after competent programmers in a nurturing environment (read: not a zio vibe code factory with suspiciously pristine and unworn children's playground equipment next to closets where the doors have burst open, spilling skeletons onto the floor) solved this shit in the 70s and 80s on Jurassic Park looking ass mini-and-microcomputers running Unix on hard drives with more "platters" than the Big America from McDonald's Israel [TRANSLATION SETTING: AMERO-ISRAELI HIGH GOTHIC]

Remember WinFS? Sorry! Billy Gates needs 25% of your disk bandwidth for file indexing and "library" maintenance services instead (Note: Windows has-a-right-to-Defender-itself resource usage not included) cuz even a fuckin database was too ambitious for them

This post inspired by Steam PRE-ALLOCATING DISK SPACE ON A FUCKIN NETWORK FILESYSTEM on the other corpo OS, Linux, which MOSTLY* does not suffer from this problem despite some programmers' best efforts

*Somewhat unrelated but do you have a BTRFS filesystem that you put under even moderate IO and space pressure? Did you know the traditional 'df' command no longer necessarily accurately reports free disk space on your system? I learned this recently when I had something like 8 or 9 gb free on a small btrfs filesystem but writes were failing because of ENOSPC and I was baffled and started deleting fucking everything only for that to fail cuz of ENOSPC jesse-wtf and it still wasn't fuckin working until I ran 'btrfs filesystem df' to see that some infernal internal block allocator had somehow got itself into a situation where it was wasting so much space I couldn't even delete files to free space. I had to run some fuckin balancing tool to get it to work right again

PSA: run 'btrfs filesystem df' on your system to see how much space your local incompetent shit corpo OS filesystem is wasting on your system :3

Look at this line Data, smth: total=XGiB, used=YGiB and take the difference of X and Y to see how much more data can actually fit on your disk. aware Oh fuck I just realized the call is coming from within the house

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[–] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

yeah i love KDE but discover is just bad software and not a sane alternative to traditional package management