do you understand what just happened to your computer..
Google Chrome secretly downloaded a 4GB AI model onto your device. Without asking.. Without telling you..
It's called weights.bin. It lives deep in your system folders. It powers Gemini Nano - Google's on-device AI.
And if you delete it? Chrome re-downloads it automatically. Like nothing happened.
Just Google deciding your hard drive is their storage unit.
At 1 billion Chrome users - that's 4 BILLION gigabytes of data pushed silently across the internet.
The carbon footprint alone equals tens of thousands of cars running for a year.
Check your disk right now:
📁 %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\OptGuideOnDeviceModel
To stop it: chrome://flags → disable Optimization Guide On Device Model → restart Chrome → delete the folder.
Reshare so people know what's sitting on their computers.
me desinstalé las rrss del móvil y ahora leo noticias en periódicos como se ha hecho toda la vida, pero ver estas cosas me dan ganas de ni leerlos a veces 🙃
This is from an era where people were amazed and full of wonder about the incredible amounts of effort, time and talent put into artistic experiences made for them to enjoy.
in a few decades we'll look back in absolute disgust at reels/tiktok/shorts. literally smoking for the mind. i can't emphasise how much your life (and society) would improve if you spent an hour a day staring at a wall instead of doomscrolling.