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Re:Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support by rvba on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @01:15PM (#37573075)
Compare it to utorrent that does so much more and is probably around 5mb of RAM.

Seriously, is your post satire or you think 23 mb for a calculator app is good?

Whole windows 95 (including a calculator app) fit in 16MB of RAM. In fact even less, since you could run few programs on top of it too. Connect to internet even..

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Re:Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support by benbristow on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @01:40PM (#37573415)
I use Teams on a daily basis. End up closing it to save some RAM as it's eating up around 800MB of RAM for a chat app.

23MB for a modern calculator in this day & age when many apps are written in Electron/EdgeHTML/web technologies is pretty good

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Re:Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support by rvba on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @04:26PM (#37576023)
"Flu is not bad when we compare it to ebola" - is like choosing the lesser evil, bit still an evil.

The ancient version of utorrent (before ads) works fine.

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Re:Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support by benbristow on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @05:02PM (#37576582)
Using an almost 12 year old piece of networking software doesn't seem very secure to me.
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Re:Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support by rvba on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @01:55AM (#37580826)
That's not even the point of the discussion. If the old version of utorrent was changed to fix something (no new functionalities), it would still have a low memory footprint.
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