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Reminder if you find yourself somehow running out of space on your multi-TB laptop to check your ~/.cache size. I got 150 GB of disk back today by doing some trivial cleanup. ``` du -ch ~/.cache | tail -1 | cut -f1 ``` Caches are wonderful things and having large caches on large disks is great!

15/1/26, 11:55 pm1 repost1 like

Vidya Sagar V

@vidyasagarv.com

16 Jan

Curious what was storing the largest cache in your case? Browser? pixi/uv? Zoom?

Matthew Feickert

@matthewfeickert.com

17 Jan

I don't remember at the moment, but it was none of those. It was pip and then some other program where I thought "oh I didn't know that had a cache" but it was like 80 Gigs or something.

Matthew Feickert

@matthewfeickert.com

17 Jan

I had recently cleared my Pixi cache though, but I do that maybe every few months (can get big if you are dealing with multiple different versions of CUDA).