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8GB is not enough for electronification and for the even further enshittification on the web today. I would tend to agree that needing 16gb just to browse the

by wredue 3y ago

8GB is not enough for electronification and for the even further enshittification on the web today. I would tend to agree that needing 16gb just to browse the web is insane, but it’s where these apps are at right now and we should expect it to only get much much worse at an escalating rate.

shortrounddev2 3y ago
Plus not just the web itself, but all the web based products like slack
mulmen 3y ago
If enshitification expands to fill available RAM is Apple doing us a favor by offering less? Can a MacBook Pro+ with 4GB of RAM save the Internet? Is a 2GB Pro++ the machine of my dreams?
- binary132 3y ago
  I’m picking up what you’re putting down.
- wredue 3y ago
  I don’t think even Apple influence can possibly stave off software becoming worse faster than hardware is getting better.
  - mulmen 3y ago
    They killed Flash!