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On "Wasting disk space" (www.ypsidanger.com)
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Flatpaks aren't huge at all. This is a debunked myth. I can't recommend reading this article enough.

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[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

I still care about storage used. I currently use 150GB on my phone, although there are some low hanging fruit to get that down to ~100GB used. Many phones still have 128GB of internal storage and no MicroSD slot.

And having storage efficient OS's can allow for use on older hardware, less waste, and even unholy Multi-Boot setups.

Perhaps this is the reason why I have storage devices with lots of storage. I have 3TB on my laptop and 512GB (256 internal and 256 MicroSD). It's liberating not to care much and frustrating to be constantly running on empty, especially with "grey goo" app caches or updates.

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