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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 raphar »

pks016 wrote: post #242
eximius wrote: post #177

Let's be real, LinkedIn is full of LinkedIn Lunatics but pretty much all mainstream social media is pretty shit. They're just different flavors of shit. LinkedIn: bad. Facebook: bad. Twitter: I literally think it contributed to the collapse of discourse and rise of shallow thought / rejection of expertise. I'm not going to list more because the theme is, you guessed it, they're bad. Google+ had promise in that the ma…

I think Google closed Google+ because it worked as social media and they couldn't find better ways to exploit users.

Fools, they lost a source of very valuable training data.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by mattmanser »

denysvitali wrote: post #257
nshelia wrote: post #253

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We now have simple chat apps capable of doing almost anything LinkedIn does while using under 100 MB of RAM.

A probe collecting data in space takes <70 kB of memory. I fail to see how this statement should make me feel happy

As someone was pointing out in a thread the other day about memory usage, a lot is fonts and images.

EDIT: Just mind boggling to get d/v'ed for pointing out voyager doesn't have to render fonts or images...

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by hobobaggins »

christophilus wrote: post #233
lucb1e wrote: post #39

AWS has a similar RAM consumption. I close Signal to make sure it doesn't crash and corrupt the message history when I need to open more than one browser tab with AWS in the work VM. I think after you click a few pages, one AWS tab was something like 1.4GB (edit: found it in message history, yes it was "20% of 7GB" = 1.4GB precisely) Does anyone else have the feeling they run into this sort of thing more often of lat…

I was researching laptops at BestBuy and every page took ages to load, was choppy when scrolling, caused my iPhone 13 mini to get uncomfortably hot in my hand and drained my battery fast . It wouldn’t be noticeably different if they were crypto-mining on my iPhone as I browsed their inventory. It’s astonishing how bad the experience was.

Best Buy is actually one of the worst and slowest websites from any large retailer. I cannot believe how bad it is. It's like they set out to make it pretty and accidentally stepped in molasses.

Re: 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 loglog »

Aurornis wrote: post #168
torben-friis wrote: post #6

I don't understand who uses that network anymore. Everytime I login it's all ai generated stories next to ai generated flavor images of people sounding like a parody of themselves ("what taking my kids to school taught me about business scaling"). Out of all places to doomscroll, why choose the one that feels like an episode of Severance?

Very few people with LinkedIn profiles read the social feed. Even fewer post things to it. The majority use LinkedIn only for job searching and keeping contacts. I do some times wonder if any hiring managers see a lot of LinkedIn social post activity as a positive thing. The few times we’ve interviewed candidates who had a lot of LinkedIn posting activity it was considered a risk: We could go through their LinkedIn a…

I recommend to block the Linkedin feed with uBlock.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by hobobaggins »

maccard wrote: post #49
lucb1e wrote: post #39

AWS has a similar RAM consumption. I close Signal to make sure it doesn't crash and corrupt the message history when I need to open more than one browser tab with AWS in the work VM. I think after you click a few pages, one AWS tab was something like 1.4GB (edit: found it in message history, yes it was "20% of 7GB" = 1.4GB precisely) Does anyone else have the feeling they run into this sort of thing more often of lat…

My company started using slack in 2015 and at that time I put in a bug report to slack that their desktop app was using more memory than my IDE on a 1M+LOC C++ project. I used to stop slack to compile…

It's always good to not slack when compiling.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by wolvoleo »

eximius wrote: post #177

Let's be real, LinkedIn is full of LinkedIn Lunatics but pretty much all mainstream social media is pretty shit. They're just different flavors of shit. LinkedIn: bad. Facebook: bad. Twitter: I literally think it contributed to the collapse of discourse and rise of shallow thought / rejection of expertise. I'm not going to list more because the theme is, you guessed it, they're bad. Google+ had promise in that the ma…

Linkedin is a special kind of shit. It even constantly scans for thousands of plugins.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by KellyCriterion »

eximius wrote: post #177

Let's be real, LinkedIn is full of LinkedIn Lunatics but pretty much all mainstream social media is pretty shit. They're just different flavors of shit. LinkedIn: bad. Facebook: bad. Twitter: I literally think it contributed to the collapse of discourse and rise of shallow thought / rejection of expertise. I'm not going to list more because the theme is, you guessed it, they're bad. Google+ had promise in that the ma…

To me LinkedIn always seems like a coporate ad newsfeed for adults who subscribe voluntarily to get the stuff? :-)

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by bvan »

mwkaufma wrote: post #244
bvan wrote: post #86

As much as you all dislike LinkedIn and the cringy posts, keep in mind that for certain parts of the market it is >the< main professional forum. It is where your investors live, and their capital providers live. So, play nice, yeah?

What does that have to do with RAM?

Absolutely nothing, as 99% of comments to the post. But it is the norm on HN it seems.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by wolvoleo »

pimeys wrote: post #235
beAbU wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got my last job there, and I have a steady queue of recruiters reaching out the whole time. So I will probably continue to use it as long as I need to eat. I don't engage with the feed at all though. I believe the same applies to many others as well

Beeper has LinkedIn integration, so you can chat with recruiters with any Matrix app without ever opening the website. https://www.beeper.com/

Still need a LinkedIn account for beeper to connect to though.
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