Laughs nervously
People… Book marks… I beg of you … You don’t even need to organize them
If I bookmark it it doesn’t exist. If it’s in a tab I’m more likely to remember to go back to it. If it’s in a tab for more than a week it’s dead, Jim
I hoard bookmarks, not tabs
Yeah, that ADHD tax is about to get real expensive with that RAM gouging…
I low key predicted this a few months ago when GPUs were all the craze, and balled out on 128 gigs of ram for my primary PC. No regrets now.
I bought 96GB for 400 a few months and thought myself a genius. I know now that I was a fool for underestimating the greed of man.
Yeah… I feel the pressure to upgrade my oldish MacBook very soon before the Holidays
Good news there then. Apples explotive RAM price gouging is now inline with other ram prices.
They’ve always way overcharged on RAM upgrades, except for when the M4 came out and they bumped all base RAM to 16GB for free, making the M4 Macs a slightly better than average value when comparing to prior Macs.
I don’t think the RAM upgrade cost has recently gone up either, but I could be wrong.
It hasent gone up. Their long term gouge now just matches the rest of the industry for the first time ever.
Yeah I miss the little door on the PowerBooks and early MacBook pros and iMacs that let you put standardized memory in. All mine had maxed out Crucial or Corsair ram modules a month or 2 after getting the Mac.
Then they started tying graphics cards to package upgrades and you ended up getting more ram no matter what.
Then the Stewart enshitification culminated in single board PCs with zero owner upgrade paths.
I literally cannot comprehend this. What are you keeping in these things?
If any of you are playing games, and I know you are, there’s no way those games aren’t slideshows.
Sooo literally how?
If I leave the computer for longer than taking a piss, the browser is closed. Zero tabs.
I get actually uncomfortable with more than 5 or so open.
At least at home. Work computers I can understand because you gotta do whatever you’re doing, but even then double digit amounts seems actually crazy.
If you’re just opening them thinking “I’m gonna read this article” and just leave it, then you gotta get some better meds.
some projects take longer than an hour and I don’t want to go through the effort of bookmarking stuff when they’re already neatly organized into tab groups
like, if there’s no downside… why not?
I learned of tab sleeping in another reply. Having all of that juggling in RAM would be the downside, but apparently that feature takes care of that. I haven’t looked into it yet or learned about it, still just going off someone mentioning it.
Although for me if it’s important enough to need to keep around, I would bookmark it anyway because I never trust reopening to bring everything back.
yeah the sleeping is a bit annoying at times when you want the page loaded in the background, but that’s a tradeoff I’m willing to take for having everything just there and organized and mostly ready to view. and with bookmarks I’d have to reload the page anyways, so it’s not like that gets around it
“the effort of bookmarking stuff” 🤯
it has to be categorized and then deleted after. and when I want to access it, I have to pick it out of bookmarks, and do that for every page I want to see.
or, I could just leave them in a tab group and close the group in a week or two, meanwhile they’re all nicely accessible and ordered
Because I might need it later again, even though I have already manually went to that site 3 times since
I cannot comprehend the idea of someone whose attention span doesn’t last longer than taking a piss and who has a visceral reaction to a computer-rendered filling cabinet analogy telling me I need meds.
I have sets of things in working on over time. Some windows are for misc stuff, some have game info, some have things I’m looking at buying but haven’t yet, etc. Why would I want to do the work of finding those pages again rather than letting the computer do what it’s designed to do and save to disk.
Not sure where the attention span zing came from, but if it’s something I’m working on, it’s filled in a to do list of some sort.
If I’m considering a purchase, it’s either in a cart or on a wish list, or has a bookmark.
Leaving all that open is just making your computer sad.
Like I get the fact that ADHD is a whole thing, I’m just saying I can’t personally grasp how using this coping mechanism works.
I understand having questions like this, but from a somewhat more quote unquote “normal” pov, I can’t understand it.
You said I needed meds, I say you don’t have a working short term memory…maybe we’re both wrong, maybe just you’re wrong, but I’m ok with those odds.
