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[–] 27 points 3 months ago

I love how they defend it instead of fixing it

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago

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

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    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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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago

    One word for peace. Linux. ☺️

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    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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    [–] 14 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It's the constant over use of DNS pings to track your location because its good data to sell

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    Microsoft found something worse than Java

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    It's several distinct web views running simultaneously. I wonder why the memory footprint is not reused across these

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