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‪fun fact: despite me not having put much effort into size optimisation, touchHLE passes this. on the other hand, every Electron app fails‬

‪honestly i'm not even joking here, these are reasonable guidelines. if the full version of a piece of software that isn't like, a game, demands more than a gigabyte of disk space then something is seriously wrong, and few things should need even a tenth of that‬

‪maybe the way to feel like you have a powerful computer is to only use software from back when cpu speed, memory and disk space were treated as precious. (slaps lid of macbook with 8GB ram and 512GB ssd) this bad boy can fit sooo many serious 1990's productivity apps in it‬

@hikari Remember when, as late as 2011, nearly all major linux distros were able to fit into a single CD (not DVD):

- an entire OS (with multiple locales, the most common non-free codecs + drivers)
- one of the "heavyweight" desktop environments (and sometimes options for a lightweight WM like openbox as a fallback AND compiz for extra flair too)
- a full web browser, email client, video player, music player, office suite, pdf viewer, image editor, some simple games...
- and a whole bunch of other software depending on distro (IRC, FTP, remote desktop, bittorrent, blogging client, python, etc)

Sure, Live CDs used a lot of compression and legacy x86 releases tended to be a bit smaller than x86_64 and even then there was a shift to bigger ISOs that needed DVDs and USB instead...

...but idk, we're at a point where a lot of software I *have* to use is anywhere from 1/5 to 1/2 the size of an entire live cd image a decade ago

@hokaze @hikari I liked #DamnSmallLinux a lot back then. It was much much smaller in the past.
https://www.damnsmalllinux.org

@hikari totally agree, though if you were getting 20MB in under an hour on dialup, that's some crazy dialup... Best I ever got sustained was about 7KB/s 😛

@Cwiiis you can download 20MB in less than an hour at 7KB/s

@hikari yeah, my maths was way off... I blame it being late when I made that reply, but I'll leave it there as a monument to my idiocy!