• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    I don’t know what you’re installing, but it takes 255MB on my phone. If you’re on a desktop, use your browser. Not that it should be much different.

    Edit: Also the same size on desktop according to Google. The fact that a statement as incorrect as yours is so heavily upvoted tells me there’s no actual logic and reasoning at play here in this argument.

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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      24 hours ago

      The problem with electron apps are that they’re literally just browser windows, which require a lot of overhead that you wouldn’t need with a native application. What you’re recommending has no benefit.

      The issue is that Electron apps are an acceleration of Wirth’s Law.

      • Zoot@reddthat.com
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        22 hours ago

        Must be a windows problem. Discord is neither larger than 500mb in size, and never uses more than a gig of ram on my machine.

        There’s a million good reasons to not like discord. Age verification, the advertising, the paid nitro for emojis. Why lie?

        • Venia Silente@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          10 hours ago

          Even on Linux desktop browser with fine-tuned uBO and API blockers and with several settings disabled it takes 560 MB and ~15% CPU on its tab plus whatever it is slicing from the general context thread. I can only dread what more it eats if you are not trying to restrict what it can do. Comparatively, the entire IRC client process I’m running (connected to various things) takes 65 MB + shared context.

      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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        20 hours ago

        Still calling BS on ‘multi-GB’. Runs on mine in a few hundred MB. Not to mention you’re using the wrong terminology if you’re referring to memory usage and not storage space.