• janAkali@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I don’t believe it’s only chrome’s problem. I’ve noticed that firefox tends to lock all available memory to himself and whenever I need it, bastard just reallocates it into swap, making whole system laggy and slow.

    So… I’ve got my foxy friend into a Ram jail for being too hungry:
    systemd-run --scope -p MemoryMax=1G --user firefox

    God, I love linux!

    • z00s@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      I use FF on Manjaro and have never noticed a ram problem. I’ve also got it set up on a different virtual linux machine with only 2 gigs of memory and it works fine.

  • z00s@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I watched an amazing documentary on YouTube, made at the time of Apollo 11 that showed how the computers worked. It absolutely blew me away.

    The way they did so much with so little was incredible. There was no such thing as flashing firmware to a chip; they hard coded the bits and bytes by hand. BY HAND.

    That’s like hiring people to count the grains of sand on a beach. Amazing!

  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    8 months ago

    The moon computer only had to keep track of 3 things to move a spaceship from the earth to the moon.

    Chrome has to keep track of thousands of pieces of your personal information to move money from advertisers to Google.

    • yggstyle@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Chrome is the container housing that website the developer decided to include 15 libraries at 50 meg each because he couldn’t be bothered to optimize shit and that’s just “standard” now. Oh and tack on the 15 scripts running to mine your data and load unfiltered ads into your userspace.

      Get more ram pleb, it’s cheap… has been the excuse for ages. Makes it easy to ignore the problem.

      Don’t get me wrong- chrome is a pig… but in general it’s the dogshit-bad coding and development choices that turn even a small page into a massive footprint.

      • z00s@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Exactly. There’s no pressure to optimize when you’ve got spare hardware capacity to play with. Makes for lazy devs.