In the middle of a RAM pricing crisis? Fuck off microslop.
The only thing that needs so much RAM to fill my 32gb is local LLMs. (No, I’m not an Ai bro, just play around with it mostly.) On my old machine I never filled 16gb, and on this “new” machine I do not fill 32gb either with regular usage. 16gb is still pretty fine, if you do not use your computer like an animal and think about the applications you re using.
32gb is the new standard they need to run poorly optimized start menus and telemetry in the background while they think no one is paying attention
Why should the OS itself, which is just supposed to facilitate the running of programs, use so much memory?
TL;DR: to spy on you.
Right?! I have a debian NAS running openmediavault, it has music streaming and samba network shares. it only has 256MB RAM and doesn’t even use all that.
Linux says “Hold my beer…” https://youtu.be/LJEo6Kb6Rhg
In reality, if software used the native UI toolkits instead of Electron, even 12 GB could be reliably used for gaming, HEAVY gaming.
Been that way for awhile but I imagine the ram shortage is going to lower it to 8.
32 would have been better for my OS and work need.
