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Yeah, my time is way more valuable than a gigabyte of drive space. In what world is anyone's not today?
It's a gigabyte of every customer's drive space.
The value add is even better from a customers perspective.
That I can install far less software on legacy devices because everything new is ridiculously bloated?
Don't you get it? We've saved time and added some reliability to the software! It. Sure it takes 3-5x the resources it needs and costs everyone else money - WE saved time and can say it's reliable. /S
3-5x the resources my ass.
Mine, on my 128gb dual boot laptop.
How many docker containers would you deploy on a laptop? Also 128gb is tiny even for an SSD these days .
None, in fact, because I still haven't got in to using docker! But that is one of the factors that pushes it down the list of things to learn.
I've had a number of low-storage laptops, mostly on account of low budget. Ever since taking an 8GB netbook for work (and personal) in the mountains, I've developed space-saving strategies and habits!
I love docker.... I use it at work and I use it at home.
But I don't see much reason to use it on a laptop? It's more of a server thing. I have no docker/podman containers running on my PCs, but I have like 40 of em on my home NAS.
Yeah, I wonder if these people are just being grumpy grognards about something they don't at all understand? Personal computers are not the use case here.
"Grumpy Grognard". Do we have flairs on Lemmy? I can subtitle myself, grumpy grognard.
Fair point that laptops aren't really the use case, though there have been times I've wanted to try things out on my laptop - actually that's a reason I still want to learn podman or docker, because I hope it's a way to try server-y things on my laptop without polluting my system, and being able to cleanly uninstall.
But okay, space on servers. I have a VPS with 20gb storage. And that has to include my backup data that lives there.
FYI on the origin of the term grognard. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/grognard
My experience with it comes from he RPG/wargame realm. It's not necessarily meant to be derogatory.
I've got you beat. 32gb emmc laptop.
I need every last mb on this thing. It's kind of nice because I literally cannot have bloat, so I clear out folders before I forget where things went. I only really use it for the internets and to ssh into my servers, but it's also where I usually make my bootable USB drives, so I'll need 2-5 gb free for whichever ISO I want to try out. I really detest the idea of downloading to one USB, then dd-ing that to another. I should probably start using ventoy or something, but I guess I'm old school stubborn.
I tried using flatpak and docker, but it's just not gonna happen.
:-)
Going back in time is cheating a bit, but around 2013 my computer was an 8gb netbook. I carefully segregated my files into a couple of GB that I'd keep available, and the rest on an external HDD. To this day I keep that large/small scheme, though both parts have grown since then.
A gigabyte of drive space is something like 10-20 cents on a good SSD.