Windows 11 built-in weather app eats more than 1.2 GB of memory just to tell you if it is going to rain or hot today.

[notveryhandsome@techhub.social]

@nixCraft

Curl wins again!

[hitem@infosec.exchange]

@nixCraft Intresting, my windows weatherapp only uses 200mb ram and lill network connection

[csolisr@hub.azkware.net]

And if you don't currently have access to Curl, no problem, any HTTP browser is fine: wttr.in/san-jose-costa-rica

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@nixCraft How many gigs does curl wttr.in use?

[gael_rostang@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft while BSD users look at their window

[raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie]

@nixCraft
I look out the window, or check our own cheap weather station or go to www.met.ie

I hate desktop / toolbar space being taken with weather apps on Windows, Linux or Android.

There is a weather widget in the Linux toolbar/places Clock widget that takes location and displays temp & wind. I don't use it.
On Win10 it was horrible getting rid of all the widgety gunge in the taskbar.

[akiran_n@onlyfranz.com]

@nixCraft My default weather app is looking at the sky

[mocm@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft Of course it also works on Android phones, when use a terminal like e.g. termux.

[keeya@icy.arcticfluff.eu]

@nixCraft What a time to be alive reading this as "praise" to compare

"Apple’s Weather app on macOS is a single native process using 246.7MB of memory."

What have we done to computers

[crypticcelery@chaos.social]

@keeya @nixCraft holy, that is not even an order of magnitude of difference…

[thonyvezbe@mastodon.fedi.bzh]

@nixCraft I personally just look at the sky and sigh in despair. No RAM involved.

[phl@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft didn't they once also have like a telnet or finger interface? Or was that some other service, I don't remember...