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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
#472My 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.
That's because programmers in 2006 didn't understand programming. They didn't understand how to make their software better . Real programming means writing your own javascript glue, pulling in hundreds of supply-chain-compromised js libraries that you never inspect or profile, and running the whole thing in a browser engine, while making sure to store all state in the cloud. The modern breed of programmers who don't…
rust programs are a lot of times faster and orders of magnitude safer than C and C++ counterparts... where is your data to support your assertion that rust programs use more resources than C and C++ programs?
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#473Please, Microsoft, PLEASE ! You can do BETTER ! Stop acting like an internship for every single feature you add ! Where's the money going ?
You should view it as an invitation to write a better app, like that guy that wrote a windows terminal to replace the garbage Microsoft wrote.
Re: 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
#475Why does everything turn into a browser
Why does everything turn into an app that includes a browser to display a web page?
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#476Earlier quoted context omitted.
“If I can’t see it, it must not be there”
That's the point of an adblocker. Web pages have ads, but with the extension they aren't there.
uBlock does a lot more than just block ads, is the thing, and that's what they killed with MV3.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#477Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another easy workaround: 1. Install Linux with KDE 2. Turn on weather report widget 3. Enjoy :) PS: You've also solved the mandatory account requirement, adds all over the OS, "Copilot" everywhere, Edge constantly coming back and much more <3
For the Windows look and feel, I recommend Mint + Cinnamon. It took me about 15min to not miss anything on Windows and was shocked how I had forgotten how clean a system can be. Mandatory Windows accounts can still be circumvented with a console command for Win 11 installations, but the overall enshitification package just got worse and worse. Cinnamon is X11, but it works very well.
Yeah I love KDE especially because it doesn't force a certain look and feel, it's super configurable out of the box and even more if you install themes and plugins (which I don't even do).
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#478> By comparison, Apple's native Weather app on macOS reportedly uses less than 250 MB of RAM That's also bloated, couldn't they find a better comparison to illustrate the egregious waste?
Thank you. And it is a shame I had to scroll down this far in the comments for someone to point out the obvious. Even a weather app that uses "only" 250MB of RAM should never have been delivered by a semi professional software shop - 250MB is enough to store whatever they can display in full screen on a 5k display as a bitmap - 5 times.
It was the top comment for a few hours. Others have discussed why it makes sense for apple to ise 250 mb in a weather app (heavy graphics and animations). Someone did an audit on the app.
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#479Earlier quoted context omitted.
What happens if you keep asking AI to rewrite it to use less and less resources?
It’s actually pretty good at this if you have some very specific constraints and objective.
And a way for it to get actual measurable results / feedback loop, which is apparently quite tricky even for humans to get.
Re: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
#480It will be interesting to see whether OS and application developers start to face commercial pressure to debloat their applications. For operating systems and their bundled applications, Apple's integration is an advantage here; the OS designers work for the hardware company and have aligned incentives. That doesn't mean they necessarily align with their customers, just that they are internally aligned. Microsoft...d…
Rise in RAM price may have a silver lining.