I do not agree: I live by the sea and this is exactly the answer I get when I talk about trash in the sea. I personally appreciate even more that kind of "stretch" then the privacy one (which could be another "stretch" on getting closer to 1984 scenario)

▲ TheServitor 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I guess you can write an article about every new gigabyte released, and we can use more gigabytes talking about it, but other than that I don't see that any one gigabyte of software I don't want is especially more noteworthy than any other gigabyte of software I don't want.

An xBox game can be 50+ gigs. Millions of gamers. Fire up the presses!

I'm not at all saying nothing matters so we shouldn't care. I just disagree about the utility of calling out specific things out of proportion to their place in the climate crisis. Tackle AI, yes, and fast fashion and cars, and ... that one change to Chrome? I guess if that's where you want to put your energy, Sisyphus.

	▲	b40d-48b2-979e 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		`I don't see that any one gigabyte of software I don't want is especially more noteworthy than any other gigabyte of software I don't want.` I feel like you're being intentionally naive here. There's a difference between a forum using up a gig here or there, and one of the biggest software makers in the world shipping 4GB to all of its millions of users (if not billions at this point).
	▲	lstodd an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> An xBox game can be 50+ gigs. In my experience a game worth playing never exceeded 1 (one) gig in size. It is only incompetent creators that feel the need to bury their incompetence under gigabytes of irrelevance.