• unitedwithme@lemmy.today
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    11 hours ago

    Why Edge? (Still Chrome)

    Why Claude?

    WhatsApp depends on how much TEAM your PC has and what other software is running in order to change its cache. Maybe the tester/author has a lot of RAM and saw this “huge” usage.

    Personally, if I bought 64GB of RAM, by god I’m going to use it!! Why buy lots of RAM and be stingy??

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      9 hours ago

      Just because you have RAM to give, doesn’t mean an app should use it. An app that is using way more than it typically uses often means the app has lost control in some way (a memory leak). An app that has lost control will usually have performance or other issues.

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        2 hours ago

        Well, fine, right, I’m not saying I want something to use all 64GB, but I’m not going to be upset if something used a few GB. Chrome OS that way where it’ll eat up all avail RAM, hence why so many memes. A lot of applications are written poorly and yes, RAM utilization will grow, but again, if I’ve got it, in many cases might as well use it.

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      10 hours ago

      It’s something I’ve always done. I pick an app. ie: Firefox but then at some point I’ll go to the alternative to see if it has something I might have missed. This way I can evaluate it myself rather than rely on someone else’s bias. I’ve been using Edge for about 3 months now, and it really isn’t that bad. I’m going to try Brave next.

      As I mentioned earlier, I use the free version of Claude to help me with automations and dashboards in Home Assistant. It really is an incredible tool.

      I don’t know what that means. How much TEAM my PC has? You saw what Edge was using. This PC, which basically is a boy doing a man’s job, has 32GB of RAM. It runs all of my ‘ARR’ apps.

      I just don’t see the issue with Whatsapp. It runs perfectly fine of my crappy HP I7 7700 PC.

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        2 hours ago

        Ohhh my bad, stupid swipe text corrected ram to team I guess…

        Edge isn’t a bad browser as far as functionality goes, but far from secure. But it’s gotta I discovered vertical tabs while at work, so I added that extension in Firefox and now that’s native too.