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What an objectively terrible, counter-productive take on what is an otherwise simple and solved problem. Use an appropriately named folder (hi Nvidia, I hate y
by Zopieux 2y ago
What an objectively terrible, counter-productive take on what is an otherwise simple and solved problem.
Use an appropriately named folder (hi Nvidia, I hate your ".nv") in XDG_CACHE_HOME like every well behaved program in the past decade and let the disk space utilities solve the visibility issue.
- quotemstr 2y agoIt's because of articles like this that computing is an inconsistent mess. When you make a technical proposal in public like this, it's your responsibility to ask yourself "What would it look like if everyone did this?". If the answer is "a personal kind of hell", don't make the proposal.
- walth 2y agoAlso pretty easy to implement disk quotas on a modern system. Heck, you could even display a warning or the top directories consuming space upon login. Not a great take - this is a operations problem, not a design problem.