It sounds like your entire argument is that you organize open tabs using alternative tools to people who use tabs. You use a bookmark, I leave the tab open. You seemingly only shop for things in one store (if you can leave it in the cart), I do not.
Leaving all that open is obviously not making your computer sad. That reflects a misunderstanding of how computers work. Does Firefox take 10 gb of ram if you let it? Of course. But thankfully there’s tab sleeping…it’s like a bookmark except the tab is still there.
It’s not a coping mechanism for adhd. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were some correlation but I can’t even think of what part of adhd this is supposed to be coping for.
I don’t think you’re normal, the majority of the people I know both in work and life have more than 5 tabs open.
I presented one specific scenario/use case that I find completely ridiculous, intimating it was an ADHD symptom that one would need a better medical therapy to get past. That was exaggeration. I realize that doesn’t necessarily come across via text comments with strangers.
I hadn’t heard of “tab sleeping” either, so knowing that does blow that issue away. So I concede that point.
And I don’t use just one store. You can leave things in however many carts you have accounts for. Personally I rarely take longer than one browsing session to purchase something, but I understand that’s not necessarily everybody.
The longest (and most complicated, speaking of tab usage) browser process I’ve ever done was when I built my last computer. I used 3 different stores just for that, and took a couple days to finalize the final choices of parts, but even then I didn’t keep them all open.
And if tab sleeping really does fix the resource issue, then I’m not even arguing this process is better or worse anymore, aside from just opening up articles without ever actually reading them.
I can probably use my fingers to count how many times I’ve needed multiple windows in my life (and I’m old now in Internet years), and double digit quantities of tabs is probably barely a bigger number.
Personally, organizing and keeping track of that many things open would drive me nuts.
Leaving all that open is just making your computer sad.
No it doesnt. Take it from someone who has a dozen of browser windows open at all times with at least the same amount of tabs in each of those. I figured out how to close Firefox so it restarts with all previous windows again.
But it will only load those tabs once I click on them and even has a feature to unload tabs again. My personal shitty method has the downside, that each window will have an active tab that will be loaded at startup, but I work around that by always having an empty tab in each window to take that place.Doesn’t use noticeably more RAM or CPU that way, than a typical browsing session.
So it’s just like hoarder mentality then.
Not sure how much good closing and opening windows is then. If you close a window, those tabs are supposedly fine, but if you have “dozens” and close 2, what happens when you open a new one?
You have some kinda choice to resurrect a specific window? Or do you just run one window of every browser in existence?
Lol
I literally wrote an Android app to manage my links because I would have so many open. 🤦♂️
Ever heard about bookmarks?
Of course. I wanted to keep them in a way that I have more control over. I built a small dashboard and filtering options so I can easily organize all of them. It was also a fun project, so it worked for me. Haha.
Yeah, no flak. I’m not allowed to judge, considering my own browsing habits. Whatever works for you is fine.
Do you share it anywhere?
I do, it’s called Link Barn on the Play Store. And no worries, we all have our own habits, haha.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.softklass.linkbarn
I can’t stand looking at too many tabs, I get claustrophobic, I usually close the browser which purges all history, cookies, etc and open it again to start fresh
same, it gets overwhelming and I have to close them. Naturally this makes me forget whatever that was in the backlog of tabs forever but it’s a price to pay…
Yeah if I feel any interest for later I’ll bookmark it and put it in a folder that I’ll never click on until years later just to check of the link still works
I have like 1.5k tabs, I find ones I need because it suggests open tabs in the address bar. If I need to go from my first few tabs to something at the end or vice versa, I click on one of my pinned tabs which stays at the beginning and is always visible (doesn’t scroll) and then use the hotkey to go to next / prev tab which wraps and immediately scrolls to the end. It’s a lot faster than using the scroll wheel. That’s my main tab group, I have like 6 or 7 others with around 500 tabs each
So you are saying its not hard to keep tabs on you…
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