• Samskara@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    Spotify using several processes and GB of memory just play some music and browse a library is an abomination. WinAMP did most of that 20 years ago while using a fraction of the resources.

    Discord similarly is an affront.

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      6 days ago

      don’t worry, this will all be solved now with incompetent vibe-coders, just give it a while

      or you will look back to this with a nostalgic tear in the eye. one of these.

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      If you have Spotify Premium, try a third party client. Even GUI clients like Spotify-qt are memory light [though not at feature parity] whilst terminal clients like ncspot, spotify-player take 1/10th the memory. The latter even supports Spotify connect.

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        Same here. At first, I thought I was going to get a better Discord experience with the dedicated ‘app’. Nope. Another web app crammed into Electron, multiplying the overall browser footprint on my system. It now happily lives on in a normal browser tab where my ad blockers and user-scripts claw back local control of things.