how to disable it ?
Search for it in the Start menu, right click uninstall. You can do the same with most other preloaded apps, or use whatever powershell incantation to do it in batch.
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
#422Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm pretty sure you have a plugin installed for Explorer that makes it crash - while Explorer is far from a perfect piece of software, its not even close to this bad, but it's pretty easy to extend it with COM objects that then run inside the process, that can and do crash the whole thing.
It's a work computer, and from what I see there's no visible plugins. But corporate IT always does some fuck shit (that's a technical term), so I wouldn't be surprised.
I recommend you install
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/pro...
And take a look what DLLs have been loaded into your explorer.exe. Look for non Microsoft-signed ones.
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#423What if we make all these apps obsolete with 100 tools < 100mb.
I miss lightweight tools so much. Even on Linux, opening some apps feels slow and sluggish, maybe because of Snap or Flatpak containerization, I don't know.
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#424> A new report shows Windows 11's built-in Weather app can consume more than 1 GB of RAM. By comparison, Apple's native Weather app on macOS uses roughly five times less memory under similar conditions.
Can we also be talking about how the Mac version uses 200MB apparently!? Why is a weather app using any more than like 10-20MB or so of RAM!? Load a couple icons into memory, maybe some background image or pattern, and a tiny bit of text. Why does it need to be so big!? (I'll cut it some slack while it's syncing/downloading, but for a weather app that should be like 30s once an hour max)
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
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Sometimes, you have to realize Hacker News is full of nerds that care about stuff nobody else cares about. Looks are so fucking important for many normal people. There's people that decide for or against a phone simply because it comes in a fun color.
They don't know why nerds care, but they will find out when they have to replace their PC just to have enough RAM to run a weather app.
But they won’t make the connection
Flashy beats functional nine times out of ten
Just look at the automotive industry
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#426It's because people became addicted to building apps using HTML and JS instead of writing actual programs that run on the actual OS and display their UI using native OS widgets.
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
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Some of us still know how to write software like that. And enjoy doing it. I made a little conference schedule app a few weeks ago for a conference I was at. I used my own rust UI toolkit, which calls in to cocoa to make use of native UI components. The resulting binary is about 500kb and it uses a couple megs of ram while running. It looks and feels like a totally native iOS app. As far as the OS is concerned, it is…
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.
Yeah, people get upset when you spew out total bullshit.
I work as a performance specialist and "AI writes code like that" is utter nonsense. AI writes the same terrible performing code that was the mediocre developer standard on Stackexchange and other codebases it ate.
You still need a lot of vigilance and time to make well performing software and most software engineers just don't give a damn if we don't outright block their PRs/feature launches before passing performance tests.
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#428Easy 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…
1. install ublock origin on Firefox. not even being annoying, edge is removing manifest v2 very soon, breaking proper ad blocks just like chrome
Firefox doesn't support PWAs on desktop and removed their previous self-designed equivalent years ago. It's the reason Brave is still running in the background on my machines.
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
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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.
I personally would attribute the better audio more towards Arma that PUBG was born from.