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WhatsApp is the worst app on your Windows 11 PC right now, eating 1.2GB of RAM doing nothing (www.windowslatest.com)

submitted 2 months ago by uszo165@futurology.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No, the worst app is Windows 11. My parents have some all-in-one HP PC. It has some Intel laptop processor from about 8 years ago, 16GB of ram, (upgraded from 8), and a wheezy 256GB spinning drive, running Win10 adequately.

After being bombarded with "upgrade to Windows 11! It's easy and fun!!" notifications, they did so, and of course their PC is woefully underpowered for the job.

I log in remotely and check what's running and the OS is paging to the swap file constantly. [Edit: and I mean, to the point where opening an application takes 60 seconds of disk thrashing for a window to appear]

I had to get a de-bloat script and turn off about 50 Microsoft "essential services". The biggest hog out of them all was copilot, which was using about 4GB while sitting there idle.

I have no doubt that I'm going to have to run that script every month as everything gets "repaired", until I can get back to their place and put a SSD in and maybe install some flavour of Linux.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why would anyone put WhatsApp on their computer?

Stop using meta people!

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

"Stop using meta people!" sounds like a protest chant for the second-class citizens of a B-grade cyberpunk dystopia.

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

unfortunately switching away from messengers like this is much harder than other stuff cuz you have to move your entire social network over. it can be done, but unless all your friends and family are also foss and privacy nerds it’s going to be difficult

then again idk if it’s possible, but if it is, you should at least use whatsapp within a web browser. it may even consume less ram that way lol

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It isn't hard to make that move though it's just inconvenient. I wouldn't play along, friends and family can fuck right off if they wont leave. It's directly funding so many nasty things I can't be part of it.

[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How is using Whatsapp for free funding anything?

[–] Killer57@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

There are advertisements inside of WhatsApp, advertisements in turn make money, that money goes to meta. I hope this helps you understand.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It is part of the larger Meta machine. Do you not ask to yourself, why are they letting me use this for free? It is a data harvester and tracker. It keeps you in the metaverse. It is a way to make the ad revenue for you worth more.

All these free services somehow add up to 60 billion in profit every year. And they are expanding, they plan to spend 125-135 billion in AI data centers. They are going to build data centers that will use hundreds of gigawatts in over 10 locations. The power used by each is in the scale of the same as powering all of San Francisco with some of these as 2 to 6 times as much as San Fransisco to put it into perspective.

They are going to use about 1,000 to 2000 acres each, use 1 to 3 million gallons of water a day (one site is asking for a permit to use 23 million gallons a day).

All because of people are using "free" apps.

[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 months ago

I don't have Facebook or Instagram. I use WhatsApp to communicate with my family that are a mix of iOS and Android. I have never seen an ad. As I posted, my WhatsApp uses about 320MB of ram. I have nothing to be outraged about.