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Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage
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Re: Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage
#63And Claude is hogging 12G for Cowork which I don’t want.
It's possible to get rid of it. Just delete the VM Bundle file(s) and add `"secureVmFeaturesEnabled": false` to your `claude_desktop_config.json`. You can find more info here: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22543#issue...
That was the first thing I did, it still recreated it. Surprisingly
But maybe that was a me error and worth a second shot.
Re: Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ironically, the AI datacenter boom is also buying up all the storage.
Is that true? It feels wrong. Consumer grade SSDs and spinning disks are unlikely to be the products used in enterprise.
Look at SSD prices over the last 6 months.
https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/internal-hard-drive/
Re: Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage
#65Hogging? This is a dvd worth of data on systems that likely store 200 times that while Microsoft delivers 20 gb updates that they just leave duplicates of laying around. People are really acting like storage is precious… it’s not 1995. Uninstall the software if you don’t like it. Chrome isn’t the only browser…
I might be more inclined to be understanding of this conversation if it was related to mobile phones, but desktops? I get that people think it should be opt-in, and I’m on the fence. There is also a simple way to disable on-device AI features. Outside of the “we never want AI” crowd, which fine whatever, I don’t get this weird focus on a 4gb in size. Maybe I’m just old and remember what it was like for disk space to actually be precious.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
1. I've got a Chrome local model stored on my drive 2. I see a heavily promoted "AI search" box in chrome Natural Conclusion: when I use all the promoted AI features in chrome it's using the local AI model. This is not true; Google is being intentionally misleading.
I suspect the type of person who is even aware of this 4GB blob is the type of person who would research its usage. Pretty high venn diagram crossover.
Yeah. The fictional user doesn’t know anything about AI but knows about this 4gb file…because of news stories about how bad a 4gb file must be. Outside of that, they don’t know or care and wonder if that means that need to add some more “memory” to their computer.
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#67I couldn't care less about this, it's not in the top 1 million problems. If this is an issue for you, seriously re-evaluate how you spend your time.