[maxloh]

The more severe problem is that Google installs model weight files on a per-user basis, meaning Chrome occupies 4 more GB of space for every OS user on your device.

[bityard]

The company I work at has several environments and hundreds of VDI users in each environment. Chrome is the default browser in all of them. By my rough napkin math, this one small change by Google will eat up at least 15 terabytes of new disk space in total. (I sure hope we are using deduplication at the physical storage layer...)

[throwway120385]

It's fine. Network and disk space are free, right?

[charcircuit]

Compared to human labor it is.

[account42]

Only because those who can save on the labor are not paying for the increased resource use in the first place.

[niutech]

Serious question: why do you use Google Chrome in the first place, when there are better alternatives, e.g. Brave (crypto stuff could be easily disabled) or Vivaldi, both with adblocker?

[tbrownaw]

Shouldn't the filesystem be set to encrypt everything before it hits the physical storage layer?

[dburkland]

Thankfully deduplication is a thing ;)

[Pay08]

I certainly hope you don't automatically update.

[TheRealDunkirk]

Does your place review every line of every update patch note? Do you think you would catch this implication?

[BiteCode_dev]

Does each playwright (or similar automation system) count as a different user, and does it keep the model around ?

If yes, it's an interesting API to call when a AI crawler hit your website.

[emegeve83]

For every profile.

[ai-x]

4GB, $0.10 (whatever the HD price) that is the equivalent of a High School level intelligent brain that can perform many cognitive tasks (and in the future even PhD level intelligence) for free?

Oh, the horror!!!

Wait, let me pay my HVAC guy $500 he deserved because he came all the way from his home to replace a fuse

[recursive]

It doesn't make sense to apply wholesale prices for mass storage. People are running Chrome on specific devices that they already own. Storage is not fungible in this way.

[beedeebeedee]

If you’re pissed you had to pay your HVAC guy to drive to your house and do something you think is trivial, why didn’t you do it yourself?

[account42]

As the saying goes, gp didn't pay $500 to have the fuse replaced, he paid $500 for the training and experience that was required to know that the fuse had to be replaced.

[froggit]

> 4GB, $0.10 (whatever the HD price) that is the equivalent of a High School level intelligent brain that can perform many cognitive tasks for free?

This is better than my current solution of an actual human with masters degreed intelligence performing all my cognitive tasks for free how? I mean, i'm the first to admit i'm extremely lazy and even i'm over here like "really??"

[hansmayer]

> Wait, let me pay my HVAC guy $500 he deserved because he came all the way from his home to replace a fuse

Right, because its totally something an LLM can do, right?

[verisimi]

Here is your google brain on your device, whether you want it or not.

[mcmcmc]

I don’t think you understand what “free” means

[SkiFire13]

Tell that to Apple, I'm sure they will allow me to pay $0.025/GB for additional storage on my Macbook /s

[tayo42]

It's annoyingly imposible to add more disk space to laptops. I think mine is soldered.

[account42]

Apple laptops maybe. In many others it's just a normal M.2 NVMe module behind a screwed on bottom case plate.