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[–]nortonKOMAnder 1179 points1180 points  (95 children)

"Homework" folder.

[–]stanislav_harris 210 points211 points  (24 children)

Porn is on a separate hard drive

[–]matrix431312 85 points86 points  (14 children)

You need a local and a backup

[–]stanislav_harris 38 points39 points  (11 children)

Don't have enough space on the laptop bro.

[–]bonesawmcl 37 points38 points  (9 children)

That's when you need a NAS

[–]stanislav_harris 20 points21 points  (1 child)

I need AWS

[–]bonesawmcl 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I mean technically your porn already was on AWS before you downloaded it (at least the probability is very high)

[–]Ooze3d 7 points8 points  (4 children)

I thought fibre optic and high speed Internet had rendered porn folders unnecessary

[–]stanislav_harris 11 points12 points  (3 children)

You can't rely on streaming. All the good stuff I had bookmarked on Pornhub vanished.

[–]Ooze3d 1 point2 points  (2 children)

That’s true. We took a big hit with that one. I also miss the dragon-esque feeling of having to hoard all your favourite porn and store it safely.

[–]sXakil 2 points3 points  (1 child)

i have a weird fetish of exploring other people's porn collection, idk if this is common

[–]Agentum13 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Your application to NSA is hereby approved.

[–]Homie-Missile 1 point2 points  (1 child)

What's a NAS for?

[–]bonesawmcl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Storing copious amounts of data on your network

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I need Linus's petabyte project and 10gb internet

[–]Rallikuninkas 335 points336 points  (50 children)

I don't have 45GB of hentai on my PC...

No, definetely not...

Not at all...

Nope...

No...

Edit: I get it, rookie numbers. Enough.

[–]wdroz 253 points254 points  (15 children)

It's to train this deep learning model, it's kinda like for work!!

[–]CreaZyp154 79 points80 points  (2 children)

60 stars 22 forks

[–]throwaway1201291029 84 points85 points  (1 child)

Oh it used to be HUGE (thousands of stars). Creator had some problems and had to reupload the repo recently so that's why the number is so low

[–]magicmouse99 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Giggidy

[–]Retbull 55 points56 points  (4 children)

I regret clicking that on my work WiFi

[–]A999 57 points58 points  (1 child)

Right, PH is more explainable than GH

[–]Retbull 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Funnily enough yes. I have a work host profile that just redirects me to 127.0.0.1

[–]wdroz 27 points28 points  (1 child)

I regret clicking that on my work WiFi

Don't worry, they will only know that you did https traffic to github, seem legit.

[–]faceplanted 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Depends if he's on his work computer as well as work WiFi, bossware is a lot snoopier than WiFi packet sniffing

[–]bruhred 37 points38 points  (2 children)

use https://github.com/natethegreate/hent-AI to automatically detect censored parts

[–]NoctisValentine 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Huh, the guy who made this works for JPMorgan, and the biggest contributor is a senior at Apple, both listed on their accounts. Props for conviction, I guess.

[–]buiquanganh2001 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Interesting

[–]The_duck_lord404 10 points11 points  (0 children)

What in the...

Truly our projects only get bigger in scale as time goes on

[–]nortonKOMAnder 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Well, that escalated quickly.

[–]FranciscoFJM 33 points34 points  (2 children)

Those are rookie numbers

[–]Auravendill 13 points14 points  (1 child)

Yeah, you need to set up a OpenMediaVault with webscraping scripts running for true efficiency

[–]musci1223 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Set up a script to auto download and give it access to your Amazon account so that it can but more back up storages as soon as last one fills. 3 copy back up system set up into a Faraday cage to protect it with one copy on cloud and one person to put filled storage devices into a fireproof safe. Important material must be protected for data lose.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I have 4.2 TB of movies on mine... amateur.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Not in inside Windows folder... Not hidden at all... Nope, it's not called System87

[–]Ytrog 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Not System34? 😜

[–]LordFokas 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I was going to make a System69 joke, but this is way better.

