I read in a book somewhere that NOAA has the most accurate weather data, and that all other for-profit companies are just piggybacking off their data, but the companies fudge with the numbers a bit so people are less mad in some situations.

For example if there’s a 10% chance of rain per NOAA, a company might report there’s a 40% chance of rain, so you’re less mad and more understanding “we’ll it was 40%” vs “wtf you call this 10% chance?”

Just felt like telling that little anecdote.

Vibe resource allocation.

thanks joe biden

ram usage is hard to measure, but a whole ass browser for that does sound extremely shitty

I'm pretty sure there are like several solid linux desktop widgets thst do what you want but I don't even bother because I have conky setup with wttr.in lol

This is so growthfroth software

Even 247MB seems too much for usually checking the weather. Once upon a time, the entire operating system was able to run without any problems on less than 512MB of RAM, including programs, and now you tell me that I need half of it to check the weather? Technology has lost itself along the way...

And yet my script to fetch from an API and display in my bar uses no more than a few megabytes with the bar included...

Ads In a weather app, because of course

My first thought: If it isn't always running it honestly not a major concern how much memory the weather app uses.

My second thought: 1.2GB WTF? Ok, that is way over the top. The executive in charge should be fired.

My third thought: 250MB? That is still a little unnecessary, even if it probably does fall under the "doesn't matter" threshold.

My fourth thought: gnome-weather uses 180MB, not great, not bad.

My OS (Arch, MangoWM+Noctalia) uses about 1.3GB when no apps are running. It even includes a weather widget among other information widgets, like system monitor, all loaded in memory with their corresponding information, and it's all included in that 1.3GB.

I liked the idea from another article about Whatsapp webview app: if Microsoft itself doesn't invest time and resources to write native apps, who would care to? They themselves set a low standard switching app platforms and writing web wrappers, and it's naive to think this stops at bare Win11 being bloated - it means most other apps would also be created as bloatees. Resource consumptions just explodes, and so does the head of the end user whose brand new PC can't handle basic desk job and work chats.

80% of windows users, I guarantee, use the weather app daily. I place my bets there’s a bunch of crap happening as a background process.

Imagine paying for an OS and then get served ads. That shit should be illegal.

I got 99 problems and microsoft is all of them, except one.

and nobody stopped to ask if we needed a weather app on our desktops.

Never forget: calendar flyout

It was years ago, but that straw broke this camel’s back

Most weather apps are just data collection.

what would microslop be without the slop?

Don’t all webview2 apps share resources? The real problem is webview2 (based on chromium?) is bloated.

It's a weather app, 1.2 GB of RAM is crazy. The MacOS one is only good by comparing it to Windows. I have MS Word using only half of the Mac weather app.