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RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components (www.windowslatest.com)
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  • Windows Latest discovered Discord and other Chromium and Electron-based applications with high RAM usage
  • RAM usage spikes from 1GB to 4GB on Discord both in and out of voice chat
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[–] 165 points 11 months ago* (18 children)

If there's any silver lining to this, perhaps we can get a renewed interest in efficient open-source software designed to work well on older hardware, and less e-waste.

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  • [–] 81 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    Morgan Freeman: ”They couldn’t”

    I wish we could, but it’s tough to maintain optimism in the face of these sociopathic corporations’ seemingly ever-growing power

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  • [–] 32 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Open source developers are just like you and me. They'll get fed up with the bullshit and start developing things they need with the resources they have, just like they've always done.

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  • [–] 35 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    If there’s any silver lining to this, fuck JavaScript, fuck JavaScript wrappers and fuck all people picked JavaScript for the programming language of anything cross-platform.

    It’s unbelievable I would need 6 gbs of RAM to say a simple “hello” to my friends. It used to take 300kb with IRC.

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I’d love to see games do this because they are clearly not being optimized. Can’t wait to see that not happen.

    Good thing, I’m happy with retro games and the occasional indie.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    3/5 of the way through 100% Final Fantasy II. Figure by the time I catch up to modern final fantasy either hardware will be better again or people will optimize again. Either way I got time

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    US 2 or JP 2?

    US 2 is so good, but the late game seeed to have a difficulty spike so I never finished it.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I'm doing the pixel remasters which I think are based more on original JP. I know some purists look down on them but I think overall they're a solid version.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Why spend time making better software when the end user can just buy better hardware!

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    That's been the thinking for the last couple of decades at least. But it can't continue if people can't afford new hardware.

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