The reason is the rising memory chip prices. The memes about RAM prices are funny and all, but the consequences of the memory supply crunch are anything...
You want to keep RAM full of stuff you aren’t using right now. That stuff can be erased almost instantly if you need the RAM for something else. That’s why OSs list “Available RAM” and “Free RAM” as two separate things.
Removing all the idle apps from RAM just means you need to wait longer every time you open one of them.
Yes, this is true, and I have preached this in the past, but…
They’re not treating it as a cache. Most of these apps don’t function with less ram.
It’s just inefficiencies stacked on inefficiencies. And yeah, they didn’t matter a ton at first, because our hardware was advancing fast enough to handle it. But at some point we should really go back and visit a lot of this stuff.
A 2014 computer should have gotten better at all the basic tasks that existed then, not worse.
The Windows 11 start menu being built on React is a good example. Insanity.
I can’t find it now, something from Github. The file name in downloads is TranslateOCD.apk (not my typo) and TranslateOCRapp is the app title in package installer.
6 GB RAM phone user here. What are you all doing with that RAM on your phones?!
My phone idles at 6.8 for some ungodly reason.
That’s because empty RAM is wasted RAM.
You want to keep RAM full of stuff you aren’t using right now. That stuff can be erased almost instantly if you need the RAM for something else. That’s why OSs list “Available RAM” and “Free RAM” as two separate things.
Removing all the idle apps from RAM just means you need to wait longer every time you open one of them.
Yes, this is true, and I have preached this in the past, but…
They’re not treating it as a cache. Most of these apps don’t function with less ram.
It’s just inefficiencies stacked on inefficiencies. And yeah, they didn’t matter a ton at first, because our hardware was advancing fast enough to handle it. But at some point we should really go back and visit a lot of this stuff.
A 2014 computer should have gotten better at all the basic tasks that existed then, not worse.
The Windows 11 start menu being built on React is a good example. Insanity.
8.3gb idle here. Im pretty sure Im a part of aws without knowing it.
I just closed everything and got the below.
7.4 GB with all apps closed and no data connections. Closing all background apps gets to 6.2MB. Makes Windows look efficient.
4GB here, recently I wanted to try out a local AI and was informed by the popup that 6GB is the bare minimum.
So, it won’t be until my next upgrade that I can travel abroad and have image translation on my FOSS phone.
What app did you try?
I can’t find it now, something from Github. The file name in downloads is TranslateOCD.apk (not my typo) and TranslateOCRapp is the app title in package installer.
Being spied on by the US, China, Russia and the rest of the five eyes alliance.
I just checked mine, 6gb here too. It’s probably been a month since my last restart. Only using 4.2gb. I have no idea what I would do with more.