Tbh if you run qbittorrent you can manually give it as much as you got in the settings.
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learned that the swap -> oom way with deluge. It would go overboard if not contained.
dump a pregant cow next to the kitten labeled "Chromium"
yeah. I want to think Firefox is a bit better 😅
Dude's filthy rich. Wish I had gone with the upgrade I planned to do last fall.
Back in 2021 I accidentally bought a 64 GB kit rather than the 32 GB one I intended to. No regrets now but really felt like an excess back then.
Ah the times when you could accidentally buy twice as much RAM.
64 still feels like excess on a Linux machine... But I got mine back in like 2023-2024 so I got lucky
It really depends on what you do.
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holy crap tell me about it.
The server this Lemmy instance is on was bought in August 2024 with 512G ram. I bought another 8x 64G in April 2025 for £610. That is ~£75 a stick of 64G server ram.
I just bought another server to go along side this and was originally planning to buy the same RAM again. It is now £500 per stick. So I've had to instead donate the extra RAM I bought last year to the new ram-less server.
So that's £75 -> £500. Absolutely ridiculous. Would have cost me £8000 in RAM when the rest of the server was ~£2k.
God damn
Indeed. Dude my main pc is just a modest last gen r7 32G with decent gpu. And I'm glad I pulled the trigger for the 16g upgrade last year.
Now I don't personally believe in higher being, but I'll be lying if I'm not nervous everytime I power up the thing. If anything breaks even if I go a tier cheaper I couldn't afford the replacement.
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I see you don't run electron app in flatpaks :)
elon musk inherited an emerald minefrom his father, but your child will inherit 32 full gigabytes of ram
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all that ram is for my many virtual machines i planned to run and never did because i didn't actually get any practical use out of them
Containerize everything
Unfortunately I can't run windows 7 in a docker container for the lickable aero theme and nostalgia. The KDE aero themes just don't feel the same either. Lots of subtle things missing.
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There's still time.
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Watch them disappear once you start a blender render
Meanwhile, the latest macOS update took away 20% of my battery life and added 15% of ram usage, just because, while the battery life of my Linux laptop is actually getting better with updates.
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32 gigs is quite a bit of a show off in these trying times...
I bought 2x32 ddr4 6months ago for $160. It's worth about twice that now! I have half a mind to resell it 😭
My unpopular opinion: free ram is useless ram. Go on, OS. Put evertyhing into ram. I have 64GB of it. Fill it the fuck up. I want to be able to open things blazingly fast, that's why its there. The trick is leaving enough so new things can fit without waiting for cleanup. And windows isn't bad at scaling its usage. Afaik, wIndows installation on 8GB will use less than the same installation when 16GB is available.
If you had unlimited ram, you'd be mad the OS was wasting time cleaning up behind itself.
It's not unpopular but only half right. Free RAM already gets used for caching, invisible to you. What you see in the task manager is reserved RAM and that one can't be used by other applications. If all RAM is reserved, you get pagination or the OOMkiller.
The problem is when one of my two RAM sticks is dedicated to exclusively the microslop spyware and my games can barely run on the leftovers.
I'm playing modded Skyrim with windows, when i used to get crashes the log report almost always have the RAM usage on critical.
When installed some new mods on Linux and they start to crash i was getting "All Good" status on every single log
Now launch one (1) web browser and watch an elephant drop on your sofa.
The OS is no longer relevant to memory usage, really, not in the way it used to be. The amount of memory required for a usable desktop is peanuts compared to the amount required to run a few web-apps.
One of the many reasons why we need a new and better browser without all the bloat.
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haha. I have 32GB of RAM in my server, and even though I run a LOT of stuff, it rarely gets past 6 or 7GB used
Why are you crying, Windows user?
Same reason as everyone else who waited to upgrade.
You can still use Chrome in Linux (my wife uses them together on her laptop).
Relatable
And here I am with a budget 12 GB RAM phone, that will turn out to be flagship tier due to the RAM crisis. Holy fuck.
We were so spoiled, we didn't even know what we had.
The way it should be. If it were Windows you'd have a massive bloated fat cat that can't breathe taking up almost the entire sofa.
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