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might be a form of Jevons Paradox (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 122 points 2 days ago (1 children)

On Linux it really is noticeable

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 124 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Well, until you open a browser... or five, because these days nobody wants to build native applications anymore and instead they shove webapps into electron containers.

Right now, my laptop doesn't have to run much. Just a combination of KDE, browser, emails, music player, a couple of messengers and some background services. In total, that uses about 9.5 GB of RAM. 20 years ago we would have run the same workload with less than 1 GB.

[–] InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

I recently had occasion to run a headless Linux distrk and got my socks knowcked off when I ran top and saw idle RAM use at fucking 400 MB

[–] ChilledPeppers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago

Yeah, discotd is eating 1.5gb of ram. Actually crazy