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.
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@nixCraft KDE has a weather widget - not sure how much memory it uses, but probably not a lot.
@nixCraft wttr in didn't give the right overnight temperature for my location - maybe due to the data source used, hour cutoff for nighttime, or weather changes since the last data update. So that might be something where Microsoft has an advantage. Like, I wouldn't rely on this if I were worried that my tomatoes might freeze overnight.
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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. Hah. Linux and Unix users just type:
curl wttr.in
curl wttr.in/city_name_here
curl wttr.in/nyc
curl wttr.in/moon
curl wttr.in/london@nixCraft I really wonder how they manage to do that… are they running a local LLM model in there or what? Like this is no mistake or programming error…
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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. Hah. Linux and Unix users just type:
curl wttr.in
curl wttr.in/city_name_here
curl wttr.in/nyc
curl wttr.in/moon
curl wttr.in/london@nixCraft but the linux version cannot violate your privacy while you look at the forecast!
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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. Hah. Linux and Unix users just type:
curl wttr.in
curl wttr.in/city_name_here
curl wttr.in/nyc
curl wttr.in/moon
curl wttr.in/london@nixCraft I'd love to find a way to know the air quality PM2.5 and PM10 in my city.
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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. Hah. Linux and Unix users just type:
curl wttr.in
curl wttr.in/city_name_here
curl wttr.in/nyc
curl wttr.in/moon
curl wttr.in/londonCurl wins again!
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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. Hah. Linux and Unix users just type:
curl wttr.in
curl wttr.in/city_name_here
curl wttr.in/nyc
curl wttr.in/moon
curl wttr.in/london@nixCraft Intresting, my windows weatherapp only uses 200mb ram and lill network connection
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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. Hah. Linux and Unix users just type:
curl wttr.in
curl wttr.in/city_name_here
curl wttr.in/nyc
curl wttr.in/moon
curl wttr.in/londonAnd if you don't currently have access to Curl, no problem, any HTTP browser is fine: wttr.in/san-jose-costa-rica -
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. Hah. Linux and Unix users just type:
curl wttr.in
curl wttr.in/city_name_here
curl wttr.in/nyc
curl wttr.in/moon
curl wttr.in/london@nixCraft How many gigs does curl wttr.in use?
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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. Hah. Linux and Unix users just type:
curl wttr.in
curl wttr.in/city_name_here
curl wttr.in/nyc
curl wttr.in/moon
curl wttr.in/london@nixCraft while BSD users look at their window
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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. Hah. Linux and Unix users just type:
curl wttr.in
curl wttr.in/city_name_here
curl wttr.in/nyc
curl wttr.in/moon
curl wttr.in/london@nixCraft
I look out the window, or check our own cheap weather station or go to www.met.ieI 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. -
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. Hah. Linux and Unix users just type:
curl wttr.in
curl wttr.in/city_name_here
curl wttr.in/nyc
curl wttr.in/moon
curl wttr.in/london@nixCraft My default weather app is looking at the sky
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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. Hah. Linux and Unix users just type:
curl wttr.in
curl wttr.in/city_name_here
curl wttr.in/nyc
curl wttr.in/moon
curl wttr.in/london@nixCraft Of course it also works on Android phones, when use a terminal like e.g. termux.
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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. Hah. Linux and Unix users just type:
curl wttr.in
curl wttr.in/city_name_here
curl wttr.in/nyc
curl wttr.in/moon
curl wttr.in/london@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
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@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
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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. Hah. Linux and Unix users just type:
curl wttr.in
curl wttr.in/city_name_here
curl wttr.in/nyc
curl wttr.in/moon
curl wttr.in/london@nixCraft I personally just look at the sky and sigh in despair. No RAM involved.
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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. Hah. Linux and Unix users just type:
curl wttr.in
curl wttr.in/city_name_here
curl wttr.in/nyc
curl wttr.in/moon
curl wttr.in/london@nixCraft didn't they once also have like a telnet or finger interface? Or was that some other service, I don't remember...
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