Thoughts from my 14-year-old backup Thinkpad T430 after the main laptop died:
* Github's javascript UI is SO SLOW
* Most of the rest of the web is actually not terrible (at least with adblock)
* It drives a 4K screen surprisingly well
* Video playback is bad
* How is this thing running out of RAM, it has 12GB...
* The keyboard is a delight
So it turns out that Ubuntu's Firefox Snap blocks Firefox from reading the system memory pressure, which it uses to work out when to reclaim memory by hibernating unused tabs.
Nobody thought to check why this kept getting blocked by AppArmor until someone pointed it out, and it still hasn't been fixed.
@red this thing has 12GB of RAM, I don't think that's an unreasonably small amount!
I'm going to need to know how much RAM and how many browser tabs the Ubuntu devs have now.
Russ Garrett
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