As embedded guy, sometime i wonder what those web devs are doing. A simple app that consumes multiple magnitude more RAM than the entire system i usually working with(~1MB). I assume it just does some HTTP query and render it on the screen, why the heck 1GB of RAM ?
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
#322Easy workaround for this: 1. Install uBlock Origin in Edge. 2. Start Edge, browse to MSN Weather. 3. Click the "Add an Application" button in the address bar to get a Start Menu icon for the page. 4. Delete the in-box Weather app icon. Now you get the same Weather app in about 130MB of RAM, with no ads. It's not as nice as a native app, of course, but it's 1000% better than the useless ads and MSN feed that you can't…
A better workaround is to install Linux. My entire operating system, which includes Niri window manager and Dank Linux running a weather app, among many other things takes less around 1 gig of ram.
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#323Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Your designers want Sometimes, you need to tell the designers NO. Moving background images don't help people figure out what the weather is going to be.
And sometimes your engineers need to be a LOT less stingy. 1GB is clearly overkill for an app such as this, but ~300MB is perfectly acceptable if it works well, looks good and does what it should do. There is such a thing as overdesign, but when you’re building a modern application, you must trust your designer’s sense of aesthetics and knowledge of UX patterns—two things engineers are often notoriously bad at.
Ah yes, Microsoft is famous for good modern UI/UX.
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#324The only good thing that might come out of these extreme memory shortages is forcing careless developers to actually care about resources for once.
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#325My 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.
I just set up a web server for a hobby project on a $10 Dell PC that has 2GB of RAM welded to the board. After booting Debian 13 it still has 1.6GB of free RAM.
In fact, that seems a lot. Back in ~1996 I was running one of the EFnet servers on a Compaq with 8MB of RAM.
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#326Attention Hacker News: you are literally the people writing this code and these frameworks.
Get your shit together and be the change you want to see. Or stop whining.
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#327Easy workaround for this: 1. Install uBlock Origin in Edge. 2. Start Edge, browse to MSN Weather. 3. Click the "Add an Application" button in the address bar to get a Start Menu icon for the page. 4. Delete the in-box Weather app icon. Now you get the same Weather app in about 130MB of RAM, with no ads. It's not as nice as a native app, of course, but it's 1000% better than the useless ads and MSN feed that you can't…
> Easy workaround for this Wipe Windows from your machine. Use Arch Linux. Problem solved.
I too want to shout how it's the Year of the Linux Desktop but I've been fighting mate-clock-applet recently. It has a memory leak, somewhere, and it slowly consumes RAM.
Normally though it's ~65 MiB for both clock & weather.
Also mate-screenshot is leaking RAM/processes. About ~40 MiB leaked per screenshot.
These things do tend to get fixed over time, though.
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#328As embedded guy, sometime i wonder what those web devs are doing. A simple app that consumes multiple magnitude more RAM than the entire system i usually working with(~1MB). I assume it just does some HTTP query and render it on the screen, why the heck 1GB of RAM ?
Just the absolute laziest implementation
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#329Easy workaround for this: 1. Install uBlock Origin in Edge. 2. Start Edge, browse to MSN Weather. 3. Click the "Add an Application" button in the address bar to get a Start Menu icon for the page. 4. Delete the in-box Weather app icon. Now you get the same Weather app in about 130MB of RAM, with no ads. It's not as nice as a native app, of course, but it's 1000% better than the useless ads and MSN feed that you can't…
Reminder that all Chromium browsers are hostile to adblockers and are actively removing them. Use Firefox with uBlock Origin, do not use Chrome, Chromium, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, etc.
Doesn't Brave have an inbuilt ad blocker?
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#330Microslop strikes again