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.
Better than dumping into ~/
When I use a computer for a few months my ~/ always gets so “messy”, I hate it!
I don’t get why so many programs do this. This is ridiculous
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.
Why is separating the OS with files necessary? I don’t think large files slows down the OS anymore, because of SSD.
It’s not necessary, just really convenient when your OS breaks
Because it makes reinstalls really easy. You can just nuke your OS but everything else remains there safely.
Well dont use chrom*
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
There already is one called Flare. It uses rust IIRC.
Non-flatpak🤮 link: https://gitlab.com/schmiddi-on-mobile/flare
Thanks. I’ll have a look at this!
I use ungoogled chromium, but only for sites that absolutelly don’y wanna work on firefox.
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.
I haven’t had a website not work with Firefox for a long time.
Me too…mostly? But the cases I’ve seen or encountered are always government, financial, education, or medical websites with some super-bespoke “portal” that will simply act bizarre on Firefox.
It really sucks that it seems so common to just glance at some “market-share” data and, not just assume everybody must use Chrome, but go so far as to force them to.
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.
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.
Firefox doesnt support web serial.
Same but I use Cromite or i try using a electron app (like heroic) on my pc.
Chrom, grant me my RAM…and if you do not listen, then the hell with you!
Well you do use files named chrome.css, as Firefox based browsers have their style css in that.
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.
Yep, obviously, was just a joke. But technically, eg. steam is also chromium-based (which explains why it’s shit)
It’s just a rat’s tail like so many other things.
I miss opera with own engine
Presto was nice. But I guess being quite strict about standards was just too much to handle for the chrome fanboy developers.
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.
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.
Apropos
Firefox saves its config outside of .config/ as well, IIRC. Can’t check now, I have actually put that crappy browser in the trash bin long ago.
I will not take this bait
And what browser are you using?
Usually the shit-talkers use some fork of FF that would last about 5 minutes if FF ceased to exist.
Or fucking Brave, the cryptoscam browser.
Yea, not a huge fan of the push for crypto on brave
IntelliJ IDEA runs on a jvm right not a electron app??
I think it might still be dropping executables in .config, stuff like the JDK or even its own software versions
Ohhh okay, this is what the answer I was looking for.
Yes mostly Java and Kotlin with a combination of Java Swing and Compose for the GUI afaik
I like how electron shit’s “configurations” are also trash