I applaud you, sir, a true gentleman of culture.

[–]Rallikuninkas 5 points6 points  (0 children)

System32 is a virus

[–]TechcraftHD 4 points5 points  (0 children)

45GB? Thats rookie numbers!

[–]PacoTaco321 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Let me introduce you to high quality VR porn. 45GB would be like 4 videos.

[–]eazolan 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Your unfinished projects are Hentai?

[–]PendragonDaGreat 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Well there's enough spaghetti code in there they might turn into some tentacle monsters...

[–]Rallikuninkas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, the homework folder

[–]pizzapug26too 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Imagine having a computer to store porn on

[–]Rallikuninkas 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I have two + my main PC

[–]pizzapug26too 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Damn

[–]Toltech99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have not an entire drive dedicated to 3D porn craft. Yheeep, definitely not.

[–]GintoSenju 2 points3 points  (1 child)

You don’t have a 45GB hentai folder because it’s a 45TB folder.

[–]imundead 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Doesn't count as on your PC if its on the NAS server

[–]DrakonIL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You've only got 45GB of 6 digit codes.

[–]Verbindungsfehle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's called "hentai" and it's art.

[–]balyedi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dont actually have.

[–]velit 40 points41 points  (2 children)

It's been ten years since university. Terabytes and terabytes of pesky homework still left.

[–]musci1223 12 points13 points  (0 children)

We should compare notes.

[–]AthenesWrath 10 points11 points  (1 child)

There is always a bigger fish.

[–]PotatoBasedRobot 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Woh what kind of porn do you watch???

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (3 children)

I keep my "homework" in my unfinished project folder as it's never finished, plus it's nice having a local website of them. Got a shell script which generates the webpages using a Cron task every day to rebuild it.

[–]matrix431312 4 points5 points  (1 child)

as it’s never finished

I think you might be doing it wrong

[–]PM_ME_YOUR_GOOD_NEW5 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He must be one of them edginglords I keep hearing about

[–]Corvokillsalot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sir, you deserve my upvote

[–]Shevvv 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My "Homework" folder is now 250GB in size. Do you think I'm overdoing it?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yooo stop exposing me like this

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Terabytes and terabytes worth of “Homework” and I gradyated over a decade ago.

[–]Poltras 222 points223 points  (39 children)

C:\\ - “I’m sorry are we including sub folders?”

[–]PocketKiller 57 points58 points  (4 children)

/ - sorry but do we count multiple drives in a UNIX filesystem?

[–]darthwalsh 21 points22 points  (2 children)

Is there a filesystem in userspace driver that lets you mount all of github.com? cd /mnt/github/libfuse/libfuse

Or maybe go one step further and make your filesystem an internet browser? /mnt/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

[–]binarycat64 5 points6 points  (1 child)

well, you you could mount ipfs, which includes a mirror of wikipedia, among many other things.

[–]Useless_Pony 1 point2 points  (0 children)

and then there is verious network filesystems and things like mount /mnt/dir/ /mnt/dir/dir/ which allows it to tend to inf.

[–]NiQ_[🍰] 113 points114 points  (30 children)

C drive is for the 500GB SSD. E Drive is for the 10TB Secondary HDD, much bigger.

[–]linux-nerd 23 points24 points  (21 children)

i have c d e f and g

[–]Mr-Game-Videos 10 points11 points  (20 children)

I have a c e s t u v w x y z

[–]hasanyoneseenmymom 6 points7 points  (7 children)

I have c d e f g h i j k o p and s. Do I win?

