It's not only lazyness
Why do we need javascript on website that just give you news ? You just need pure html+css+picture and that's it.
In 100 years you will need 100GB to just get some news .... but this is progress !
Might I suggest a simple soultion to filter out webcontent.
I have been using a user agent switcher on Firefox on my PB to direct me to lighter websites that are already designed to run better on ARM processors.
Give it a shot, works for MOST websites, some behave badly.
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(05-03-2020, 11:58 AM)sorval Wrote: ...
Web browsing takes a lot of memory. Memory questions are extremely legitimate, and for many of us, 299 or 399 are the same as 199. I'd happily buy a slightly more expensive version for 16 gb of ram.
I too would have paid more for 8GB, 12GB or 16GBs of memory. But, in the open source ARM 64 world, there are just not that many options. I found that the Kirin970 SoC does support at least 6GB of memory. However, finding details if that SoC supports more memory than 6GBs are not easy to find.
One odd thing I have noted is that ARM 64 Linux distros seem to use less memory than a AMD 64 type. It's possible that the ARM 64 instruction set is simply more compact that AMD 64.
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Arwen Evenstar
Princess of Rivendale
This should be odd, because a reduced instruction set means more code needed for the same algorithm.
Pretty logic and that is what I learnt decades ago and kept in mind.
But I don't know if the actual ARM designs are really RISC compared to the ancient ones...