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Dex 🔞@Dex2/20/2024, 7:21 PM

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X @xkeeper2/20/2024, 6:18 PM

i fucking loathe computers

HEY GUYS ANYONE NEED FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FUCKING-ONE PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF UBLOCK ORIGIN???? CHROME HAS YOU COVERED

yes, my chrome folder is somehow using thirty fucking gigabytes of disk space (more than my fucking downloads folder by a wide margin) and a solid sixth of that are previous versions of ublock origin dating back to august 30.

thanks chrome.

#fuck chrome #Fuck computers #fuck all this

X @xkeeper2/20/2024, 7:05 PM

i fucking loathe computers II

continuing my "where the FUCK did all my space go" adventures, oh look, it's another chromium-based electron piece of shit doing inane, inexcusable things

no fucking wonder all my space vanishes when every few days some garbage piece of shit """"application"""" decides "hmm, you know what? i feel like shitting out a 170 megabyte turd today for no reason."

i want to fucking strangle every single idiotic app developer that does this

#fUcK vIsUaL sTuDiO cOdE #Fuck computers

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muffin j lord @muffinlord2/20/2024, 6:28 PM

Yes but then you wouldn't get the "peeling off the gloss protect" feeling of nuking hundreds of junk folders to reclaim space so, really, chrome's doing you a favor :v

X @xkeeper2/20/2024, 6:29 PM

deleting more than 1 gb of shit at a time should reward you with a little popup of a paper shredder and grinding noises

muffin j lord @muffinlord2/20/2024, 6:35 PM

They should get a gacha game developer to do a little graphic where the heavens split, everything sparkles rainbows, and windirstat shows you reclaimed thirty gigs of space off a terabyte stick

Kate @antumbral2/20/2024, 6:46 PM

and Manifest V3 is helpfully going to turn every filter list update into an extension update

X @xkeeper2/20/2024, 6:48 PM

manifest v3 is probably what will drive me to actually switch browsers for real.

B.I.E. Unit: Explorer-B @GoopySpaceShark2/20/2024, 7:20 PM

At least this seems to be specific to Chrome, and not other Chromium-based browsers. Vivaldi only has the latest version. Still worried about Manifest v3... manifesting... itself, though.

X @xkeeper2/20/2024, 7:37 PM

i would not be surprised in the least if this was a direct consequence of my abnormal computer usage (namely: not turning it off).

168 days of uptime and counting

B.I.E. Unit: Explorer-B @GoopySpaceShark2/20/2024, 7:39 PM

that's, uh,
to be frank with you a minute, holy shit. how is windows even still functioning?

X @xkeeper2/20/2024, 7:43 PM

i have been doing this since i got computers. it isn't difficult, for me.

my record uptime was my previous desktop pc, which stayed online and usable for just over two years (when i decided it was finally time for it to have a rest). it was light-duty and mostly running an irc bot, but i used it for streaming/games sometimes.

computers generally work fine if you let them run and stop them from doing stupid things like automated updates. the only time i end up rebooting typically are when something's super fucked (my current desktop's graphics drivers ate shit) or when i need to do actual physical maintenance on them. it keeps everything where it is, all my programs stay where they were, with what i was working on still loaded.

here's a live image from one of my servers:

"1920 days" is 5 1/4 years... and counting.

B.I.E. Unit: Explorer-B @GoopySpaceShark2/20/2024, 7:47 PM

oh yeah I've got a raspi for my web server running their debian 11 fork and the uptime's getting on a bit with that, my surprise was aimed specifically at windows. historically had a not so great record with that myself even with updates off, haha

X @xkeeper2/20/2024, 8:03 PM

everything but that server i have is windows, mind. the linux one is just 2x my best, so

but even in windows 98 days i was reliably hitting the month of uptime mark. when xp rolled around i got to a year multiple times

@Ongion2/21/2024, 3:22 AM

Honestly you couldn't go much longer than you did on Windows 98 because it would crash after like 50 days.

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walking mirage @atomicthumbs2/20/2024, 7:25 PM

i love wiztree for helping me find bullshit like this instantly

X @xkeeper2/20/2024, 7:26 PM

i'm in windirstat for the same reason, because i deleted several gigs of shit last night when i hit zero, woke up, tried to take a screenshot in sharex, and got an error

literally refreshing the disk listing in explorer and watching it tick down point by point with no explanation led to me doing this

of fucking course the biggest culprits were chrome and chrome related garbage.

walking mirage @atomicthumbs2/20/2024, 7:39 PM

wiztree is windirstat but it parses the NTFS MFT to work basically instantly

gannets @gannets2/20/2024, 7:49 PM

wiztree also implies a wizard is involved somehow which I like

gannets @gannets2/20/2024, 7:47 PM

how do these things keep happening to you

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