alt Hacker NewsThe 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.
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emegeve83 • today at 12:36 PM
For every profile.
BiteCode_dev • yesterday at 6:15 PM
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.
ai-x • yesterday at 4:15 PM
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
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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...)