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Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW

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Re: Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW

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Post by msk-lywenn »

tw600040 wrote: post #11

the biggest problem with switching away from Mac is losing the ecosystem benefits. When Apple TV automatically knows to fill your iCloud password, all the Apple Watch integration, syncing everything from notes to reminders. I can't see how any Linux can match all that.

It's rather easy to change the password provider from Apple's to something else, like bitwarden, on an iPad or an iPhone. I assume it's possible on Apple TV too.

I tried syncing notes with IMAP but I never managed to get it to work.

For the Apple Watch, I don't have one or any "smart" watch so I can't say anything.

Re: Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW

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Post by arcanemachiner »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #16

It's sort of insane to switch to an almost completely unrelated operating system because of such a trivial feature as a screensaver. It doesn't download those screensavers unprompted, you have to actually select them in the System Settings. It's hard to believe that anyone who thought that a Mac was the right computer for them could so easily switch to Linux on hardware which has a great number of unsupported feature…

It's possible that they were looking for a reason to do it anyway, and this was just the straw that broke the camel's back.

I agree with you though: From the outside, this does seem like a strange response to the issue.

Re: Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW

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Post by Lalabadie »

notdian wrote: post #6
sbierwagen wrote: post #5

% du -hcs "/Library/Application Support/com.apple.idleassetsd/Customer/" 5.1M /Library/Application Support/com.apple.idleassetsd/Customer/ 5.1M total Is this only a thing in latest Sequoia? I've been clicking "remind me later" on the upgrade prompts for a couple weeks, since it seems like there's a story like this with every big release.

I must have used the shuffle screensaver. Who knew a ‘harmless’ feature could quietly eat up ~50 GB of space and bandwidth?

That folder is 5gb on my Air, at 300-400mb per video.

I have a category selected that says it's 22 possible videos, and out of those only 18 are currently cached on my machine. It looks like that directory is kept pruned at least occasionally.

Nonetheless, just an indication of the potential size on disk would keep users aware when they pick these screensavers. An explicit "Screensaver videos" category in the disk usage graph is also a good solution.

Re: Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW

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Post by notdian »

AstroBen wrote: post #22

> Running Sway now my whole session (Firefox open) uses around 2 GB of RAM Well shit yeah that's definitely a problem! Is your OS not making good use of your available memory?

Definitely helps. MacOS was using about 10 GB of RAM by default, and with rust-analyzer and other projects running the system now swaps much less — so my SSD should last longer.

Re: Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW

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Post by black_puppydog »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #16

It's sort of insane to switch to an almost completely unrelated operating system because of such a trivial feature as a screensaver. It doesn't download those screensavers unprompted, you have to actually select them in the System Settings. It's hard to believe that anyone who thought that a Mac was the right computer for them could so easily switch to Linux on hardware which has a great number of unsupported feature…

That reads a lot like complaining that the author just didn't hear the gospel...

Re: Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW

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Post by fsckboy »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #16

It's sort of insane to switch to an almost completely unrelated operating system because of such a trivial feature as a screensaver. It doesn't download those screensavers unprompted, you have to actually select them in the System Settings. It's hard to believe that anyone who thought that a Mac was the right computer for them could so easily switch to Linux on hardware which has a great number of unsupported feature…

>It's hard to believe that anyone who thought that a Mac was the right computer for them could so easily switch to Linux on hardware which has a great number of unsupported features

his story makes complete sense in the space in which he wrote it, and therefore you are writing complete nonsense. sounds to me like he was already familiar with unix style computing, and he didn't get a mac originally because it supported something that linux didn't, like most users. "with the Mac it just works" is a 30 or more year ago marketing message

still, this was the last straw for him, as he literally said, enough was enough.

Re: Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW

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Post by rcarmo »

frizlab wrote: post #20
dagmx wrote: post #10

It doesn’t download these by default. All the wallpaper and screensaver downloads are user initiated in their respective UI. Did you click the download button on them by any chance, and forget about it?

And you can remove them once you downloaded them. Basically OP wanted a reason to switch would be my guess.

…and has loads of free time.

Re: Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW

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Post by notdian »

rcarmo wrote: post #29

I’d be really interested in understanding how real this is since I have most of them on disk and only a small percentage of that disk space. And they’re not 240fps.

similar case https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255329956?sortBy=rank .
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