I was reporting private working set, but I also look at the process in Chrome's task manager. From my view, items in the page file are not currently using RAM, neither are discarded tabs. Of course some significant percentage of my 75+ tabs are going to be idle, and if Chrome wants to snooze them from RAM for later load - that is a good thing if the aggressiveness of that cleaning process is balanced correctly.

IMHO process commit is a more than adequate indicator of current user space RAM usage.

I am writing this from a Ryzen 1700 with 32GB of RAM. I have Two different Chrome profiles open, as well as a Chromimum based browser (Vivaldi). Between all of them I have 5 tabs open in Vivaldi and around 80 tabs across 5 monitors in Chrome. This includes two different Gmail accounts and pile of google docs and sheets in both profiles.

Each profile has 5 extensions loaded (uBlock origin being primary).
Total memory usage 11.9 GB for the entire system. Chrome is using about 4GB with 75+ tabs open.

You are either on a site with bad client side scripting, or you have an extension burning through RAM.

Chrome is a bit more of a memory hog than other browsers, but not that much. RAM is cheap, stack it up and use it. I will keep my CPU cycles, thanks - I need them (mainly for the slow ass PSA that I have loaded in Vivaldi).

The promise of automation is to reduce the tedium and drudgery of everyday life. To free up time for other pursuits.
Instead it is used to free up capitalists from paying workers.

Those workers are indeed left with more free time, but no way to effectively use it in a society that has left the value of their labor behind and discarded the laborers with it.

This is a major societal issue. You can blather about new jobs and unimagined industries being created, but even if they are at the same rate (they are not), that leaves the labor pool to fend for itself. The capital holders are not going to pay for retraining. The government is loathe to do so.

This leaves little options except the 'gig' economy, where you are overworked with little protection, until you are sick, or your car breaks down, and you have nothing left.

As tech workers who implement automation, it is imperative on us to push society for a solution for this, be it a UBE, government budget for displaced workers/trades, etc.
We are aiding in the upward flow of wealth and it will leave many of our friends, families, neighbors, and even ourselves behind at one point if we do not stop it.

To add, looking at comments, this specific issues seems to be an authentication issue, resolved by creating a new 'app password (for non 2fa clients), then re-adding the account in Mac Mail. So, not related to any type of IMAP/GMAIL folder mapping.

I am no IMAP expert - but I would wager that it is somehow related to the fact that gmail uses labels/tags instead of folders. AFAIK with IMAP one message can be in one folder. With Gmail, a folder is just messsages with only one label, but messages can have many labels. Translating that to IMAP seems to be a likely clusterfuck area.

This 'AI' and others of it's ilk will be jumped on by law enforcement and government. They do not care if it is wrong. Just like existing polygraphs, it will be used to psychologically bully people and fool juror/the populace while having no basis in real science.

With the current trend towards anti-intellectualism we have now, this will only get worse, not better.

Read some of the info here about 'lie detection'. https://antipolygraph.org/

I have some intimate experience with polygraphs. As a convicted sex offender, I have had to submit to them as part of a treatment regimen. I have passed polygraphs I lied on, and failed them while telling the truth. The judgement lies in the examiners subjective whims, not anything objective.

Exactly this. I have a verizon Pixel XL - it was on a contract but acting flaky. I paid it off and upgrades to a Pixel 3 XL. The old XL still works, but every other reboot it hang sin some sort of unactivated mode that hands th whole OS until I force a reboot. I paid for this phone. It should be mine to use on wifi as a media player, camera, whatever.

Then you dissolve the rest in toxic chemicals, with child workers breathing in the fumes. Then you can extract the metals, and dump the chemicals into the ground.

Just here to say thank. I don't come here often anymore and have no mod points, but I am glad to see knowledgeable people chime in on a subject instead of just armchair experts.

Yes, you can listen for mechanical issues, yes you can (sometimes) read bad block and other SMART data. But, ultimately, without millions in equipment and skills, you just do not know. It is a cheap data storage brick. Choose one appropriate for your capacity and I/O needs, have a good backup plan in place, and quit whining.

