Episode 5:14: Bloat Don’t Float

2025-06-02

Coming up in this episode Death, DEATH, everywhere Not so bloated, now, is it? and Someone Agrees with US! 0:00 Cold Open 1:35 Mozilla's Making Changes... Again 24:31 Disks Hate This One Weird Trick! 54:32 The Last of the Season 5 Feedback -54:42 VesuLabs -1:03:02 stephenreaves3205 1:12:16 Next Time & Farewell (For Now) 1:17:38 Stinger The Video Version! https://youtu.be/3nbdwkgpTRA Mozilla Watch 👀 Pocket and Fakespot are ou...

Coming up in this episode

Death, DEATH, everywhere
Not so bloated, now, is it?
and Someone Agrees with US!

0:00 Cold Open
1:35 Mozilla's Making Changes... Again
24:31 Disks Hate This One Weird Trick!
54:32 The Last of the Season 5 Feedback
-54:42 VesuLabs
-1:03:02 stephenreaves3205
1:12:16 Next Time & Farewell (For Now)
1:17:38 Stinger

The Video Version!
https://youtu.be/3nbdwkgpTRA

Mozilla Watch 👀

Pocket and Fakespot are out.
Readeck is a Pocket alternative Currently it is self-hosted but they are looking to add a hosted option.
Karakeep is another alternative.
Profiles are coming soon.

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The Season Conclusion of our Flatpak/Snap adventure The numbers MacOS App ----------------- 666MB Brave 451MB Discord 651MB Element 436MB Firefox 873MB GIMP 628MB Inkscape 553MB Kdenlive 451MB OBS 303MB Telegram Windows App ----------------- 873MB Brave 468MB Discord 1.05GB Element 262MB Firefox 963MB GIMP 562MB Inkscape 1.02GB Kdenlive 394MB OBS 215MB Telegram Ubuntu Snap ----------------- 4.0K /var/lib/snapd/snaps/bare_5.snap 185M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/brave_509.snap 185M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/brave_511.snap 74M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/core22_1908.snap 74M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/core22_1963.snap 67M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/core24_888.snap 67M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/core24_988.snap 68M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/cups_1100.snap 12M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/desktop-security-center_59.snap 111M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/discord_239.snap 115M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/discord_240.snap 172M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/element-desktop_148.snap 62M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/ffmpeg-2404_59.snap 242M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/firefox_6159.snap 242M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/firefox_6198.snap 12M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/firmware-updater_167.snap 264M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gimp_517.snap 264M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gimp_519.snap 517M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-42-2204_202.snap 405M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-46-2404_90.snap 92M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gtk-common-themes_1535.snap 339M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/inkscape_10823.snap 64M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/kdenlive_119.snap 319M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/kdenlive_120.snap 1.4G /var/lib/snapd/snaps/kf6-core24_27.snap 208M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/mesa-2404_495.snap 576M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/obs-studio_1302.snap 4.0K /var/lib/snapd/snaps/partial 15M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/prompting-client_104.snap 45M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/snapd_23771.snap 51M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/snapd_24505.snap 568K /var/lib/snapd/snaps/snapd-desktop-integration_253.snap 11M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/snap-store_1270.snap 446M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/telegram-desktop_6597.snap 454M /var/lib/snapd/snaps/telegram-desktop_6639.snap Fedora Flatpak --------------- 443 MB Brave 278 MB Discord 540 MB OBS Studio 477 MB Element 17 MB TAP-plugins 19 MB SWH 675 MB Freedesktop Platform 538 MB Mesa 538 MB Mesa (Extra) 463 MB Mesa 463 MB Mesa (Extra) 30 MB FFmpeg extension with extra codecs 790 kB openh264 789 kB openh264 256 MB GNU Image Manipulation Program 8 MB HEIC 1 GB GNOME Application Platform version 48 275 MB Inkscape 20 MB Adwaita theme 926 MB KDE Application Platform 1 GB KDE Application Platform 25 MB QGnomePlatform 3 MB QAdwaitaDecorations 241 MB Kdenlive 282 MB Firefox 256 MB Telegram 124 MB Telegram Desktop Webview Add-on

5.0GB MacOS
5.8GB Windows
6.6GB Flatpak
7.0GB Snap, ~6.0GB without old versions + compression

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if they spin off Chrome, would they also spin off ChromeOS? Or maybe just rebrand it?

The roadmap for ChromeOS is to become Android

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