"Now you get the same Weather app in about 130MB of RAM"

What a wonderful world we have created where the fix for a 1GB RAM guzzler reduces it to a mere 130MB.

Now I could start off with my old ZX80 or even my C64 (which is doing fine, thanks, and sports a USB "drive" next to its Quickshot II) but I think my first 80486 is a realistic comparison.

That ran at 25MHz, had a maths co-pro in it had 4MB RAM, a 20MB IDE HDD and I think the Orchid graphics card had 0.5MB RAM. The monitor was of course a 14" CRT VGA. OK so late 1980s!

However, that thing could run Win 3.1 and Word 2 and I think I managed to wedge a dodgy copy of Quark Express on it. I could play F117 and other games on it.

Oh well, lets see what this Linux box has on it:

/usr/bin/inxi - 1.4MB

    $ inxi -w Yeovil,UK
    Weather:
      Report: temperature: 16.05 C (61 F) conditions: scattered clouds
      Locale: Yeovil, UK current time: Mon 10 Aug 2026 01:16:05 BST
        Source: OpenWeatherMap.org

Obviously, I could install a Flatpak to do that instead and waste far more resources 8)