@alyth@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agoA fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the waterlemmy.worldimagemessage-square81fedilinkarrow-up1412arrow-down129file-text
arrow-up1383arrow-down1imageA fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the waterlemmy.world@alyth@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square81fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@onion@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-21 year agoHarddrives start at 16€/TB, so 500MB would be 0.008€. SSDs start at 50€/TB, so it would be 0.025€ or two-and-a-half cents
minus-square@Sethayy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish5•1 year ago Me putting a 4 TB 3.5" HDD in my phone
minus-square@onion@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoWhy are you installing Signal Desktop on your phone?
minus-squareKillingTimeItselflinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoyes but think about how much money writing 500MB worth of code would cost. I realize it’s not all code, and some of it is already written, but please, muse me, and do the math for it.
minus-square@onion@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoWriting less code costs more money. The programm is large because they slapped some existing stuff together instead of writing everything from scratch
minus-squareKillingTimeItselflinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agothere is an inevitable cost to written code though, it simply cannot be computed away. In this case the cost is just a shitty application with an even shittier user experience.
Harddrives start at 16€/TB, so 500MB would be 0.008€. SSDs start at 50€/TB, so it would be 0.025€ or two-and-a-half cents
Why are you installing Signal Desktop on your phone?
You got me there
yes but think about how much money writing 500MB worth of code would cost.
I realize it’s not all code, and some of it is already written, but please, muse me, and do the math for it.
Writing less code costs more money. The programm is large because they slapped some existing stuff together instead of writing everything from scratch
there is an inevitable cost to written code though, it simply cannot be computed away. In this case the cost is just a shitty application with an even shittier user experience.