Apple enthusiasts claim it's literally double the amount of RAM they need for their workload. They proceed to watch Netflix in a google chrome window where it's the only tab open on their 2500 dollar computer.

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Heh, an optimist here assuming Chrome will work with 8Gb RAM in 2033

[–] abhibeckert@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It does. I have 16GB on my Mac, and half of it is given over to a virtual machine running Linux.

Chrome (and 20 or so other things) runs fine on the remaining 8GB.

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. How are things in the year 2033? Could you tell us about the technology you're using to communicate with us?

[–] rwhitisissle@beehaw.org 8 points 7 months ago

That's probably what the VM is doing: it's self-hosting a server running timemachined. timemachined itself is actually running out of a docker container that's running on the VM, but that's because by 2033 every single update, which occur daily, breaks the existing docker installation on a Mac. Which is honestly very similar to what happens in 2023, except it's every other day currently.