Need to remember the actual date I got it, but it's definitely not longer than 5 months or something.
Edit: My user folder was created May 26, 2022. So 5 months.
Basically I was completely unaware of this problem to start with.
I'm a generalist, and so typically:
- have Blender open doing some 3D modeling, then forget to close
- make some music on Ableton with hundreds of tracks and plugins
- designing a UI on Sketch
- Davinci Resolve is open cause I'm color grading a shot I just rendered
- After Effects is open cause I'm compositing something
- Atom or VSCode or sometimes both are open cause I'm writing some code for Blender (creative coding) to render online, or for anything else code-related, etc. etc....
- oh and Chrome is open with hundreds of tabs cause I'm researching a bunch of stuff + watching videos.
I understand that I don't need to have all these apps open at the same time, but typically that happens for 2 reasons, either 1. I forget to close, or dont want to close just yet or 2. I'm working on a single project that's using all these apps.
I'm a very very very heavy user. I like my computer to be able to handle me doing stupid things like this. Anyway it's good that I'm now aware of this, will make sure to not try to exceed the RAM my computer is capable of, but I honestly see it as a design flaw and less my own 'irresponsibility'.
I do see this as a temporary computer though until I somehow make enough money to buy a much more powerful one. Will make sure to get an M1 with the highest TB drive then.
