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pdntspa | on: Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning
Equally egregious are applications that insist on using the primary disk to cache model data/sample data/whatever
zbentley | parent
What should they do instead?

Like, assuming they need the data and it's inconveniently large to fit into RAM, where/how should they store and access it if not the primary disk?

mock-possum | root | parent
They should ask. Let users specify a scratch / cache location - preferably fast storage that’s not The OS drive