alt Hacker NewsIt’s an equivalent app to make a comparison with, one from an OS company.
But yeah, I still remember when a weather app would take 10 MB and I was complaining (1999)
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glimshe • today at 6:24 PM
10MB to tell me the weather from a remote server...
Let's remember that the sprawling world of Legend of Zelda SNES (a Link to the Past), including all graphics, music, code and dialogue was 1MB.
blackhaz • today at 5:33 PM
10 MB is ridiculously overbloated. 1 MB or something in that vicinity should be more like it.
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I prompted my own windows taskbar weather app in rust with radar and forecasts and it's 233 kB.
https://github.com/derac/WeatherTray
I use Linux now, so you're on your own if there are issues. It might require some windows library to be installed but I don't recall. I ran it for a long while on win11.