The memory isn't even the worst part, on my laptop it takes up to 30% of the 8 core 4 GHZ CPU. Anytime I'm browsing and my fans start blowing like a lawnmower, it's because I forgot to close my weather app and it's just blasting away at the processor. Doing what, I don't know... probably spyware in one of the insurance ads on the side?
Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
351–360 of 621 posts
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#352how to disable it ?
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#353Earlier quoted context omitted.
“What value are you bringing to the company?” translates to “if you’re not printing money, you lose your job.”
Any manager who doesn't push back when given a perverse incentive should be fired. They are not leaders, they are followers... And not even very good followers.
Fired by whom? Where do you think these perverse incentives are coming from?
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#354Earlier quoted context omitted.
A weather widget using 8 bit color plus alpha on a 4k display show three full size images in 100mb. But I suspect that's not the ux we're talking about here, and a widget style system has no excuse.
https://wttr.in/ shows it's very possible.
The display on that page is literally broken for me, the boxes are all misaligned. It seems like it can't handle Japanese text correctly. Properly working localization in dozens of languages is one of those things that adds "bloat" to modern software that was missing in the bad old days.
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#355Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is your UI kit open source? I do think calling into the native OS toolkits is the way to go, when they exist. I'm curious if you use winit for windowing, or something lower level that's just mac specific.
I ported the leptos rust web framework to run on native platforms. Currently it works on ios, macos and linux (GTK). Eventually want to also add support for windows and TUI as well. It uses taffy for layout - which gives you the same flexbox and grid layout engines that web browsers use. Components are all fully native for the platform, via their corresponding binding crates (objc, gtk4, etc). UI library is here: htt…
SwiftUI’s diffing is such a mess that I wouldn’t be surprised if fine-grained reactivity of a toolkit binding UIKit like this worked better. Do you have decent support for long lists via UITableView yet? Edit: it seems so!
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#356My 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 still miss Battlefield 2. There is really nothing like it today, not even close. The dynamics with squads and a commander and A+ physics and overall game balance remain unmatched for all FPS games. Fortnite, PUBG, COD, all are disgraceful in comparison.
BF2 was great, BF3 was definitely better, not that there was anything at fault of BF2.
I disagree with Fortnite and PUBG, whilst PUBG is a little clunky it did usher in a completely new game style AND importantly introduced much better situational audio which other games didn't have.
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#357Earlier quoted context omitted.
Super interesting; it's been exactly the opposite in my experience. MacOS/iOS users put up with whatever Apple is telling them they should love - Liquid Glass, right? App Store restrictions, right? Lousy AI, right? - whether it's true or not. Linux users are willing to put up with any amount of work - i.e. bullshit - to make their installations work just to get a UX that's almost as good as Windows from 20 years ago.…
>> Linux users are willing to put up with any amount of work - i.e. bullshit - to make their installations work just to get a UX that's almost as good as Windows from 20 years ago I put in the exact same amount of effort to install a Linux distro on my laptop that I would have to install Windows. 1. Download the ISO 2. Write to a USB drive 3. Reboot 4. Run the installer. 5. ??? 6. Profit And all for an experience wit…
> I put in the exact same amount of effort to install a Linux distro on my laptop that I would have to install Windows
On Windows you have to add the step "figure out the secret incantation this week to not need to set up a Microsoft account"
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#358My 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.
Before I built a gaming computer circa 2004 I daily drove my family's old beige box that had a 350Mhz Pentium II with 64MB of RAM and Windows 98. I remember running CDex (because ripping CDs was all the rage), Trillian, and ZDaemon all at the same time without a hiccup. What a time to be alive!
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#359Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
it does, and works almost as well as ublock for most things, but isn't nearly as flexible.
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#360Earlier quoted context omitted.
[flagged]
MV3 is severely limited in what it can do. One example that blew my mind is that chrome happily renders webpages immediately after application launch, while extensions are still loading. Firefox, in contrast, doesn't let the network request fire off to the page until every extension is ready. So chrome is essentially screwing over the user, letting ads/ blocked content load, and intentionally degrading their experien…
>MV3 is severely limited in what it can do.
Yet, I never see ads since ad blockers still have enough power to block ads.