32GB should be more than enough.

You can go 16GB if you go native and throw some assembly in the mix. Use old school scripting languages. Debloat browsers.

It has been long delayed.

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Night_Thastus an hour ago | parent | next [-]

16GB is more than fine if you're not doing high-end gaming, or heavy production workloads. No need for debloating.

But it doesn't matter either way, because both 16 and 32GB have what, doubled, tripled? It's nuts. Even if you say "just buy less memory", now is a horrible time to be building a system.

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Aardwolf an hour ago | parent [-]

I found web browser tabs eating too much memory when you only have 16GB

	▲	prmoustache 23 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Use adblock, stop visiting nasty websites and open less tabs. Problem is easily solved.
	▲	Night_Thastus 39 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That's strange. How many tabs are we talking? Are they running something intense or just ordinary webpages?

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felixfurtak an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

“640K ought to be enough for anybody.” - Bill Gates

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shawndumas an hour ago | parent [-]

there's no reliable evidence he ever uttered that phrase

	▲	felixfurtak an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Doesn't matter. It's folklore.

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harvey9 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Hey, hey 16k What does that get you today?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IagZIM9MtLo

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Forgeties79 8 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sure but 32GB DDR5 ram has just jumped from ~$100 to $300+ in a flash. The 2x16GB I have in my recent build went from $105 for the pair to $250 each. $500 total!

SSD’s are also up. Hell I am seeing refurbished enterprise HDD’s at 2x right now. It’s sharp increases basically across the board except for CPU’s/GPU’s.

Every PC build basically just cranked up $400-$600 easily, and that’s not accounting for the impact of inflation over the last few years weakening everyone’s wallets. The $1600 machine I spec’d out for my buddy 5 weeks ago to buy parts for this Black Friday now runs $2k even.

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franciscojs an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I bought a motherboard to build a DIY NAS... takes DDR5 SO-DIMM RAM and only 16gb costs more than double the motherboard (which includes an intel processor)

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khannn an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

16GB is more than enough on Linux, but Win11 eats resources like crazy

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anthk 37 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm using 1GB with TWM, DIllo, TUI tools, XTerm, MuPDF and the like. As most tools are small from https://t3x.org, https://luxferre.top and https://howerj.github.io/subleq.htm with EForth, (and I try to use cparser instead of) clang, my requeriments are really tiny.

You can achieve a lot by learning Klong and reading the intro on statistics. And xargs to paralelize stuff. Oh, and vidir to edit directories at crazy speeds with any editor, even nano or gedit if you like them.