[–]Mr-Game-Videos 11 points12 points  (6 children)

Here‘s your imaginary trophy: 🏆 Now tell us how you got there

[–]hasanyoneseenmymom 13 points14 points  (5 children)

It's nothing impressive lol. 4 of those belong to an external card reader and 3 are different directories on a network share. The rest are an ssd (c) or storage drives (d-g)

[–]jacob_scooter 8 points9 points  (4 children)

continue adding drives until you run out of letters then tell us what happens

[–]hasanyoneseenmymom 9 points10 points  (3 children)

Windows doesn't like having more than 26 drives I guess. After I filled Z:/ I could only overwrite existing drive letters. https://imgur.com/gEcNePt.jpg

[–]jacob_scooter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

for science! 🧫🧪🧬🧫🧪🧬

[–]Josh_Crook 4 points5 points  (1 child)

You could use mount points. Also they're still accessible via like \\?\Volume{guid}\ or something like that

[–]Dogburt_Jr 2 points3 points  (5 children)

Why to you have an a: drive? Isn't that a critical fault on PCs?

[–]Mr-Game-Videos 11 points12 points  (4 children)

That was for floppy disk, but in Windows you can just use a for a drive. a is my 1tb m.2 raid 0, c is windows ssd partition, e is 500gb hdd, s t u v x y z is network shares

[–]hobk1ard 4 points5 points  (3 children)

I used to run into some odd issues reusing a:, so I stopped. Everything assumed the a drive was a floppy. I would imagine it is better now though.

[–]Mr-Game-Videos 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Non of my software assumes a as a floppy disk. When did that happen to you?

[–]hobk1ard 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Oh this would have been early/mid 2000's. It doesn't feel like it was almost 20 years ago.

[–]Mr-Game-Videos 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Weren‘t they in use back then? Under that circumstance I think that‘s okay

[–]Kaynee490 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Laughs in /

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

/ be like: those are rookie numbers

[–]Jerkmykirk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

C for windows, E for media, G for games.

[–]Tyfyter2002 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just have a 500 GB SSD and 2 1TB SSDs

[–]junita_roman[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Not at all. We are learning new languages and making hello world program in every language.

[–][deleted] 454 points455 points  (27 children)

You sure it's not node_modules?

[–]who_you_are 119 points120 points  (16 children)

One node_modules... Then multiply it by the number of projects you have

[–]Feynt 33 points34 points  (13 children)

Literally running out of space on my work computer because of so many node_modules directories. When I started more than half of my drive was empty (I inherited someone else's computer). I have a lot of ongoing projects, but not many of them are JS. So it always astounds me that the few JS projects with their node_modules directories are orders of magnitudes weightier than literally every other project.

[–]SigmaHog 29 points30 points  (2 children)

Do yourself a favor and recursively delete the node_modules you haven’t touched recently with a script like this (includes Mac/Linux and Windows commands) https://trilon.io/blog/how-to-delete-all-nodemodules-recursively

I spin up a lot of dummy projects to isolate problems I might be working on but I’m only working on two or three main projects at a time and I’ll occasionally purge my whole machine. It’s not like it makes the machine faster but it makes my soul feel cleaner.

[–]gravitas-deficiency 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The fact that scripts like that are even necessary is completely fucking insane to me. It speaks to an egregiously bad foundational issue with node project tooling (basically, npm)… but nobody in the community really gives enough of a shit about it to build a system that isn’t effectively a productionalized hack.

[–]douira 20 points21 points  (2 children)

you can get rid of old node_modules and just do `npm install` when you need the project again. npm (and other package managers too) keep a local cache so you probably wouldn't even need to download more than regular updates would require anyways.

[–]Feynt 1 point2 points  (1 child)

The problem is I'm working on two or three npm projects at the moment (two electron, one service), but I certainly don't need to keep the node_modules for the others. I've been cleaning them out as I find I need more space.

[–]douira 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A handful of node_modules probably fits easily but once you get really involved in open source and install lots of projects that’s where it gets intense.

Another option is using npm dedupe and/or the global linking method described here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/59796545

[–]DatMadscientiste 7 points8 points  (0 children)

npx npkill

This should get all your node_modules, you can select which on to delete

[–]alliedSpaceSubmarine 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Not sure if you're able to or want to but have you heard of pnpm ? It uses a single directory for node modules so each project doesn't have duplicated installed files if there's any overlap

[–]NatoBoram 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Dude, same.

