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"Rising cost of memory," Microsoft explains why Windows 11 will use less RAM (www.windowslatest.com)
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Pavan Davuluri says the rising cost of memory is why Windows 11 will use less RAM, with work on the memory manager, WinUI 3 and WebView2.

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[-] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 day ago

Surface Pro owner asked if Microsoft would improve memory consumption, since they had to disable on-device AI services just to run a local model.

A cynic would say that customers disabling Copilot is finally what forced Microsoft's hand.

[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago

I disable every single new feature from all non Foss vendors. Theyre ALWAYS shit. 99% of the time its a shitty ui change for no reason and now shitty ai thats useless for no reason.

Whatever happened to good software. They all went to Foss lol

[-] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago

Publicly traded company shareholders, baby!

Any project worth its salt is privately held or FOSS lol

[-] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's why Valve/Steam holds the line. People think public corporations can choose not to be evil; they legally can, but it's practically impossible. That's why we need strong government and regulation.

[-] skujcici7755@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Hang on, how many surface pro owners are trying to run a local model i.e. local LLM on 8GB ram? I've got 32gb ram and it struggles with most larger models

[-] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[-] skujcici7755@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Sure, but how many people who actually know how to install a local LLM are using it on a laptop with 8GB ram? I guess if they have an NPU it might help

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