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The way google will nag you when your storage is nearly full is ultra annoying, borderline dark pattern. It will warn you that you might be running out of stora
by smashed 3y ago
The way google will nag you when your storage is nearly full is ultra annoying, borderline dark pattern. It will warn you that you might be running out of storage when attaching small PDFs to an email and the like, when you still have hundreds of megabytes available.
I started using Immich just this week and am very impressed by the amount of features built-in and everything just works. It really is a full-on replacement for google photos which is amazing. Even advanced features like face-detection using AI and partner sharing are there.
Shout-out also to immich-go [1] which is a cli tool that allowed me to migrate hundred of gigabytes of photos from a google takeout backup flawlessly.
1: https://github.com/simulot/immich-go https://github.com/simulot/immich-go
- peddling-brink 3y agoBut when your storage is full, your email will break. I'm not confident that warning you about a catastrophe that's a handful of large emails away is a "dark pattern". It's annoying that they've tied those two things together, but I wouldn't call it dark.
- dataflow 3y agoHundreds of megabytes is not that much, people can fill that up easily without sending large emails. Gmail can't predict the sizes of the emails you'll receive in the future. Maybe all your attachments are small but you'll receive large emails. Warning you when you only have a dozen MB left could well be too late.
- bxparks 3y agoWarning at a few hundred MB seems reasonable. A single PowerPoint slide could be 100MB. But I have 10 GB free, and I still get nagged. Annoying.