Notices by asm & tamsyn & forth, oh my! (millihertz@oldbytes.space), page 2

i'm beginning to think that the computing world is composed of two groups, old timers (like me) and super-onliners, and both of us are looking at what each other is doing and going "jesus christ that looks complicated, screw that"

how the hell did we land in a situation where people can say things like "16GB isn't enough for a daily driver"?! (not criticising people who say that at all, it's not their fault!)

i mean, my systems all have 4GB RAM a piece, and the only time i feel remotely constrained is when a Firefox tab hits the limit of its 31-bit¹ address space and crashes

¹ i run Firefox in a 32-bit subsystem, because otherwise it tries to malloc() 28GB, and eventually will crash Linux by attempting to use it all. damn overcommit!