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LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by gessha »

mckirk wrote: post #10
dave333 wrote: post #9

Now I'm retired, linkedin's daily games are a fun way to do a little brain tai chi. Queens https://www.linkedin.com/games/queens/ is my favorite, although my solve time is consistently about twice the average apparently.

I have to admit that this is also what keeps me coming back to LinkedIn. My brain is dangerously easy to motivate by dangling a virtual leaderboard in front of it.

But there’s so many good games out there. Check out Zachtronics/Coincidence.games for some cool examples. Walk to a bookstore and get one of their many sudoku/puzzle books. Check out the App Store for some puzzle games. Write your own puzzle game!

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by mft_ »

reactordev wrote: post #12
mft_ wrote: post #11

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I agree. I hate it with a passion and usually regret loading the page within about 10s of doing so. But it’s the default for recruiters, and it’s thus unavoidable to support necessary communication with them. I’ve been thinking recently it’s surprising that they never carved off a communication and calendar/meeting function – ideally in a separate app. But this would probably hit some product manager’s metrics, and L…

You have to look at who owns LinkedIn and why building a meetings and calendar was not “part of the plan”

On the one hand, yes - and (to be reductive) enshittification is basically making decisions according to incentives that aren't aligned with your users, so it fits.

On the other hand, MS have Outlook email/calendar and Teams for video calling - so it could have been an opportunity to benefit different parts of their broader ecosystem. You could also build in limited access to Word for CV creation/editing (with Copilot support, of course) - and then bundle it and charge users for features, and charge recruiters even more for a 'premium' offering.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by ghywertelling »

arun6582 wrote: post #2

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If I were PM at LinkedIn, I would do some cross social network info pollination to correct the LinkedIn. I would promote power users from bluesky or twitter who are technical or otherwise have lot of good analysis. Experts are prolific users and make use of Zipf’s Law to promote good content. Also through graph analysis, the users who get followed by power users will be promoted as well. Whatever you might say about Instagram and Tiktok, their recommendation system is SOTA. I even love ads from Instagram, they know exactly what kind of ads I might engage with.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by itopaloglu83 »

barbegal wrote: post #44

I don't understand why people get so hung up on Chrome using so much memory. A lot of this memory is "discardable" so will get dropped when the system is under memory pressure and the amount of memory allocated for this type of usage will depend on how much memory your system has available. If Chrome is using lots of memory then it's almost always because your system has lots of available memory. It allows the browse…

Well, a few GB here and a few GB there, soon you’re talking about real RAM issues.

The other day Safari was using over 50GB with only a few tabs open.

Maybe we should also acknowledge that some companies particularly have no compassion for users (and their desires or needs) and see them as hurdles in their way to take money from users.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by lucb1e »

surajrmal wrote: post #67
lucb1e wrote: post #48

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Or another process will die at random instead, which might be your desktop environment, the main browser process, Signal (10% chance at corrupting message history each time), a large image you were working on in Gimp... Firefox has gotten very good at safely handling allocation failures, so instead of crashing it keeps your memory snugly at 100% full and renders your system entirely unusable until the kernel figures…

That's not how it works. Process killing is one of the last ways memory is recovered. Chrome starts donating memory back well before that happens. Try compiling something and see how ram usage in chrome changes when you do that. Most of your tabs will be discarded.

I've already described above what the browser's behavior is. That your browser works differently is good for you; I'm not using a Google product as my main browser. There are also other downsides that this other behavior does not fix, mentioned in sibling comments

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by sp1982 »

dzonga wrote: post #20

for jobs - indeed is better or other small avenues in their heyday such as HN who is hiring (all my jobs have come through hn) other avenues - local slack channels. linkedIn - good for initial connection with strangers you don't know and might find valuable linkedIn - good for keeping tabs on companies or new startups

try https://corvi.careers I been building it purely as job search platform, has good coverage of startups and public companies but I’d still recommend to use LI for network tho

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by itopaloglu83 »

fredgrott wrote: post #73

LinkedIN, showing why Reactive is such a good idea by refusing to use it.... No joke, app constantly shows stale posts and stories,,almost like their devs do not understand what the limits to MVVM are for state....rookie mistake

And also keeps showing a red dot on the feeds tab every time you navigate to another screen, so that they can trick you with interacting with one more ad.

Just like how Netflix makes you scroll through a bunch of shows, just to get back to what you were watching. It’s a way of forced interaction.

We’re slowly getting into the black mirror territory.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by matwood »

freeAgent wrote: post #54
andrewl-hn wrote: post #40

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> It's a social network that became socially acceptable to browse at work. YMMV. I’ve heard a few stories where opened LinkedIn at work was treated as a massive red flag: “this person looks elsewhere, they are not committed to the company anymore”.

It depends on your role. People in sales have it open all the time since it's a legitimate research tool for them.

Yep. Sales and biz dev people use LI constantly not necessarily for connecting, but learning about contacts.
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