Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor@mastodon.social)
mastodon.world
It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. Given Google's overwhelming presence in the browser market, this is unconscionable. We should all despise the ad-tech business, and have no sympathy for the companies getting whacked by Google's actions. But we should not permit one monopolist to replace them all. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/year-review-googles-corporate-paternalism-browser
    • anlumo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      65·
      11 months ago

      The year where a browser can easily eat up 10GB of RAM.

      On my Mac mini with 8GB, just having Visual Studio Code open is enough to fill up the RAM. No other programs necessary.

          • Bo7a@lemmy.caEnglish
            51·
            11 months ago

            Your WORKstation is for working. Budget devices are not for working.

        • anlumo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          The new MacBook Pro Apple just released a few days ago comes with 8GB in the lower two tiers.

        • anlumo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          I just use it for building and deploying to macOS/iOS. I don’t want to spend four digit prices just for that (I’m a freelancer).

      • locuester@lemmy.zipEnglish
        42·
        11 months ago

        It’s 2024. 32GB is a min requirement. I roll with 128GB because it’s a couple hundred bucks to never have to worry about RAM.

    • Daniel F.@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Idk, twenty twenty-something. But Chromium with the YouTube homepage takes less RAM than GNOME Software and GNOME Shell, which either says I should move to Xfce or that Chromium has improved. Can’t speak on VS Code though since I run that in a distrobox and podman is broken for me rn.