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saagarjha on Aug 1, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: App sizes are out of control

> my MacBook keeps nagging me that my "hard disk" (actually an SSD) is "full" because I only have 3GB of free space

That's because it will use that space for caches and swap, and you're preventing it from doing so and making the system slower.

DamnInteresting on Aug 1, 2017 [–]

Yes, I know. My point was that today's "practically none" was 20 years ago's "more than the OS can handle."

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