10 years ago 512Mb of RAM was perfectly adequate for everything

Terry?

I practically used it as a web site viewer with javashit and everything disabled why the hell does it need to much RAM I'll never understand.

A lightweight browser with customizable keybinds, modes, hinting would be a godsend but sadly everything these days is based on some webkit or on qt5-webengine which both suck.

I see you do not into cryptocurrencies.
Or servers.
Or big data.
Or number crunching.
Etc.

Hi CS grad.

Are you retarded?

This.
XP has hopeless with less than 1Gb. Fedora Linux was even worse.

www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/en/ATMEGA328

I would like to interject for a moment.
When you're referring to CS grad, you actually don't want to imply that Computer Science is bad globally, as it sucks only in North America.
In Europe, CS is actually an extremely difficult and serious course.
Therefore, please, use the appropriate terminology, such as US/CS or as I've recently started to call it, computer bullshit for unilliterate amerifggts on amphetamines and fast food diet.

512MB is a lot of RAM for most applications. For example: people went to moon and back on 4KB of RAM, rover on mars has only 256MB RAM and can do a lot of things, including image processing.
Now, of course there are some applications that need tons of RAM to work (video editing, 3D, image editing, science) but using 2GB of RAM to display some text on screen is unacceptable. If games can render whole virtual worlds in 2GB of RAM (which are more complex than rendering text/images) and browsers can't do the same then there are some problems with the architecture of the application. I sincerely hope that hardware stops improving so that people will fix bloated software, but this won't happen and we will just have to live with it. I wonder what it will be like in 10 years time? From 2005 to now Firefox memory usage increased from 70MB to 1GB. That's 1463% increase (12 years). If we assume that rate of memory usage stays constant we are looking at ~15GB of RAM used by Firefox in 2029. But the thing is, this increase is not linear. LOC of Firefox is going up exponentially: openhub.net/p/firefox/analyses/latest/languages_summary - more code more RAM needed.

Text Only Internet.