• boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    Wellll

    If you have a terabyte of RAM sitting around doing literally nothing, it’s kinda being wasted. If you’re actually using it for whatever application can make good use of it, which I’m assuming is some heavy-duty scientific computation or running full size AI models or something, then it’s no longer being wasted.

    And yes if your calculator uses the entire terabyte, that’s also memory being wasted obviously.

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      17 hours ago

      That’s a different definition of wasted though. The RAM isn’t lost just because it isn’t being currently utilised. It’s sitting there waiting for me to open a intensive task.

      What I am objecting to is programs using more RAM than they need simply because it’s currently available. Aka chromium.