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Free disk space can be as low as zero, but we don't blame the tool makers for adding an extra 100Kb or 20MB, we blame the computer owner for not having enough d
by jodrellblank 4y ago
Free disk space can be as low as zero, but we don't blame the tool makers for adding an extra 100Kb or 20MB, we blame the computer owner for not having enough disk space to install the thing they chose.
Wrapper scripts for every utility to do
UTIL_TELEMETRY_OPT_OUT=1 util ...
so they don't need to be set all at once.
- JohnFen 4y ago> we don't blame the tool makers for adding an extra 100Kb or 20MB Honestly, I do. Code bloat is a real thing.
- jodrellblank 4y agoHonestly, I do too, but the world doesn't. If you said "I have 3,500 binaries on my system, imagine if they ALL added 1MB" the reply would be "3.5GB is about twenty cents of NVME storage space" not "oh my, you're right that would be intolerable".