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[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 119 points 17 hours ago (11 children)

One silver lining about the component restraints, hopefully it drives people to start creating efficient software again. Actually optimizing what you’re doing to save on RAM rather than a gig per tab in Chrome.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 9 points 14 hours ago

Seems to me like everything is instead becoming even more bloated with AI stuff. A Google chat tab uses 2 GIGABYTES on my work computer.

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