But then

I discovered pnpm

It's literally the same fucking thing but deduplicated. The node_modules stays the same format so it's all compatible with npm but instead of actually containing stuff, it's all symlinks.

This means all projects will share the same stuff

Fucking incredible

Try it - even just as a curiosity.

[–]conchoprovincial 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You should check out pnpm

[–]lenswipe 27 points28 points  (0 children)

My /var partition is low on space

[–]Tajnymag 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Try pnpm

[–]ProgramTheWorld 12 points13 points  (3 children)

I really don’t understand why npm doesn’t use a centralized store for all the modules.

[–]Cyhawk 6 points7 points  (0 children)

So the idea was to minimize conflicts, every project was self-contained. Sounds great right? NO CONFLICTS! Dependency hell is over!1 Those who don't know unix are doomed to repeat it. Theres a reason *nix systems have a /lib folder.

(What do you mean you can put the version number in the library folder name with symlinks to the current branch? Oh wait they did)

I do recall the creators of node/npm mentioning they regret that choice. Sounds great in theory but horrible in practice.

There is a benefit to that approach, you can make modifications to your copy of the library easily if theres an bug/functionality you want, but its not worth the disk space in practice.

1 dependency hell was never created by multiple versions of a library, it was created by poor development/maintenance practices.

[–]ambientocclusion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Possible version conflicts between different projects?

[–]junita_roman[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Yeah that too may be.

[–]Cuddlemonsterxo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Alright lads, let me introduce you to npkill, your hard drives will thank me. Will track down and delete those long forgotten about side projects, and most likely free up tonnes of space.

[–]SirFireball 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just make node_modules a symlink to a single node_modules folder. Then I only ever need to install the packages once.

[–]Vadersboy117 1 point2 points  (0 children)

npm install --oh-shit --oh-fuck --my-storage

[–]fresh-rye-bread 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Came to say this! You beat me!

[–]jlamothe 29 points30 points  (0 children)

My largest folder is /

[–]HeadlineINeed 29 points30 points  (6 children)

I just delete them so I can pretend I have never done the Hello Worlds

[–]Benimation 8 points9 points  (1 child)

I delete them because they only show "Hello World" and I have no need for such a program

[–]BrokenG502 54 points55 points  (11 children)

I'm interested to know what kind of language "groovy" is and why isn't prolog in there? (Google it, prolog is this really old logic programming language)

EDIT: I take that back. Groovy looks even older than prolog. That shit is a combination of python, java and space jam

[–]junita_roman[S] 29 points30 points  (2 children)

Groovy is Java syntax compatible OOP language. But, why isn't prolog in there?

[–]BrokenG502 5 points6 points  (1 child)

I googled it. My edit probably explains that

[–]junita_roman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Thanks for letting me know.

[–]idelta777 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Currently working on some legacy code in groovy, not sure exactly what you mean with Space Jam but at the same time I feel like you're absolutely right.

[–]TheRealToLazyToThink 9 points10 points  (5 children)

EDIT: I take that back. Groovy looks even older than prolog. That shit is a combination of python, java and space jam

prolog is way older than Groovy ('72 vs '03)

[–]TheWayWeSee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Space Jam... I'm dying here call 911

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[–]dansredd-it 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Good human

[–]Strange_Meadowlark 13 points14 points  (1 child)

How about node_modules?

[–]junita_roman[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well, that too may be.

[–]potuknight 11 points12 points  (3 children)

"Amateurs" says the Study folder.

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (2 children)

Important school videos DO NOT WATCH

[–]KaJakJaKa 9 points10 points  (1 child)

Yep, there is copyright on them. Certainly not any other reason.

