Draconic_NEO

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

No, it just limits the amount of RAM that Firefox (or whatever other application you launch with these parameters) will see.

A few Firefox tabs may crash occasionally as a side effect. And obviously a Firefox eats up all of the 8GB it's allocated it may crash itself though usually it doesn't and tabs will crash before the browser crashes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

That's good to know, I don't know how well it would work though I feel like I enabled something about closing background tabs to reduce memory load (it might have been what you said, it might have been something else I don't really remember) and it helped a little bit but it still ended up chewing up a lot of memory.

Setting the limit though did help immediately. And stop the overconsumption problems, occasionally a couple of tabs crash here and there but it doesn't freeze or worse cause other apps to slow down and freeze. Which did happen before.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

I can confirm this, the first time I tried it out I accidentally set it to 1 GB, Firefox could only see that amount of memory. Though limiting Firefox to only 1GB its a very bad idea and it can cause it to crash it's not because it's trying to go over though it's just because it ran out of memory.

8GB is what I would consider the safe minimum for web browsing. If you said it lower you'll have performance losses. Setting it higher though will only chew up valuable System RAM by inactive tabs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It might be harder for them but there are similar tools that they could use to limit it. One I've seen people use is firejail, a tool designed for sandboxing processes and applications.

I've personally never tried it myself though so I can't attest to how well it works, either for this purpose or sandboxing in general.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (12 children)

Gives a lot of Space for running Virtual machines.

Also browsers can chew that up fast if you have a lot of tabs, Firefox has managed to do it a few times. At least until I started limiting its RAM to 8GB (best decision ever)

Limit Firefox to 8GB of RAM .desktop file

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Firefox RAM limit 8GB
GenericName=Firefox Ram limit 8GB
Comment=Limit RAM for Firefox to 8GB;
Exec=systemd-run --user --scope -p MemoryLimit=8G firefox
Icon=firefox
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Categories=Utility;Development;
StartupWMClass=Firefox

(To use it with other apps like Chrome or Electron apps just replace the command at the end, and startup class with the ones from the program you'd like to run. Icon and Name changes are optional but might be desirable so you remember what app it is for).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's not cut all the way through, the skin is more opaque than the meat inside so if you cut shallow cuts in the skin the light will shine through the parts you cut away the skin on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I would encourage that, but if your instance doesn't defederate them you may have to go a bit farther since you'll still get replies from lemmy.ml users, as users are not blocked as part of this functionality. And that is by design, it's not meant to act as a replacement or alternative to defederation, it's meant to act as an alternative to blocking all communities on an instance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I don't, I'm happy the quiet part is being said out loud and I wish it would happen more often. It's good to know who are the good guys and who are evil pieces of shit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Jerboa is technically First party. Doesn't brand itself as the Lemmy app though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Probably were prescribed them at an earlier date but stopped taking them and had them left over. Also even over the counter ones can be deadly if you take too much of them, they are safer these days but it's still not impossible.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

For Twitter it really doesn't make sense because it has become undebatably a "Nazi bar", metaphorically since they aren't an actual bar, but they still support and tolerate Nazis (and other manners of horrible people). Some people insist that it isn't and there are "normal level headed people there" but that doesn't matter, it's still a Nazi bar, because it accepts and tolerates Nazis. How can someone expect to not be judged for going to and hanging out in a place like that?

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