News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?. Parent comment

Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by rjh29 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @03:37PM (#46518328)
Corsair iCUE. 1.1GB to control your RAM lights...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by jason_oster on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @04:10PM (#46518807)
Beautiful example of bloat. Bravo!

The software crisis never ended. Instead, we also gained a hardware crisis.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by rjh29 on Saturday January 10, 2026 @05:32AM (#46564496)
I just uninstalled it and Windows reported it as 3.21GB, so it was larger than I thought!
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by encom on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @01:21PM (#46530272)
>1.1GB

>RAM lights

I'm not sure which is dumber.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by rjh29 on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @08:09PM (#46535711)
That's like saying Christmas lights are dumb. Each to his or her own though!
[ Parent | on HN ]