browser.

It's really one of the only features that matters.

I was having the exact same issues on Twitch allll the time on FF on Mac. I haven't since switching to Vivaldi, probably have frozen two or 3 times since.

> Frankly I don’t get what the complaints about RAM usage are all about.

Sure, let me just go download some more RAM. It's not like it's a finite resource in my machine or anything.

I'm an avid, avid, avid Firefox user, but I switched to Vivaldi last month after doing a comparison of RAM load with the same exact open tabs and seeing a difference of:

Firefox sitting at 12 gigs Vivaldi sitting at 5 gigs

This is on MacOS, so mileage may vary and all that, but with the same tabs open, why would there be such a difference?

Edit: And there's no difference in the plugins. I use the same plugins on both browsers: password manager, uBlock Origin, React dev tools, and Redux dev tools and that's it.

The Epic Store is not Windows only. I run it, and games from the Epic Store on my Macbook Pro.

I work in an open office with 5 other programmers around, and none of us are bothered by each other's mechanical keyboards. We have a mix of Cherry Blues and Browns. We all agree that it's the least annoying thing about our open office.

It's a shared cultural thing unique to each company, no need to cast a blanket statement.

Apps and Games, genius.

And you should not tell people what they should do with their work and IP. If they chose GNU, they chose GNU, and they have their reasons, deal with it.