Yeah, a lot of programs are just fucking inefficient.
I’ve recently been looking around my system to see what’s eating my RAM. Mullvad VPN eats around 500MiB because the GUI is using Electron…
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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 days agoFound the Chromium dev!
But seriously, I’ve got an old laptop still in use and that’s getting along fine on 4 GB. Firefox, KDE, Libre Office, background tasks, some light gaming, no problem.
Usually good programs only take lots of memory when it’s available.
testaccount789@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
woelkchen@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Let me guess: That old laptop has a swap file or partition?
If you dislike Android so much, get commerce.jolla.com/…/jolla-phone-october-2026 Should pair well with your new >1000 Euro Steam Machine.
watson387@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
I would definitely buy a Jolla Phone or it would work in the US.
JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
I might buy it when they actually promised verified boot of some kind.
Also: are they still offering subscriptions instead of selling the os like they’re supposed to?
I really want to like this platform, but the security functions (especially for evil maid) are really important with smartphones.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It should work there. The problem for you would be no direct shipping to the US.