xxce2aab@feddit.dk "Don't worry about that. Do you like things that wobble?"

It doesn't look like glass to me

It does sort of suggest that from a UI standpoint, a chunk of users doesn't really deal well with the traditional paradigm of "opening a document in an application consumes resources, and part of the job of the user is to manage those resources". Like, maybe Chrome should just do the equivalent of, at least by default, converting a tab that hasn't been viewed for some time into something akin to a bookmark, just reload it when it's viewed. Or at least push the data into on-disk storage.

I don't use Chrome, but Firefox does something vaguely-analogous to that for session storage

like, if Firefox dies unexpectedly, restored tabs won't reload content until actually viewed, I assume to avoid the thundering herd problem.

I remember when I first encountered mobile OSes auto-killing programs and stuff to try to manage memory for users. I thought that it was pretty insane. But...clearly some users have trouble with it, and maybe it's a reasonable UI change for them. I know people who had difficulty, on various desktop OSes, understanding the significance of starting a program and the idea that a running program would consume memory and perhaps CPU time.

Enable chaotic good mode and be the change.

I mean, you have to reboot it at some point; even if, say, you can't plug in a USB so you boot over network.

Beautiful

That turned out to be because of some prerelease ssds with nonfinalized firmware that shouldn't have been in the wild.

https://www.techspot.com/news/109370-windows-11-cleared-all-charges-killing-ssds-real.html

The group speculated (and Phison later confirmed) that this early firmware was the real cause of the instability. Unlike the finalized firmware shipping on retail drives, the engineering preview caused crashes under stress. To prove the point, Phison ran the same stress tests (100GB to 1TB sustained writes) on consumer-available SSD models and reported no failures or crashes.

Until windows 10 stops updating.

Wake on LAN + PXE Boot + Automated Installer?