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zswap and zram ~~becoming highly critical software again~~ trying to shove your fat 16Gb allocated application into 8Gb of RAM with room to spare:
It’s not even going to run chrome my guys
All web browsers are nearly unusable with 4gb of RAM lately. Even with desktop Linux I usually have nearly my full 8gb used. With 8gb AND Windows it's only a matter of time before these computers become unusable...
Was lucky enough to get one of the last 64GB 2-in-1 thinkpad x1 at 25% discount, a few days later an "upgrade" appeared with max 32GB and 700€ more expensive...
Apples going to come out with a 4gb phone and somehow still pitch it as a glorious innovation.
I bought a 64gb desktop in late 2024, in addition to many other expensive features. They can kiss my ass.
Lol, forget a browser, is that even enough to run Windows 11 well?
(In before jokes about windows 11 ever running "well")
Dell and Lenovo price gouge consumers
FTFY
lol lets fuck all other computational sciences so that people can generate cats drinking whiskey in robes de chambre.
Shit, looks like the crazy stock bubble is starting to dwarf and eat into the consumer market instead of just bursting...
Infect everything. Claim you need bailouts because everything has AI in it.
8 GIGABYTES!!? How am I supposed to load a mouse driver in THAT!?
laughs in MS-DOS
You don't need to load the mouse driver on your laptop. We have a subscription service for it!
GeForce now
Cool! Is the scroll wheel split into up and down services?
5 cents per scroll. Because pennies are over.
Seems reasonable. Can I buy left and right click separately as monthly subscriptions?
Boy was I wrong about modern computing, it's all so powerful and useful!
We'll trim it down so the mouse driver only has a little AI.
You can have a little AI, as a treat
Waaaayyy back in the day Dell had a real bad habit of limiting their low and midrange laptops to pitiful amounts of memory to stratify their product line even though the chipset might support more.
8 GB of RAM would be enough if every fucking application didn't use Electron.
thank you. came here to say this.
or, well, it also doesn't play well with ARM, i.e. on macbooks the ram isn't the bottle neck, its the CPU struggling with electron despite objectively being faster than x86 equivalents.
Or web applications, Firefox/Chrome uses like 32 GB RAM and constantly crashes my computer because of it
Not for me on linux
Back to windows xp for me!
Weird way to spell Linux Mint
I speak on behalf of all IT Support personnel everywhere when I say "fuck you"
Will they solder it?
there's a number of laptops already that do have 8gb on the board and no sodimm slots.
They'll solder 4gb. So even if RAM prices go down, you're still effffed
