The template of this meme is that of the man who cheerfully points his hand at a butterfly, asking “Is this a pigeon”?. In this meme, the man has been covered with icons of the applications IntelliJ, VSCode, Chromium and Signal. The butterfly which he points to is overlaid with the caption “.config”. He asks “Is this a trash can?” At the bottom of the image, we see the command du -sh executed on the directories .config/chromium/ and .config/Code, yielding file sizes of 1016M and 83M respectively.

    • onlinepersona@programming.dev
      27·
      9 hours ago

      The signal community should band together and write a signal client that doesn’t use the waste of space called electron. There is a rust library for signal and slint for cross platform UIs. Slint is even working (slowly) on mobile targets

      Anti Commercial-AI license

    • CronyAkatsukiA
      421·
      14 hours ago

      I use ungoogled chromium, but only for sites that absolutelly don’y wanna work on firefox.

      • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
        14·
        10 hours ago

        I’m surprised. I haven’t had a website not work with Firefox for a long time. I haven’t even had to install chromium as a backup in almost two years now.

        • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
          2·
          3 hours ago

          I haven’t had a website not work with Firefox for a long time.

          Me too…mostly? But the cases I’ve seen or encountered are always government, financial, education, or medical websites with some super-bespoke “portal” that will simply act bizarre on Firefox.

          It really sucks that it seems so common to just glance at some “market-share” data and, not just assume everybody must use Chrome, but go so far as to force them to.

        • pufferfisherpowder@lemmy.world
          5·
          6 hours ago

          Just yesterday I had shadow.tech’s Cloudflare “vErIFY yOuR hUmAN” fail on me in Firefox. I had fucking paid for a month already otherwise that would have been enough to turn me off.

        • devfuuu@lemmy.world
          5·
          9 hours ago

          They are out there. I also have it around for those occasions. More common that you’d expect. Almost always some shitty site needed for work that has problems.

      • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        13 hours ago

        Same but I use Cromite or i try using a electron app (like heroic) on my pc.

    • Engywuck@lemm.ee
      111·
      13 hours ago

      Firefox saves its config outside of .config/ as well, IIRC. Can’t check now, I have actually put that crappy browser in the trash bin long ago.