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Electron Devs Be Like

4 days ago 2.2M views 0 shares

Electron apps are basically web apps wrapped in Chromium, which means they bundle an entire browser just to run what could've been a simple native app. The result? Your "lightweight" text editor somehow needs 8GB of RAM just to display a blinking cursor. So when Micron announces a 512GB RAM stick, Electron developers see it as a challenge rather than overkill. "Reality can be whatever I want" perfectly captures their attitude—why optimize your app when users can just download more RAM? Discord, Slack, VS Code... they're all sitting there like Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet, casually consuming resources that would make a 2010 operating system weep. The real kicker? By 2027 when these 512GB sticks are available, Electron apps will probably have evolved to need exactly 513GB.

Electron Bad

Javascript Webdev Frontend Programming C++

3 months ago 26.6M views 0 shares

The eternal developer dilemma: take the sunny path to the magical castle of proper native app development, or venture into the dark, RAM-devouring thunderstorm that is Electron. Sure, Electron lets you slap a website into a desktop wrapper and call it a day, but you'll be shipping a 200MB "hello world" app that eats memory like it's at an all-you-can-consume buffet. Meanwhile, compiling to WASM is the noble path—lean, fast, and actually respectable—but requires you to know what you're doing. Most devs just want their website to be an app without learning C++ or Rust, so they choose the path of darkness and 8 Chrome instances running simultaneously.

Is 8 GB RAM Enough In 2026? How Much Do You Have?

Hardware Gamedev Programming

4 months ago 1.6M views 0 shares

Is 8 GB RAM Enough In 2026? How Much Do You Have?

Gamers think they're suffering with 8GB? Cute. Meanwhile, 3D CAD users are out here with 32GB of RAM looking like they just witnessed their entire render crash at 99% completion. That's not confidence on their face—that's the hollow stare of someone who's watched their computer freeze while rotating a simple cube. Gamers are living their best life with their fancy 32GB setups, but CAD professionals? They're basically running a NASA simulation just to model a doorknob. Chrome tabs got NOTHING on a fully textured 3D assembly with physics simulations running in the background!

Chrome Is Making Good Use Of My 5060

Hardware Webdev Frontend

7 months ago 425.8K views 0 shares

You dropped $1,200+ on an RTX 5060 (or maybe 4060, who's counting) for some glorious 4K gaming and AI rendering, but instead Chrome's sitting there hogging 17GB of your precious VRAM just to display three tabs: Gmail, Twitter, and that recipe you opened two weeks ago. Meanwhile, your CPU's at 6% like "I could help but nobody asked me." The real kicker? FPS shows "N/A" because you're not even gaming—you're just browsing. But Chrome doesn't care. It sees your expensive GPU and thinks "finally, a worthy opponent for my 47 background processes." Your gaming rig has become a very expensive typewriter with RGB. Fun fact: Chrome uses GPU acceleration for rendering web pages, which is great for smooth scrolling and animations, but it treats your VRAM like an all-you-can-eat buffet. No restraint, no shame, just pure resource gluttony.

This Is So Stupid. I Hope That The Ram Prices Will Go Down In The Future.

AI Hardware Programming

9 months ago 527.3K views 0 shares

This Is So Stupid. I Hope That The Ram Prices Will Go Down In The Future.

Someone's out here generating AI frappuccinos while the rest of us are still trying to justify $500 for 32GB of RAM to our managers. The irony is beautiful—we're burning through GPU cycles and cloud compute credits to create cute little coffee drinks, probably using more processing power than the Apollo moon landing, and somehow RAM prices are still stuck in 2021 scalper mode. Every AI enthusiast running Stable Diffusion locally knows the pain: your model needs 16GB VRAM minimum, your IDE wants 8GB, Chrome's eating another 12GB with those 47 tabs you swear you'll close later, and Docker containers are having a RAM buffet in the background. Meanwhile, someone's training models to generate aesthetically pleasing beverages. Priorities. The real kicker? Those AI frappuccinos probably consumed more electricity and memory than it would cost to just buy an actual frappuccino. But hey, at least they're cute.

