People being forced to run windows 11 with 8gb ram is going to be hilarious.
Anon time travels
Submitted 10 hours ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
Best_Jeanist@discuss.online 2 hours ago
Holy shit, will AI cause the Linux renaissance?
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
It’s already doing it. Steam data showed a 100% increase in Linux clients after a “one too many” Windows updates fucked something up last year.
Note: it’s still hovering around the margin of error, but it’s strengthening. I think it went from 1.5% to 3%.
tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 3 hours ago
Shit, it barely runs on 16GB anymore!
hectorcruz123@lemmy.world 33 minutes ago
Feels less like time travel and more like cost-cutting dressed up as progress.
Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Why would I give you more RAM to do all the things you want with it?
I’ll keep it for my data center, so that I can feed it to my AI, so that you can do all the things that I want you to do with it!
drolex@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
Thank you Mr. Tech CEO! Very nice! Here’s my $1000 to buy a shitty device riddled with adware and spy warehouse (plus subscription). Feel free to give some of this sum to a maniac politician!
OwlPaste@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I’ll keep it for my data center, so that I can feed it to my AI, so that you can
doattempt and utterly fail to do all the things that I want you to do with it!Fixed it for you
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
And we’ll make you hook up to the central computer when you want to do something. You don’t even need 8GB for that!
Shortstack@reddthat.com 7 hours ago
"You’ll own nothing
and you’ll be happy"Welcome to the future!
rbn@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
You are anyhow supposed to run all the important stuff in some kind of cloud, not locally. That exactly feeds into their plan.
Wolfram@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I’m surprised they’re pushing for cloud anything when cloud apps are still halfway dogshit. Like the 365 suite on the web.
anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
the webapps are so bloated they don’t even fit in small ram!
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
A guy at work wrote a script to automate something for a department. The script was, I don’t know, sub-100 lines of JavaScript. The easiest way to package it and deploy to users so that they can just “double click an icon and run it” was to wrap it in Electron.
The original source file was 8 KB.
The application was 350 MB.
pmk@piefed.ca 6 hours ago
I’m not opposed to this, but we (the users) need control over that cloud.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
The cloud is basically by definition someone else’s computer, kind of inherently opposed to user control
RalfWausE@feddit.org 8 hours ago
Well, to see the bright side: Perhaps this will force developers to at least think about optimizing their software…
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Lol, they’re gonna make it SaaS and move it to the cloud before that happens.
RalfWausE@feddit.org 6 hours ago
I mean, just to confirm that i am an old man, let me tell you: I did 3d rendering on a machine with 8 MB (for the young folks: That is Megabyte) RAM, did videochat with a friend over there in Japan back then on the same machine, browsed through the web, build websites for money and none of that felt slow.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Nope. They will just shift blame to something else.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Hello $user,
Memoryleak™ 4.20 has minimum system requirements that includes 32Gb of memory.
Hope this helps
Go fuck yourself, Memoryleak™ support team
programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Or shift the processing to the cloud, we are going back to mainframe computing
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Modern Devs: “8 Gb??? That’s 2 chrome tabs!”
jim3692@discuss.online 6 hours ago
I have an HP laptop with a Ryzen 5 3500U and 8GB RAM. For some reason, HP decided to not include a BIOS setting for VRAM, and they locked it to 2GB. So, the usable memory is 6GB, which is low even for Linux.
Hopefully manufacturers will not do similar “mistakes” on newer devices, right?
OR3X@lemmy.world 40 minutes ago
So, the usable memory is 6GB
Most Linux distros recommend (not minimum) 4GB of RAM on their system requirements pages. I’m running Debian on a laptop with 4GB and it’s perfectly usable. You might want to try a different distro if it’s struggling with 6GB.
notthebees@reddthat.com 1 hour ago
I think igpu maxes out at 2 gb
Jayjader@jlai.lu 8 hours ago
This is not how I wanted programmers to stop wasting RAM
Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Surely you don’t expect developers not to ship an entire web browser as a dependency for their application?
LodeMike@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
"8 GB is fine for a laptop"
- me who uses an operating system that operates on 250MB
jamie_veal@feddit.org 4 hours ago
That must be a secret ploy to force users to switch to Linux eventually. I’m on board.
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Why even make 8gb chips anymore?
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 8 hours ago
Ahh, to go back in highschool playing Project M mods/romhacks during lunch near the library. The first time I’ve touched Linux, using Fedora on a USB 2.0 stick to bypass the main Windows 7 OS on my school laptop.
A time still during Obama, one year before Trump gets elected. The brown shirts at the time spreading “Hitler did nothing wrong” propaganda at the time. And I still had my soul and dignity back then.
I can’t wait to get my TMS treatment soon
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
I mean if it really could send us back, that would be just swell
LumiNocta@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Will there be a chance that companies will optimize their applications perhaps?
FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 45 minutes ago
Absolutely not. Just look at games these days. Number one complaint: everything runs poorly. Optimisation is an afterthought. If it runs like shit? We’ll blame the customer. A lot of games now run like trash on even the most high end graphics cards. Companies don’t seem to give a shit.
Vote with your wallet I guess.