05-30-2020, 04:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-30-2020, 10:43 PM by Dendrocalamus64.)
I don't mean to repeat myself, but: youtube-dl and mutt. And tmux, for that matter. tmux is terrific. I just leave mutt open in another tmux tab all the time, and that's my mailbox.
I made do on a linux desktop system with 768 MB of RAM for years, so the PBP is airy. free -m says I'm currently using 983 MB of 3870 MB total. Almost all of that is X and Firefox.
(I remember 10 years ago, Firefox tipping the scales at 90 MB. All in one process, not hundreds of megabytes split across multiple processes. I thought that was too much. After all, Opera 5 used 9-10 MB total, largely to do a lot of in-memory caching of rendered content, so you could quickly flick back & forth in the history. That seemed a bit extravagant. After all, Netscape 4.x used less than half of that. All to do the same work, e.g. display a few pages with inline images, and Javascript turned off. Software bloat is certainly a problem, but that doesn't mean that the best solution is just to let go of the rope.)
Needing 8 GB of RAM for web browsing is insane. I don't think I have 8 GB of data on disk from an entire lifetime, that I would ever really look at again, or that really needs to be saved. I mostly keep notes in text files; consider that the complete works of Shakespeare fit in 5 MB, uncompressed.
If you wear a camera on your head and film every walk you take in 4K HD, you'll have to pay a lot for the infrastructure to store, edit, back up, share, transmit & play back those enormous files; but, who created a culture that made you think you had to do this, rather than just looking out the window and appreciating the live view? The marketing department, in order to sell you the whole stack. And now they want to move you to 8K, so you'll have to rebuy all of it.
Does this mean I am against technological progress? No. But there needs to be a good reason to do something, not "8K vlogging because FOMO LOL WTF", or just not knowing how to do something efficiently. We have real problems to solve, and the time and resources could go to those instead. Plus, I could be outside.
I've never used Youtube's built-in player in my life. I don't trust Google, and I don't want their javascript trying to find exploits in my browser.
The one time I opened Chrome, looked around in it, and saw how Googled it was, it was positively creepy. I can't believe people use it.
You can wait for 8 GB RAM systems and pay tons of money, or you can change software and be free right now.
I made do on a linux desktop system with 768 MB of RAM for years, so the PBP is airy. free -m says I'm currently using 983 MB of 3870 MB total. Almost all of that is X and Firefox.
(I remember 10 years ago, Firefox tipping the scales at 90 MB. All in one process, not hundreds of megabytes split across multiple processes. I thought that was too much. After all, Opera 5 used 9-10 MB total, largely to do a lot of in-memory caching of rendered content, so you could quickly flick back & forth in the history. That seemed a bit extravagant. After all, Netscape 4.x used less than half of that. All to do the same work, e.g. display a few pages with inline images, and Javascript turned off. Software bloat is certainly a problem, but that doesn't mean that the best solution is just to let go of the rope.)
Needing 8 GB of RAM for web browsing is insane. I don't think I have 8 GB of data on disk from an entire lifetime, that I would ever really look at again, or that really needs to be saved. I mostly keep notes in text files; consider that the complete works of Shakespeare fit in 5 MB, uncompressed.
If you wear a camera on your head and film every walk you take in 4K HD, you'll have to pay a lot for the infrastructure to store, edit, back up, share, transmit & play back those enormous files; but, who created a culture that made you think you had to do this, rather than just looking out the window and appreciating the live view? The marketing department, in order to sell you the whole stack. And now they want to move you to 8K, so you'll have to rebuy all of it.
Does this mean I am against technological progress? No. But there needs to be a good reason to do something, not "8K vlogging because FOMO LOL WTF", or just not knowing how to do something efficiently. We have real problems to solve, and the time and resources could go to those instead. Plus, I could be outside.
I've never used Youtube's built-in player in my life. I don't trust Google, and I don't want their javascript trying to find exploits in my browser.
The one time I opened Chrome, looked around in it, and saw how Googled it was, it was positively creepy. I can't believe people use it.
You can wait for 8 GB RAM systems and pay tons of money, or you can change software and be free right now.