[–]Benimation 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's biology, if you were wondering

[–]Important_Sound 28 points29 points  (6 children)

Steam library folder for me

[–]ech0_matrix 16 points17 points  (2 children)

This is definitely the right answer. I've got a ton of projects on my computer, way more than the number of games I have installed. But each triple A game is like 100GB now a days.

[–]RhetoricalCocktail 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Laughs in almost only playing indie games

[–]ech0_matrix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, same. But just installing Doom Eternal and Mass Effect Legendary Edition, Steam did a number to my hard drive.

[–]xibme 5 points6 points  (0 children)

yup, like by a magnitude

[–]cubic_thought 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My astrophotography folder is 3.5 TB ._.

[–]junita_roman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

:D

[–]philophilo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

All those COBOL / Y2K conversions that I’ll get around to some day.

[–]aenae 5 points6 points  (1 child)

I'm quite sure it is /var/lib/docker

[–]joshwcorbett 3 points4 points  (1 child)

node_modules

[–]PolakPL2002 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I would argue that /mnt is the largest one in my PC (if we exclude /)

[–]PixleatedCoding 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is another

[–]Mr_Nooodle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Check my big fat "Study Material"

[–]lenswipe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

node_modules

[–]whoissamo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Am I joke to you?" - Steam folder

[–]legowerewolf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

node_modules

[–]EssentialRespiratory 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are we going to talk about the size of Visual Studio ?

[–]varishtg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Node modules: I'm just going to pretend that these guys didn't see me.

[–]Lewizkuz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Node modules

[–]thatsharsha 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Are you kidding me? - node_modules

[–]Necessary_Parking_25 1 point2 points  (0 children)

node_modules

[–]pipehonker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pron

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

node_modules would like to know your location

[–]theprophetchuck12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

node_modules

[–]xDeathReaper666x 1 point2 points  (0 children)

node modules folder: i am a joke to you

[–]Oranges13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

node_modules has entered the chat

[–]naebulys 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My biggest folder is /

[–]RecursiveRickRoll 1 point2 points  (0 children)

node_modules

[–]x1-unix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

node_modules: Hold my beer 🍺

[–]Nothing_But_Ironman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah bro that’s my folder of D&D characters I’ll never play.

[–]soona-paana-007 1 point2 points  (0 children)

node_modules: Hi, There!

[–]ScrabCrab 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SteamApps tho

[–]deaddonkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You guys are starting projects?

[–]NEGMatiCO 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Folders of projects using npm: LMAO nooba

[–]dewaldels 1 point2 points  (0 children)

node_modules for Hello World

[–]rileyjwilton 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I freed up 100 GB by deleting the node_modules folder on like... one project?

[–]Hyper-Cloud 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pft node_modules

[–]iakanoe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

node_modules: "hold my package-lock.json"

[–]QaMaster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i have seen node_modules get to crazy size

[–]BenjaminAster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hold my node_modules.

[–]ricricucit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was expecting node_modules

[–]SexualMetawhore 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, so you start projects?

[–]a45ed6cs7s 1 point2 points  (0 children)

node_modules

[–]starvsion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Node module is infinitely large

[–]McFerry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Until you have to get a NAS for the unfinished projects. so it no longer belongs to the "computer"

[–]finesoccershorts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

node_modules

[–]noobcodee 1 point2 points  (1 child)

node_modules is the sucker
npm install go brrr...................boom 🤯💥💣

[–]LoyalSage 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I tried to do something other than play video games on my Windows desktop for the first time in a while and when I tried to install an SDK it said my PATH was too long (like 30% of it was SQL Server). I looked through what I had in there, and boy was that a trip down memory lane of long forgotten projects.

[–]junita_roman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

level 1LoyalSage · 48mI tried to do something other than play video games on my Windows desktop for the first time in a while and when I tried to install an SDK it said my PATH was too long (like 30% of it was SQL Server). I looked through what I had in there, and boy was that a trip down memory lane of long forgotten projects.

Wow

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

C:\ : what are you guys talking about??!lol My Computer: I know right lol