Some people reduce the number of programs running in the background.

I just add another 8 gigs of RAM.

The things you can do if nobody is making you work on a Mac.

@ngBuild you'll say that until you have to run some heavy VMs

Don't even turn the computer off plug the stick right in while it's hot

@ngBuild I have a Mac Mini.

My laptop can't be extended ;-(
Soldered 8GB DDR4
Just Swap can help me (while killing my ssd)

The assumption of web devs that people enlarge their RAM when their shit doesn't load it without slowing down to a crawl.. shit like this feeds it. I'm not saying that this is a bad rant, but this Web 2.0 (let's face it, browsers take the most RAM by far nowadays) is ridiculous. If it's just HTML and CSS which I often default to because of JS blockers, you can load that shit in less than 100kB. 50 tabs/processes of that? No problem, it's just a few more megs. Meanwhile Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Edge.. takes several GB of RAM. And what for? Because of the fucking frameworks that webdevs can't live without. Fuck that shit. I keep an actual ram in my machine, his name's Spock!

For me the price of a 8 gig ram is somehow equivalent to ~350$. I cant do that!

A once great land and today a major shame, Iran.