Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough - eviltoast

There were a number of exciting announcements from Apple at WWDC 2024, from macOS Sequoia to Apple Intelligence. However, a subtle addition to Xcode 16 — the development environment for Apple platforms, like iOS and macOS — is a feature called Predictive Code Completion. Unfortunately, if you bought into Apple’s claim that 8GB of unified memory was enough for base-model Apple silicon Macs, you won’t be able to use it. There’s a memory requirement for Predictive Code Completion in Xcode 16, and it’s the closest thing we’ll get from Apple to an admission that 8GB of memory isn’t really enough for a new Mac in 2024.

  • Aux@lemmy.worldBannedBanned from community
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    10 个月前

    MPV doesn’t work in terminal (well, technically it does, but what’s the point of 4K HDR video in ASCII mode?). Please don’t confuse terminal emulator in GUI mode with a real text mode terminal.

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      10 个月前

      The point is that your example use case of “YouTube 4k videos” doesn’t need a browser full of bloated js garbage.

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        10 个月前

        The point is that MPV will use shitloads of memory too.

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          10 个月前

          Actually lot less than the browser. Under 300MB, I just checked, and that’s mostly just the network buffer which is 150MB by default.

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            10 个月前

            That’s about what my Slack is using, while being written in Electron, lol. Oh, you people…

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      10 个月前

      KMSDRM is in terminal enough for me. Fbcon too.

      EDIT: obviously not dummy terminal over UART or like that.