This was my mantra for the last 30 years. But now, even the tiniest thing has 1GB, linux and virtual memory. Except for very edge cases, this excuse is rapidly dying
But the waste adds up. There are a few projects at work whose integration tests I can't run on my work machine because it doesn't have enough ram (16GB) so I run them on my home PC instead. And that's even when I close IntelliJ, my web browsers, and kill all the background processes I can.
When I browse my local electronics web shops I see a lot of devices that couldn't boot a Linux kernel, some of which I wonder whether I could drive with a small consumer grade solar panel.
This was my mantra for the last 30 years. But now, even the tiniest thing has 1GB, linux and virtual memory. Except for very edge cases, this excuse is rapidly dying