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    From Grimble@2:250/1 to All on Sat Dec 13 13:19:27 2025
    I keep getting messages about my home drive running out of space. With
    the help of du and sdiff -s, I found that .cache/google-chrome/Profile 1/Cache/Cache-Data was filling up at the rate of 260KiB every 6
    seconds, connected to Chrome playing BBC radio. I listen to internet
    radio for long periods, so it's not surprising. Time to switch (back) to Firefox?
    Bah!
    --
    Grimble
    Machine 'Haydn' running Plasma 5.27.10 on 6.6.116-desktop-1.mga9 kernel.
    Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64


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  • From Daniel70@2:250/1 to All on Sun Dec 14 08:58:04 2025
    On 14/12/2025 12:19 am, Grimble wrote:
    I keep getting messages about my home drive running out of space. With
    the help of du and sdiff -s, I found that .cache/google-chrome/Profile 1/Cache/Cache-Data was filling up at the rate of 260KiB every 6
    seconds, connected to Chrome playing BBC radio. I listen to internet
    radio for long periods, so it's not surprising. Time to switch (back) to Firefox?
    Bah!

    Either that or stop your Radio program and empty your Cache.

    Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Cache .... Clear Cache button

    Then restart your radio program.
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    Daniel70

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  • From TJ@2:250/1 to All on Mon Dec 15 13:28:14 2025
    On 2025-12-13 08:19, Grimble wrote:
    I keep getting messages about my home drive running out of space. With
    the help of du and sdiff -s, I found that .cache/google-chrome/Profile 1/Cache/Cache-Data was filling up at the rate of 260KiB every 6
    seconds, connected to Chrome playing BBC radio. I listen to internet
    radio for long periods, so it's not surprising. Time to switch (back) to Firefox?
    Bah!

    Remember the days when Google's motto was supposed to be 'Don't be evil?'

    They lied.

    TJ

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  • From William Unruh@2:250/1 to All on Mon Dec 15 18:23:37 2025
    On 2025-12-15, TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> wrote:
    On 2025-12-13 08:19, Grimble wrote:
    I keep getting messages about my home drive running out of space. With
    the help of du and sdiff -s, I found that .cache/google-chrome/Profile
    1/Cache/Cache-Data was filling up at the rate of 260KiB every 6
    seconds, connected to Chrome playing BBC radio. I listen to internet
    radio for long periods, so it's not surprising. Time to switch (back) to
    Firefox?
    Bah!

    Remember the days when Google's motto was supposed to be 'Don't be evil?'


    The above however is not evidence of that. It could equally be a mistake
    or a bug. It looks like they are saving the audio in the cache (40KB/s
    is the standard audio rate), and they are probably saving it until you
    stop running that program. Whether that is a good thing (having the
    previous and future stuff on the local system so you can easily page
    back or forward-- you do not say whether these are recorded broadcasts
    or live)-- withough needing to re-download load everything again), or bad (filling up your memory
    probably depends on your situation or likes.


    They lied.

    About what? I have never seen them claim that they would not save stuff
    on your disk. Just because you do not like their choice of default
    behaviour does not mean either that they or evil or that they lied.



    TJ

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Wed Dec 17 21:29:54 2025
    On 16/12/25 00:28, TJ wrote:


    Remember the days when Google's motto was supposed to be 'Don't be evil?'

    They lied.

    TJ

    That did elicit a laugh at the time


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    faeychild
    Running kde on 6.6.116-desktop-1.mga9 kernel.
    Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Wed Dec 17 21:29:59 2025
    On 16/12/25 00:28, TJ wrote:


    Remember the days when Google's motto was supposed to be 'Don't be evil?'

    They lied.

    TJ

    That did elicit a laugh at the time


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    faeychild
    Running kde on 6.6.116-desktop-1.mga9 kernel.
    Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64

    --- MBSE BBS v1.1.1 (Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: A noiseless patient Spider (2:250/1@fidonet)
  • From Grimble@2:250/1 to All on Fri Dec 19 12:47:02 2025
    On 13/12/2025 13:19, Grimble wrote:
    I keep getting messages about my home drive running out of space. With
    the help of du and sdiff -s, I found that .cache/google-chrome/Profile 1/Cache/Cache-Data was filling up at the rate of 260KiB every 6
    seconds, connected to Chrome playing BBC radio. I listen to internet
    radio for long periods, so it's not surprising. Time to switch (back) to Firefox?
    Bah!
    Thanks for your comments. I've decided to run Chrome only when I need it.
    G

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    Grimble
    Machine 'Haydn' running Plasma 5.27.10 on 6.6.116-desktop-1.mga9 kernel.
    Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64

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  • From William Unruh@2:250/1 to All on Mon Dec 22 00:04:36 2025
    On 2025-12-19, Grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
    On 13/12/2025 13:19, Grimble wrote:
    I keep getting messages about my home drive running out of space. With
    the help of du and sdiff -s, I found that .cache/google-chrome/Profile
    1/Cache/Cache-Data was filling up at the rate of 260KiB every 6
    seconds, connected to Chrome playing BBC radio. I listen to internet
    radio for long periods, so it's not surprising. Time to switch (back) to
    Firefox?
    Bah!
    Thanks for your comments. I've decided to run Chrome only when I need it.

    You could try chromium instead. Alternatively as kludge run a crontab
    which empies the cache evry minute or so of the bbc radio caches.
    G


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