Post #3916436

2026-07-17 19:33 UTC

The funniest thing about that post is that nobody even questioned the 2 GB browser tab. Somewhere along the way we all just accepted that as perfectly normal.

Replies (5)

@wolf480pl@mstdn.io 2026-07-17 19:36

@fribbledom@mastodon.social I think it's on the edge of what's acceptable. If you had said 4GiB that'd begin to be hard to believe

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@grillchen@brot.eus 2026-07-17 19:36

@fribbledom@mastodon.social depends on how much u are into socks :shrug: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swmuqGWgZCc&list=RDswmuqGWgZCc&start_radio=1

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@lx@swiss.social 2026-07-17 19:39

@fribbledom@mastodon.social I mean these days people use web apps for everything and you rarely install actual desktop apps. 2GB for those would be fine, so it "feels right" that web apps need more memory too.

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@oscoder@mastodon.la 2026-07-17 19:46

@fribbledom@mastodon.social As a developer, technician level. My developments aren't being audited nor by a CS engineer nor by some automated metrics on performance and execution performance.

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@gudenau@hachyderm.io 2026-07-17 19:54

@fribbledom@mastodon.social I had one take up over 64GB of memory and caused my system to deadlock from the insane OOM pressure.

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