sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agoGoogle Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.www.thatprivacyguy.comexternal-linkmessage-square334linkfedilinkarrow-up11.03Karrow-down123cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zipprivacy@programming.devtechnology@beehaw.orghackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
arrow-up11.01Karrow-down1external-linkGoogle Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.www.thatprivacyguy.comsanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square334linkfedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zipprivacy@programming.devtechnology@beehaw.orghackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
minus-squareruby@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·8 days agomy entire /usr directory is just a bit above 4 gigabytes. you can put a fully featured modern operating system into that size, or you can have google’s slop machine that no one asked for
minus-squareMangoCats@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·8 days agoI agree, it’s heinous, but how else are they going to sell MOAR RAM, MOAR SSD, MOAR MOAR?
my entire /usr directory is just a bit above 4 gigabytes. you can put a fully featured modern operating system into that size, or you can have google’s slop machine that no one asked for
I agree, it’s heinous, but how else are they going to sell MOAR RAM, MOAR SSD, MOAR MOAR?