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by karmakurtisaani14 hours ago |
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upvoteby whynotmaybe13 hours ago|
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Back in my days, I had to remove the mouse driver from autoexec so that microprose grand pirx had 600kb of ram to start
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upvoteby SV_BubbleTime13 hours ago|
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Had to get a ride to drive floppies with corrected config.sys and autoexec.bat files around to friends.

Things weren’t actually worse.

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upvoteby iinnPP10 hours ago|
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Personally, I have reverted back to sneakernet in a lot of what I do.
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upvoteby baal80spam10 hours ago|
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Good times.
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upvoteby kevin_thibedeau13 hours ago|
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When RAM was $100 per MB that would be $10,000. You can do a weather app in much less provided you use native code.
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upvoteby big8513 hours ago|
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LumiWeather for AmigaOS runs on 2 MB RAM.
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upvoteby drdaeman13 hours ago|
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ESP32 in my OpenSprinkler pulls the weather (among a few more things it does) just fine and it has 520 kilobytes or RAM total.
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upvoteby 2Gkashmiri13 hours ago|
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Windows really I'd shitty for "assuming" unlimited ram, storage, processing, internet budget for them to get away with it.

They "could" make it easy but why bother? I assume next update will make calculator 1 gb download, 2gb ram resident and ADS

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upvoteby keicwifjwud12 hours ago|
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> Back in my day

Back in my day systems used to be a lot simpler too. These “back in my mind” comparisons show a clear lack of understanding of the subject matter. 1996 apps are not the same as 2026 apps. Expectations are different. Design languages are different. Even the UX is entirely different.

1GB is clearly overkill, no question. But ~100MB to ~300MB is perfectly reasonable and you know it.

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upvoteby karmakurtisaani9 hours ago|
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Yeah I wrote it a bit tongue in cheek, but even then I can't help but wondering where is all that memory needed.

My best guess is the GUI is somehow really heavy, wouldn't expect a simple console program that connects to some weather API to require that much RAM. But I never worked on apps like this, so no clear idea.

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upvoteby vinyl711 hours ago|
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99% of apps have the same or less functionality today as they did in 2001, but are significantly slower and worse.
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upvoteby chrisandchris10 hours ago|
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Functionality isn't everything. A human teller has the (more or less) same functionality as online banking, but I do love me some online banking.

I also like the weather icons being 4K and having some smooth anmiations.

Not to say that it's gone worse (it has IMHO) but comparing 25 years ago to know doesn't help much. Times were different back then. That's like comparing 1900 travel to today.

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