That’s why I only run those on work computers (where they are mandated by the company). My personal computers are free of these software.

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lpcvoid 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I rarely doge a chance to shit on Microslop and its horrible products, but you don't use a browser? In fact, running all that junk in a single chromium instance is quite a memory saver compared to individual electron applications.

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FeepingCreature an hour ago | parent | next [-]

fun fact, you can kill all firefox background processes and basically hand-crash every tab and just reload the page in the morning. I do this every evening before bed. `pkill -f contentproc` and my cpu goes from wheezing to idle, as well as releasing ~8gb of memory on busy days.

("Why don't you just close firefox?" No thanks, I've lost tab state too many times on restart to ever trust its sessionstore. In-memory is much safer.)

	▲	Fnoord 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, I found this out the other day when my laptop was toasting. In hindsight, probably related to archive.today or some Firefox extension. You have to close Firefox every now and then for updates though. The issue you describe seems better dealt with on filesystem level with a CoW filesystem such as ZFS. That way, versioning and snapshots are a breeze, and your whole homedir could benefit.

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bluGill 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I use a browser at home, but I don't use the heaviest web sites. There are several options for my hourly weather update, some are worse than others (sadly I haven't found any that are light weight - I just need to know if it would be a thunderstorm when I ride my bike home from work thus meaning I shouldn't ride in now)

	▲	Fnoord 11 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yr.no [1] is free, and available in English. Thanks to Norway. Apps available as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yr.no
	▲	lpcvoid 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Try Quickweather (with OpenMeteo) if you're on Android. I love it. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.ominous.quickweather/
	▲	TeMPOraL 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'm giving up on weather apps bullshit at this point, and am currently (literally this moment) making myself a Tasker script to feed hourly weather predictions into a calendar so I can see it displayed inline with events on my calendar and most importantly, my watch[0] - i.e. in context it actually matters. -- [0] - Having https://sectograph.com/ as a watch face is 80%+ of value of having a modern smartwatch to me. Otherwise, I wouldn't bother. I really miss Pebble.

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skydhash 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why would I need a browser to play music? Or to send an email? Or to type code? My browser usage is mostly for accessing stuff on someone else’s computer.

	▲	lpcvoid 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The only subscription I have is Spotify, since there's no easy way that I know of to get the discoverability of music in a way that Spotify allows it. For the rest: I agree with you.
	▲	sys_64738 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Plex or Jellyfin client access.