A weather widget using 8 bit color plus alpha on a 4k display show three full size images in 100mb. But I suspect that's not the ux we're talking about here, and a widget style system has no excuse.

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galad87 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Apple's Weather app has an animated background, glassy views, and nice animations like water droplets on the glassy views when it's raining. So rendering all that on a 4k or more display at 10bit depth is going to consume a bit of RAM. However I guess it can surely be improved to make it consume less RAM.

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

https://wttr.in/ shows it's very possible.

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

Vector icons. It can be fit under 50MBs.

	▲	pixelesque 44 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Those still have to be rasterised to a pixel-based frame buffer at render/compositing time.

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useasvg 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Use an svg.

Or render everything using css, 100mb is someone not trying. 1gb is absurd abuse that only domestic violence victims put up with.

	▲	qlm 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Quite a tasteless metaphor, no?