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FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 天前

Microsoft's Weather App Eats More RAM Than Most Browsers – and Serves You Ads

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Microsoft's Weather App Eats More RAM Than Most Browsers – and Serves You Ads

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FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 天前
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Windows 11 Weather app consumes up to 1.6GB of RAM and displays third-party ads — roughly five times heavier than macOS's equivalent.
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  • Kekzkrieger@feddit.org
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    Why does anyone need an ‘app’ when you could just use a Bookmark to your browser.

    I am so sick of everything turning into an app, most things can be handled by a website be that on mobile or pc.

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      Why go to a site if I can embed it in a dashboard tho?

      not a Microsoft dashboard of any kind, but in HA or as a kde background widget…

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      Under Linux mint in I have an applet for that. Next to the clock.

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      I work in the field. I really liked the weather tile from Windows8/10 because my computer often would tell me at a glance if the weather was going to turn nasty. That was handy.

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      It’s more fun to have free version of copilot build you a webpage for the weather with just the graphs, numbers and features you prefer, with outrageous styling.

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    Windows 11 Weather app consumes up to 1.6GB of RAM

    *Laughs in Linux laptop with 2GB of total RAM*

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    I love how they defend it instead of fixing it

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    I have a python weather app on my linux desktop using 37mb. 1.6gb seems a tad excessive.

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    Open web browser -> enter url -> wttr.in/nameofyourcity

    Like wttr.in/chicago

    Quick and easy. No bullshit.

    Work well with curl in a terminal.

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      Don’t know where it’s pulling the data but it’s definitely not accurate for the couple cities I tested.

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        I don’t really know, but since it’s a wrapper for Wego https://github.com/schachmat/wego I think it use one of the data source used by Wego. I think that the best improvement could be to be able to choose our own source.

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        Same here, which is a real shame, because I love the simplicity.

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      😲

      I never knew about this one. I use curl ifconfig.io all the time also.

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      My new favorite website: no ads, no JavaScript, and works with curl.

      Thanks for sharing it!

      • rayf@lemmy.zip
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        Discovered with this video from ‘breadonpinguins’ https://invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch?v=51-wk_F0SfE

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      But does it also work in powershell? Haha just kidding. Nobody is using that.

      • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
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        But Powershell has curl. … Wait a second… … Takes off mask… Invoke-WebRequest

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        I have to use it on a daily basis at work.

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          Ow jeej. I’m sorry for you.

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            Translating bash commands to powershell is actually one thing the Google AI really excels at.

            Of course I don’t have it build my scripts, but it’s been useful if the Microsoft documentation doesn’t have enough information about the flags.

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    One word for peace. Linux. ☺️

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    You really don’t understand… it is an app to change the weather by overloading the computer. The excess heat helps to predict a hotter weather.

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      Powerful computers can act as space heaters in the winter.

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    Are you telling me that an Apple weather app still slurps >300MB?

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      How else do you expect to find out the incorrect weather?

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        Actually, all that is for the tracking cookies. The actual weather data is never stored. This is how they support such advanced levels of inaccuracy.

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    The weather app is probably using edge aka chrome and they are ram hogs. Event the streaming apps on windows uses edge to get hdr etc

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    http://archive.today/iGmyM

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      Thank you. This also removed the incredibly obnoxious AI chat on the side that my ad blocker didn’t catch.

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