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140 MB is not much when storage has been in the multi hundred GB for more than a decade. These days, a 1TB ssd is affordable.


There are comments elsewhere in the thread about this, but storage is not the only thing in play here: bandwidth (even in modern countries some rural places have very slow connections), energy use (it takes proportionally more electricity to transfer 140 MB vs. 1 MB, and running an UI that basically needs a web browser in the background is also a waste of electricity). Moreover in some countries a 1 TB SSD is not exactly affordable. And also in western economies, it might not be affordable for some people.




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