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> You are conflating disk and memory. I never conflated anything. I said it's a neglible amount of space for current hardware, which I still believe. If anything, the fact that I think the amount of space is acceptable for the amount of ram a modern laptop has exaggerates the point. > There’s a reason they picked an opt-out model for this, and not an opt-in approach. That's the approach they take for most of their fe…
> I never conflated anything. I said it's a neglible amount of space for current hardware, which I still believe. > > If anything, the fact that I think the amount of space is acceptable for the amount of ram a modern laptop has exaggerates the point. How does the memory usage of your browser tabs relate to the amount of disk space taken up by the downloaded models? > That's the approach they take for most of their f…
I am talking about space in general. Data size. The relation of data stored in one place vs another is the fact they both store *data*. The components to store data can be cheaper or more expensive based on how it's architected. The fact I still see 4GB as an acceptable cost in ram exaggerates the point because it shows that I'm okay with 4GB being consumed in a relatively expensive component used for data storage (meaning I'd obviously be okay with it being stored on hard disk).
> if and when they decide to pick a model that isn’t half brain dead (apparently it’s based on Gemma 3)
Gemma 3 is far from brain dead and can be used for a variety of different tasks, translation being one I've personally used it for.