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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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 Since curl is available on windows as well, I think a fair comparison would be to check against desktop weather applications available on operating systems running linux.
For instance, on my GNU Guix machine running GNOME, the default weather app just takes around 64MB of ram
. But then features like Suggestion for your day, Maps, 3D maps are not available in most of the weather apps on the other side.
And frankly i like the Unix approach here
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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 it uses so much RAM because it shows ads
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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 KDE has a weather widget - not sure how much memory it uses, but probably not a lot.
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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.
