Well, at least we agree there. I too have no idea why people like to suck corporate d.

If you hate a company, don’t buy stuff from them. Don’t go whining that they owe you money after you voluntarily spent hundreds of dollars on them, that’s a weak move.

Also if you don’t want tariffs, talk to the brain dead people around you that vote for people like Trump instead of blaming companies that aren’t even from the US for having to deal with tariffs.

Microsoft is a US company but Xbox is an imported product, being manufactured in China. Therefore it was subject to the tariffs.

Let me ask you a question.
Say you export bananas to the European Union. Then the people in the EU vote to prioritize Europe above every other country (MEGA) and thanks to them you suddenly have to pay import tariffs on every banana. You are forced to raise sales prices to compensate which reduces the number of sales and lowers your turnover. Now it turns out the tariffs were unlawful and you get money back from the EU. Would you feel that that money belongs to the people in the EU?

Well not to disagree with you, but this is how tariffs are supposed to work. They make foreign products more expensive so consumers pick a US product instead.

The price is the price and everyone is free not to buy a luxury product like a PlayStation. If you did buy it after all, that means you agreed to the price.

That’s kind of understandable as they were also the ones who paid the taxes directly while importing the products.

Nice article but what does VBS stand for? I always thought it was a Visual Basic Script.

Or just press the file and hit F2, or slow click on the file twice.

This is about OEM prices, which are already much lower than consumer prices. A 10% increase is less than a 10 dollar difference.

I mean it can be an argument not to choose Windows, but it seems a bit far fetched to compare it with the price increases caused by the RAM shortages.

Well, I apologize if saying that the remark about you being inexperienced triggered you. Though I must say your first reaction, literally laughing out loud at my contribution is also not the pinnacle of empathy.

This topic is about memory usage so let’s stick to that. And blocking is up to you, as it affects your experience and not mine.

Why so emotional? We are talking about the memory usage of a weather app.

My point is about that 250 MB is a terrible amount of memory for such an application, and that such software isn’t updated for memory regardless of the platform. Yes, the Windows one is the most terrible of all.

The fact that you are a video editor is not relevant, nor is the fact that you are older, but it is interesting to read about your past nonetheless. L

It’s not an expectation, it’s a reference. It’s just a fact that software nowadays is not optimized for memory usage, regardless of the platform.

And yes, I’m pretty sure your weather app is fancy but come on man, a weather app is mostly a portal to show cloud data and is totally incomparable to a professional grade video editor, even one from 25 years ago.

The fact that you find it normal that displaying the weather takes up a quarter billion bytes of memory make me think you are relatively young and have never experienced anything other than the software of the past 10 years.

Indeed. 250 MB is four times as much RAM as is needed to use the full Adobe Premiere 6 video editor. And it is enough memory to run 30 instances of Word 97.

A weather app with images and backend querying can be made to run in ~20 MB RAM with proper optimalisation. The issue is that most developers don’t optimize for memory use anymore. Things like data types, heap allocation and copies vs references used to be a primary concern of developers.

Word 97 also has a memory requirement of 8 MB. That legacy win32 code is extremely optimized, programmed in a time where every bit and byte was considered. It’s today’s background services and applications that slow Windows down, consuming memory and cycles for no apparent reason.

Office apps have also become much slower and less stable since they integrated cloud support and bolted on javascript for the user interface.

It’s not going to free up a huge amount of memory, but it certainly reduces cpu load and disk usage. And gets rids of advertisements, telemetry and unwanted services. It’s an easy win. Certainly a step you can take before deciding to swap your complete ecosystem.

Just run a Windows debloater like this one: https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

How do you extract that from the article? The article explains how they are going to use WinUi3 and how MS has optimized it. WinUi is a UI framework used in C++ and C#. Basically it means they will make the UI more consistent.

Tried Ecosia but they want you to turn off an adblocker as they are ad supported. I don’t like ads as they contribute to overconsumption.

Tried DDG and it was solid but it wasn’t very good in local search results (I live outside of the US).

So I’m using Qwant for the time being.

Finally they are getting rid of js stuff for core OS components. And also good that they made a clear choice in MS UI frameworks, there are far too many.

You can actually find them in many European countries. They are often used for ecological reasons (maintaining vegetation in difficult to reach areas). They are independent and can withstand rain and cold.

I accidentally saw them live at a festival and I didn’t find their songs to be all that catchy either, but the performance was pretty good. Seems like an authentic and sincere band, hard to hate.

Prefab parts are actually very common here in West and North European homes. Complete prefab houses too, factory made, very well insulated, using heat pumps and underfloor heating, built in plumbing and electrical systems. They do not use bricks but a combination of wood, steel, insulation materials and cladding and are built for a lifespan of around 75-100 years.