I used Premium Google Play Music for 3-4 years. Due to finances, I cut it. I recently got a spotify premium trial (after using free spotify for a few months). GPM beats it hands down in terms of navigation, recommendations, etc. I am certainly biased by the long use of GPM, but when I try to look as subjectively as possible I still think GPM wins. Also, I have uploaded a large amount of my old vinyl and CD collection to GPM, whihc is handy. I also have it all on a plex server, but even with a beast of a server at home and a good connection, plex is slow and clunky. It also does not pre-buffer files in the playlist so there are LONG delays between tracks.

I really dread what is going to happen with a half baked app from Google that will probably fail and be dropped.

Sorry, voting is not a right to be earned. It may suck that stupid uninformed people vote. There will always be some (a few or a lot). The amount could be reduced by better education, including civics and critical thinking/logic courses which we do not really do.

But, making it an earned right buts the permission of people to vote in the hands of the elected. Once you block people from voting based on some arbitrary knowledge, you can use that vague test to effectively block people by gender, race, etc. Not a slope I want to slide down. We already blocked Native Americans, African Americans, women, and still mostly block felons and others. Let's not make it worse please. Instead lets work to actually create an informed electorate.

The javascript can read information like mouse movement and other user info and behavior, shipping that off to a google server farm for processing. The actual algo that decides human/not human does not have to reside in the browser side code.

Home, by Warsan Shire (British-Somali poet)

no one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark.

you only run for the border
when you see the whole city
running as well.

your neighbours running faster
than you, the boy you went to school with
who kissed you dizzy behind
the old tin factory is
holding a gun bigger than his body,
you only leave home
when home won't let you stay.

no one would leave home unless home
chased you, fire under feet,
hot blood in your belly.

it's not something you ever thought about
doing, and so when you did -
you carried the anthem under your breath,
waiting until the airport toilet
to tear up the passport and swallow,
each mouthful of paper making it clear that
you would not be going back.

you have to understand,
no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land.

who would choose to spend days
and nights in the stomach of a truck
unless the miles travelled
meant something more than journey.

no one would choose to crawl under fences,
be beaten until your shadow leaves you,
raped, then drowned, forced to the bottom of
the boat because you are darker, be sold,
starved, shot at the border like a sick animal,
be pitied, lose your name, lose your family,
make a refugee camp a home for a year or two or ten,
stripped and searched, find prison everywhere
and if you survive and you are greeted on the other side
with go home blacks, refugees
dirty immigrants, asylum seekers
sucking our country dry of milk,
dark, with their hands out
smell strange, savage -
look what they've done to their own countries,
what will they do to ours?

the dirty looks in the street
softer than a limb torn off,
the indignity of everyday life
more tender than fourteen men who
look like your father, between
your legs, insults easier to swallow
than rubble, than your child's body
in pieces - for now, forget about pride
your survival is more important.

i want to go home, but home is the mouth of a shark
home is the barrel of the gun
and no one would leave home
unless home chased you to the shore
unless home tells you to
leave what you could not behind,
even if it was human.

no one leaves home until home
is a damp voice in your ear saying
leave, run now, i don't know what
i've become.

but i know that anywhere is safer than here. (Painting: Holy Family Icon by Kelly Latimore)

I am liberal. I do not support 'wide open borders'. I do not know anyone that does.

You do know that most of the problems in central america are US caused. In Hondouras we helped with the coup that created the current shitty government, high murder rate and poor conditions. We push the war on drugs that only enriches cartels in these countries.

As to illegal immigrants. it is capitalists here that provide the opportunity. They are economically unwilling or unable to hire Americans and pay them a higher wage and taxes and instead hire illegals. Who should be punished in this scenario? The person looking for abetter life, or the businessman, farmer, construction company that exploits their labor to the detriment of citizens?

Also, this caravan - if it comes to a border point - this is legal asylum seeking. The office of refugee resettlement spends about half a billion per year resettling asylum seekers. Trumps camps cost 2 billion in just a few months. Sometimes it is cheaper just being a decent person.

This country has PLENTY. The only reason it does not feel like that to most is the artificial scarcity imposed by the oligarchy. This is the capitalism so many her slavishly and uncritically adore.