I do know a few young people are tech/programming wizards but "generally tech savy" people seem to be declining. It's either you're really into it or barely know anything outside popular apps.

One other thing I've noticed, People just seem to be more paranoid about downloading stuff not already installed on their devices. Which its good people give at least a bit of a shit about security but convincing people Firefox isn't a virus gets a bit annoying (Yes I've had that conversation).

[–] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 21 points 9 months ago (6 children)

i remember not using firefox for a rlly long time bc i heard it’s ram usage with multiple tabs open was a lot less efficient than other browsers. idk if that’s true but i use firefox w 4 windows with 20+ tabs each and have never had a problem

[–] anaesidemus@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

this may still be true, we just tend to have more RAM nowadays

[–] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

ah makes sense. i also have a pretty big swap file so i think that helps a bit when im doing other ram intensive stuff

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 8 months ago

It's not true currently. Firefox and Chrome trade blows on which is more performance and which uses more/less RAM these days. It varies, but they're quite close.

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