> What’s actually using all that? Background processes from first and third-party software and from Windows 10 itself. When you click the cross to close Discord, for example, it doesn’t actually close. It operates in the background and doing so requires using system resources.
I think Discord, Skype, Telegram and co are made with electron thus the memory issues. Great for iterating, horrible for cheap laptops.
The article itself isn't really interesting though, because not really technical as to what the issue is exactly.
I’m a huge fan of Telegram’s model of releasing a cross-platform core for the community to build their own clients on top of. I wish all chat apps followed its lead.
hauls our old grindstone of GChat refusing to do XMPP federation
Pretty sure this was the start of the downfall. If we had a time machine, go back and convince the Google and Facebook PMs / mgmt who made the decision to not try to extend / support XMPP, maybe the world would be different today. I wonder if one could quantify how much global warming was caused by those decisions.
I think Discord, Skype, Telegram and co are made with electron thus the memory issues. Great for iterating, horrible for cheap laptops.
The article itself isn't really interesting though, because not really technical as to what the issue is exactly.