Electron Apps

Javascript Webdev Frontend Programming Hardware

9 months ago 441.9K views 0 shares

Remember when building a cross-platform desktop app seemed like a good idea? Just wrap an entire Chromium browser around your glorified calculator app, they said. It'll be fine, they said. Now every todo list app on your machine is basically running its own copy of Chrome, each one hogging more RAM than your entire OS did in 2010. Your 32GB of RAM? Gone. Your fans spinning up for a chat app? Normal. Your CPU crying because you opened Slack, VS Code, Discord, and Spotify at the same time? Just another Tuesday. The real kicker? RAM prices are skyrocketing because everyone's buying GPUs for AI training, so now you get to pay premium prices to run five instances of Chromium just to check your messages. What a time to be alive.

Money Can't Buy Memory Management

Hardware Programming Webdev Windows

10 months ago 430.2K views 0 shares

Spent my entire savings on 128GB of RAM last year. Now I just lie on it like Scrooge McDuck on his money pile, watching Chrome still manage to use 127GB of it. The remaining 1GB? That's for the OS to desperately cling to while whispering "please... no more tabs."

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Bloat Is Goat

Programming Javascript Frontend Webdev Microsoft

1 year ago 498.7K views 0 shares

The evolution of programming efficiency is hilariously tragic. In 1975, Chad programmers hand-optimized machine code to squeeze games into kilobytes. By 2000, we'd accepted some bloat for productivity with high-level languages. Fast forward to 2025, and we've got "programmers" creating calculator apps that consume 1GB of RAM because they've stuffed 69 frameworks into an Electron wrapper. Meanwhile, they're busy impressing AI girlfriends while Microsoft casually commits open-source theft. We went from calculating trajectories to the moon on 4KB of RAM to needing 16GB just to run VS Code without crashing. Progress™

The Taskbar Of Imminent System Failure

Windows Hardware Programming Webdev

1 year ago 562.9K views 1 shares

Ah, the classic "every browser tab is a precious resource" taskbar. That's someone running Chrome, VLC, Adobe Reader, and about 15 other apps simultaneously on a machine that's one CPU fan away from achieving liftoff. The look of judgment isn't because they're watching YouTube during a meeting—it's because they're somehow running all that without their laptop spontaneously combusting. Impressive yet terrifying. Like watching someone juggle chainsaws while standing on a tightrope made of dental floss.

The 51-Year Development Delay

Microsoft Programming Windows Debugging

1 year ago 552.0K views 0 shares

Accidentally launching full Visual Studio instead of VS Code is like embarking on an interstellar journey when you just wanted to go to the corner store. The meme perfectly captures that moment of existential dread when you realize your computer's RAM is about to be consumed by a software behemoth that takes longer to load than continental drift. By the time Visual Studio finishes initializing, your deadline will have passed, your coffee will be cold, and humanity will have colonized Mars. The difference between these two IDEs is basically the difference between bringing a nuclear warhead or a pocket knife to slice an apple.

True Happiness Is Closing 100 Chrome Tabs

Debugging Programming StackOverflow Webdev Javascript

1 year ago 521.3K views 0 shares

True Happiness Is Closing 100 Chrome Tabs

Who needs love when you have the sweet dopamine rush of closing 100 Chrome tabs after a debugging marathon? That moment when your RAM finally gets to breathe again and your computer stops sounding like it's about to achieve liftoff. Relationships come and go, but the euphoria of conquering that one obscure bug that had you questioning your career choices at 2AM? Unmatched . The best part? Those tabs were basically a documentary of your descent into madness - from "simple solution" to "obscure forum from 2011 where one person had the same problem but never posted the fix."

First Time Using Electron

Javascript Frontend Webdev Programming

1 year ago 567.8K views 0 shares

Expectation: "Lightweight and performant, just the way I like it." *smiles in Mr. Incredible* Reality: *horrified face* as your "simple" app balloons from 25MB to a monstrous 739MB. Nothing says "modern web development" quite like shipping an entire Chrome browser with your calculator app. Your 2GB RAM laptop is sweating nervously in the corner while you explain to users that your "lightweight" app just needs a quick 800MB download. But hey, at least it's cross-platform!

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