sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 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-square332linkfedilinkarrow-up11.02Karrow-down122cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgtechnology@lemmy.zipprivacy@lemmy.world
arrow-up11Karrow-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 · 7 days agomessage-square332linkfedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgtechnology@lemmy.zipprivacy@lemmy.world
minus-squareruby@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·7 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-down2·7 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?