I used to get weather info via telnet, the report was measured in bytes. Either we are getting 10^9 more weather data or this is a record amount of bloat.
Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
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Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#532My gaming PC that I built in January 2006 that IIRC I used to simultaneously run Battlefield 2, Trillian, Xfire, Thunderbird, and Winamp with a 1680x1050 monitor had 1 GB of total system RAM.
Back then we had constraints. That made us better programmers. We had to think about every database call and network call. No one cares about that now until it compounds to broken software - like Windows.
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#533Earlier quoted context omitted.
AI writes code like that, but people get pretty upset hearing it. The program that I use to manage my small business, basically a GUI wrapper on an sql DB is a total delight to use, because everything happens instantly . Even opening it is instantaneous. Modern software is such a bloated mess that you kind of get used to a 20 second start-up and a .25-1 second delay on every action. Then you use something that isn't…
>> AI writes code like that, but people get pretty upset hearing it. To this day I never saw an AI write anything less than a 3Mb binary. Do you have specific examples in mind, and if so, can you share them?
I am sure that's true if AI writes it, but what if YOU use AI to type it?
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#534the article opens with the fact that macOS uses 5 times less. The irony seems lost on the author.
I wouldn't find this post less ridicule-inciting than if the title was
"macOS's built-in weather app wastes more that 200 MB of RAM"
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#535Earlier quoted context omitted.
More and more parts of the windows eco-system is now generated by AI and reviewed by AI, humans are only involved in testing (source is a familly member who works for microsoft). Not sure if it's the case for this app, but there might be no dev to blame here.
There's probably multiple devs, which is part of the problem. Ironically AI could likely do better than this if prompted right.
My /dev/random could do better if queried correctly
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#536Earlier quoted context omitted.
The most-difficult part of installing any Linux distro is getting the motivation to create the boot media . Luckily for Ubuntu (I'm running v26) you can use an old HD or USB and then [your flavor of LLM] to then walk you through the steps on how to make the media bootable (at least: that's what I did). I am a bluecollar electrician (yes, it took me a few tries; yes, I accidentally fucked up my first few OS's doing st…
Bootable media isn't that difficult. You need the right tool. Not sure what's current on Windows; I used Etchdroid recently. And you need a spare USB drive. That's the most annoying part. And you need to download the OS. And then you use the tool to put the OS on the drive.
I find that Rufus (https://rufus.ie/en/) is excellent for writing USB disks. I believe it's Windows/DOS only, but even as a Linux user for several decades, I boot into Windows just to run it if I need to burn an installer.
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#537Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bootable media isn't that difficult. You need the right tool. Not sure what's current on Windows; I used Etchdroid recently. And you need a spare USB drive. That's the most annoying part. And you need to download the OS. And then you use the tool to put the OS on the drive.
I find that Rufus ( https://rufus.ie/en/ ) is excellent for writing USB disks. I believe it's Windows/DOS only, but even as a Linux user for several decades, I boot into Windows just to run it if I need to burn an installer.
On Linux if you're comfortable with the command line use "sudo dd"
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#538My gaming PC that I built in January 2006 that IIRC I used to simultaneously run Battlefield 2, Trillian, Xfire, Thunderbird, and Winamp with a 1680x1050 monitor had 1 GB of total system RAM.
An amazing thing I was reminded of just yesterday is that COD4:Modern Warfare ran on the PS3, with 256MB RAM.
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#539Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#540They're pointing to macOS and saying it uses 5 times less RAM there, but is 230MB for a weather app really something to be proud off?
Here is an example of one built using Real Basic on Mac Os system 7+. Probably uses less than 1MB. https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/snazzy-weather-a-snazzie...
Yes, and this app looks like shit