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    The template of this meme is that of the man who cheerfully points his hand at a butterfly, asking "Is this a pigeon"?. In this meme, the man has been covered with icons of the applications IntelliJ, VSCode, Chromium and Signal. The butterfly which he points to is overlaid with the caption ".config". He asks "Is this a trash can?" At the bottom of the image, we see the command du -sh executed on the directories .config/chromium/ and .config/Code, yielding file sizes of 1016M and 83M respectively.

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    [–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 2 points 14 minutes ago

    Better than dumping into ~/

    [–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

    It gets worse, when I was doing a refine of a Mistral-7B, on both the Linux and windows rigs the default location was somewhere on my OS drive in either %appdata% or some .config/.cache bullshit which stored the entire LLM along with all checkpoints and whatnot.

    Nutter. My C drive on windows is a 120GB, all my programs are on my Q drive in software RAID. With Linux I follow the same principle, all heavy files are on a separate partition.

    [–] coherent_domain@infosec.pub 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

    Why is separating the OS with files necessary? I don't think large files slows down the OS anymore...

    [–] Wrrzag@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 hours ago

    Because it makes reinstalls really easy. You can just nuke your OS but everything else remains there safely.

    [–] IceFoxX@lemm.ee 74 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

    Well dont use chrom*

    [–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 22 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

    The signal community should band together and write a signal client that doesn't use the waste of space called electron. There is a rust library for signal and slint for cross platform UIs. Slint is even working (slowly) on mobile targets

    Anti Commercial-AI license

    [–] yonder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 minutes ago

    There already is one called Flare. It uses rust IIRC.

    [–] crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 45 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    I use ungoogled chromium, but only for sites that absolutelly don'y wanna work on firefox.

    [–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

    I'm surprised. I haven't had a website not work with Firefox for a long time. I haven't even had to install chromium as a backup in almost two years now.

    [–] pufferfisherpowder@lemmy.world 1 points 51 minutes ago

    Just yesterday I had shadow.tech's Cloudflare "vErIFY yOuR hUmAN" fail on me in Firefox. I had fucking paid for a month already otherwise that would have been enough to turn me off.

    [–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

    They are out there. I also have it around for those occasions. More common that you'd expect. Almost always some shitty site needed for work that has problems.

    [–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago

    Firefox doesnt support web serial.

    [–] Mwa@lemm.ee 6 points 8 hours ago

    Same but I use Cromite or i try using a electron app (like heroic) on my pc.

    [–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 hours ago

    Chrom, grant me my RAM....and if you do not listen, then the hell with you!

    [–] 30p87@feddit.org 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

    Well you do use files named chrome.css, as Firefox based browsers have their style css in that.

    [–] IceFoxX@lemm.ee 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

    Yes ok my mistake, despite * I am of course not talking about files with e.g. .css extension but only the browsers with chrome* as name. :)

    Edit: Above all, I don't want to imply that Firefox and co don't use system resources just as wastefully. But they are still the better choice.

    [–] 30p87@feddit.org 7 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

    Yep, obviously, was just a joke. But technically, eg. steam is also chromium-based (which explains why it's shit)

    [–] IceFoxX@lemm.ee 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

    It's just a rat's tail like so many other things.

    I miss opera with own engine

    [–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 3 points 8 hours ago

    Presto was nice. But I guess being quite strict about standards was just too much to handle for the chrome fanboy developers.

    [–] HStone32@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

    Valve has proven they will go to great lengths to utterly thwart would-be monopolies that threaten PC gaming (the real reason proton exists). We just need to find a way to convince them that Google is a threat too.

    [–] 30p87@feddit.org 4 points 9 hours ago

    I just want better APIs. Users will do the rest. A native client, still steam-style, but made in QT. Maybe not the store etc., but display that via an external browser or inline firefox somehow.

    [–] 30p87@feddit.org 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

    Apropos

    [–] Mwa@lemm.ee 16 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

    IntelliJ IDEA runs on a jvm right not a electron app??

    [–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

    I think it might still be dropping executables in .config, stuff like the JDK or even its own software versions

    [–] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 7 hours ago

    Ohhh okay, this is what the answer I was looking for.

    [–] qaz@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

    Yes mostly Java and Kotlin with a combination of Java Swing and Compose for the GUI afaik

    [–] projjalm@lemy.lol 9 points 9 hours ago

    I like how electron shit's "configurations" are also trash