jckarter

everyone already knows i'm a dog

the swift programming language is my fault to some degree. mostly here to see dogs, shitpost, fix old computers, and/or talk about math and weird computer programming things. for effortposts check the #longpost pinned tag. asks are open.


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jckarter

i'm old enough to remember when "a gigabyte of storage, you never have to delete anythnig" was Gmail's headline feature. now apparently 2GB is small enough to start pushing upsells for?


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in reply to @jckarter's post:

One thing that's changed is that back then, that storage was exclusively Gmail.

Nowadays, Google Photos and Google Drive draw from the same pool of space. Docs and Sheets are free, but any files you upload to either Photos or Drive count against your storage quota.

Arguably it should be configurable. Probably the folks who need this the most are folks who have their phone set to auto-upload to Google Photos; you could chew through 2 GB with a single day's worth of vacation/travel photos easily. Those of us who don't could probably do with a higher alert threshold.