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Microsoft's Weather App Eats More RAM Than Most Browsers – and Serves You Ads (www.gadgetreview.com)
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[–] rayf@lemmy.zip 20 points 6 days ago (4 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.

[–] brb@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Don't know where it's pulling the data but it's definitely not accurate for the couple cities I tested.

[–] rayf@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago

I don't really know, but since it's a wrapper for Wego https://github.com/schachmat/wego I think it use one of the data source used by Wego. I think that the best improvement could be to be able to choose our own source.

[–] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Same here, which is a real shame, because I love the simplicity.

[–] LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My new favorite website: no ads, no JavaScript, and works with curl.

Thanks for sharing it!

[–] rayf@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

Discovered with this video from 'breadonpinguins' https://invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch?v=51-wk_F0SfE

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

😲

I never knew about this one. I use curl ifconfig.io all the time also.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

But Powershell has curl. ... Wait a second... ... Takes off mask.... Invoke-WebRequest

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ow jeej. I'm sorry for you.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Translating bash commands to powershell is actually one thing the Google AI really excels at.

Of course I don't have it build my scripts, but it's been useful if the Microsoft documentation doesn't have enough information about the flags.