nothing that requires 8GB of ram lol.
I’ve played the entirety of java minecraft on an old thinkpad with 4GB of ram. It didn’t crash (i dont use swap)
There literally shouldn’t be anything capable of using that much memory.
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IthronMorn@sh.itjust.works 7 months agoThen what should I be doing on my phone?
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
greedytacothief@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Is this bait? Because like, you could be rendering, simulating, running virtual machines. Lots of stuff that aren’t web browsers also eat ram
RippleEffect@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Web browsers also eat ram.
greedytacothief@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I was trying to mention things that weren’t just web browsers. Since it seemed the comment was about programs that use more ram than they seemingly need to.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
90% of which can be paged in the background, it’s not like most people are chronically browsing the web on their phones.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
on a phone? Why the fuck would anyone be running virtual machines on a phone?
dustyData@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My man, have you been to selfhosted. People are using smart phones for all kinds of crazy stuff. They are basically mini ARM computers.
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 7 months ago
you could be rendering, simulating, running virtual machines
On a phone? I guess you could, although 4gb is probably enough for any video game that any amount of people use.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
People use phone apps for photo and video editing these days. The common TikTok kid out there doesn’t use Adobe Premiere on a desktop workstation.
Phone apps often are desktop applications with a specialized GUI these days.
IthronMorn@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
What about running a chrooted nix install and using a vnc to connect to it? While web browsing and playing a background video? Just because you don’t use your ram doesn’t mean others don’t. And no, I don’t use all my ram, but a little overhead is nice.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
on a phone? I mean i suppose you could do that, but VNC is not a very slick remote access tool for anything other than, well, remote access. The latency and speed over WIFI would be a significant problem, i suppose you could stream from your phone to your TV, but again, most TVs that exist today are smart TVs so literally a non issue.
my example here was using a computer rather than a phone, to show that even desktop computing tasks, don’t really use all that much ram.
IthronMorn@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Well, then by that logic, since desktop computing tasks don’t really use all that ram: we shouldn’t need more than 8GB in a desktop ever. Yes, my example was a tad extreme, vnc-ing into your own VM on your phone, but my point was rather phones are becoming capable and replacing traditional computers more and more. A more realistic example is when I was using Samsung Dex the other day I had 80ish chrome tabs open, a video chat, and a terminal ssh’d into my computer fixing it. I liked the overhead of ram I had above me. Was I even close to 12GB? No. But it gave me room if I wanted another background program or had to spin something up quickly without disrupting my flow or lagging out/crashing.
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Obviously using it as a thin client for this MacBook, duh.