Don’t get me wrong, having large amounts of RAM and lots of CPU muscle has made software terribly inefficient. An everyday user shouldn’t have to have more than 8-16 GB and perhaps 4 cores to get by. That said, wtf are we even talking about here? The solution to too little RAM is making more or using less. Memory is a commodity, not a privilige.
I’m not sure if the average Joe should get by with only 8-16 GB of RAM. This is only the case today because we off-loaded so much of our applications to the Cloud.
If we care about running our applications with our own devices and reclaim the ownership of our data we should advocate to be able to get as much RAM we want.
That is true of course, all I meant to say is that using a web browser shouldn’t demand more than 8 GB of RAM. On Linux, with zswap, you can probably get away with it. On Windows? Probably a horrible experience (the persistent horrors of Windows aside).
PC architecture in general is pretty shitty for RAM use. OS takes a load, browsers take a load, games seem to want RAM on the GPU backed up by RAM on your motherboard, every driver and utility comes with it’s own browser just to display a few buttons.
It’s been too wasteful for too long, assuming the prices would always go down so what’s a gig here and there. Well now they’re going up, so everyone is fucked.
Don’t get me wrong, having large amounts of RAM and lots of CPU muscle has made software terribly inefficient. An everyday user shouldn’t have to have more than 8-16 GB and perhaps 4 cores to get by. That said, wtf are we even talking about here? The solution to too little RAM is making more or using less. Memory is a commodity, not a privilige.
i would argue that os creep is a problem. 2-4 gb should be more than enough for 99.9% of usage.
gaming, or computational demanding jobs, need more. but for the majority of people, if it wasn’t for OS creep, 2-4 gb is enough
I’m not sure if the average Joe should get by with only 8-16 GB of RAM. This is only the case today because we off-loaded so much of our applications to the Cloud.
If we care about running our applications with our own devices and reclaim the ownership of our data we should advocate to be able to get as much RAM we want.
That is true of course, all I meant to say is that using a web browser shouldn’t demand more than 8 GB of RAM. On Linux, with zswap, you can probably get away with it. On Windows? Probably a horrible experience (the persistent horrors of Windows aside).
PC architecture in general is pretty shitty for RAM use. OS takes a load, browsers take a load, games seem to want RAM on the GPU backed up by RAM on your motherboard, every driver and utility comes with it’s own browser just to display a few buttons.
It’s been too wasteful for too long, assuming the prices would always go down so what’s a gig here and there. Well now they’re going up, so everyone is fucked.