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1. muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 07:14:02 UTC muesli

   Pretty much all the Apple hardware seems to come with a default of 8GB of RAM.

   What do you Mac users do when you need to open a third browser tab?! 🤔

   • muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 07:18:20 UTC muesli

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     • DottorFred

     @drfrededison

     Here's me with my Firefox currently using 17GB of memory.

   • DottorFred (drfrededison@livellosegreto.it)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 07:18:22 UTC DottorFred

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     • muesli

     @fribbledom we uninstall chrome and use Firefox (or any other browser made by actual humans)

   • muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 07:21:34 UTC muesli

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     • midzer

     @midzer

     Pretty much uBlock only here. My Grafana tabs alone amount to ~8GB of memory usage. Probably as much their fault as it is the browser's.

   • midzer (midzer@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 07:21:35 UTC midzer

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     • muesli

     @fribbledom When I check my browser task manager most sites do no use more than 100MB each. Dunno where your high memory consumption is coming from. Extensions maybe?

   • mattsledge (mattsledge@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 07:29:50 UTC mattsledge

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     • muesli

     @fribbledom You're joking, but I have been using an 8GB Mac Mini M1 since day one with no spinning beach ball or slowdowns whatsoever.

   • muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 07:35:38 UTC muesli

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     • mattsledge

     @mattsledge

     I'm not sure I really am. It's been a while I've seen my browser use less than 8GB of memory.

   • muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 07:37:22 UTC muesli

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     • DottorFred

     @drfrededison

     Oh. Didn't realize Arch is running a Windows kernel.

   • DottorFred (drfrededison@livellosegreto.it)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 07:37:24 UTC DottorFred

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     • muesli

     @fribbledom sorry, I forgot, we uninstall windows and install any Linux distro if the browser is using this much ram with only five tabs open

   • Henry (proji@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 08:08:25 UTC Henry

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     • muesli

     @fribbledom I’ve never had a problem opening multiple tabs on my 2015 MBP with 8GB RAM. I’m not saying that more RAM is unnecessary, just that macOS is very optimised. Also this is being typed on my iPad Air M1 that has 8GB RAM too. This thing is absurdly fast

   • Maarten (maarteuh@mastodon.workingweb.nl)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 10:37:43 UTC Maarten

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     • muesli

     @fribbledom I know this isn't all serious but the Apple arm architecture is very efficient

   • manuelcaeiro ☕ (manuelcaeiro@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 11:40:20 UTC manuelcaeiro ☕

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     • muesli

     @fribbledom
     It seems a great opportunity to install Solus. 😉

     P.S.: Just joking. I presume you need a mac for testing.

   • muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 11:41:37 UTC muesli

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     • manuelcaeiro ☕

     @manuelcaeiro That's indeed the case 🙂

   • muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2023 19:00:51 UTC muesli

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     • mattsledge
     • Kerry Cooper

     @unCoopervised @mattsledge

     Typically Firefox. Apple Silicon is neat, no doubt, but it doesn't magically reduce memory usage.

   • Kerry Cooper (uncoopervised@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2023 19:00:52 UTC Kerry Cooper

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     • muesli
     • mattsledge

     @fribbledom @mattsledge 1. What browser are you using? 2. Have you ever used an M1 or M2 Mac? 😁