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minus-squareJackGreenEarth@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down5·10 months agoAh yes. The mindset of: I have lots of money to spend on storage, so we shouldn’t care about optimisation for less fortunate users.
minus-squareconciselyverbose@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10·10 months agoNo, the mindset that the storage is less than pennies worth and this usage would have to explode massively to even approach negligible. A device that is affected in any way by a GB of storage space is going to choke on 50 other things way before you get to that.
minus-squaremilicent_bystandr@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up8·10 months agoI have a cheap laptop with a small SSD dual booting Windows. To me, a couple of GB does matter.
minus-squareSuperSpruce@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoNot when the manufacturers solder the storage and mark it up 1000+%. For many devices, 1GB is still worth over $1.
Ah yes. The mindset of: I have lots of money to spend on storage, so we shouldn’t care about optimisation for less fortunate users.
No, the mindset that the storage is less than pennies worth and this usage would have to explode massively to even approach negligible.
A device that is affected in any way by a GB of storage space is going to choke on 50 other things way before you get to that.
I have a cheap laptop with a small SSD dual booting Windows. To me, a couple of GB does matter.
Not when the manufacturers solder the storage and mark it up 1000+%. For many devices, 1GB is still worth over $1.