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Paying for RAM and having it sit around doing nothing is stupid.
by bslaq 1y ago
Paying for RAM and having it sit around doing nothing is stupid.
- vachina 1y agoThis is why inflation is rampant.
- 201984 1y agoIt's not doing nothing. It's caching frequently accessed files on my filesystem, which generally speeds everything up especially with HDDs. Why should someone instead waste that on a needlessly bloated music player?
- CyberDildonics 1y agoPaying for RAM because a dozen different programs can't be bothered to make user focused software is stupid.
- bigstrat2003 1y agoThat choice is for me, the user, to make. App developers don't get to make it for me. If apps are smaller, then I can use that memory to run more apps, cache things, etc.
- wredcoll 1y agoSo choose not to use the app, dear god this conversation is awful.
- OptionX 1y agoSo choose not to partake the discussion, dear god this conversation is awful.
- bigstrat2003 1y agoI do. The instant I saw it uses Electron, I decided the app wasn't for me and closed the tab. But why would that mean I shouldn't participate in a discussion (which I didn't even start myself) on whether the excessive RAM usage is ok?
- treyd 1y agoThis is true for autoscaling VMs which run one application and when underutilized the load is reconsolidated. It is NOT true for desktops which run different applications all the time, the user often switches between them, and where uncommitted memory is automatically used by the kernel as disk cache space.