Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW

lagniappe · 2025-08-30T17:34:42 1756575282

Is Asahi still making regular meaningful progress since Marcan quit?

https://marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-l...

sbierwagen · 2025-08-30T17:22:58 1756574578

  % du -hcs "/Library/Application Support/com.apple.idleassetsd/Customer/"
  5.1M /Library/Application Support/com.apple.idleassetsd/Customer/
  5.1M total

Is this only a thing in latest Sequoia? I've been clicking "remind me later" on the upgrade prompts for a couple weeks, since it seems like there's a story like this with every big release.

notdian · 2025-08-30T17:32:40 1756575160

I must have used the shuffle screensaver. Who knew a ‘harmless’ feature could quietly eat up ~50 GB of space and bandwidth?

ksec · 2025-08-30T17:11:47 1756573907

Not on my machine with only one files about 100MB. Still Why on earth do they do that?

I keep thinking if Apple is deliberately doing it. From Safari constantly writing 100GBs per day on paging, to this. It is the small things Apple no longer cared about which is worrying in terms of company culture.

rvz · 2025-08-30T17:06:15 1756573575

First world problems.

yjftsjthsd-h · 2025-08-30T17:37:58 1756575478

Isn't it the opposite? Thinking 47G is nothing is a stereotypical first world position; caring about the waste, less so.

bigyabai · 2025-08-30T17:08:37 1756573717

You know, if you respond to every valid OS complaint like that, eventually you will be the problem. It happened with Microsoft, happened to Google, and sure as shit can happen to the "you're holding it wrong" company.