Jul 25, 2026, 8:26 PMGlad to be part of the outliers. This post
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_139_hdd/
by @marginalia was a good read.
My daily-driver laptop's disk is only about ⅓ full. And that's running ZFS with copies=2, so the actual data is about half that.
Checked my various VPS instances and most are <⅓ full too (I need to finish migrating family pictures to a new VPS with more disk space than the limited wee-disk it's currently on).
So while yes, Jevons Paradox is alive and well, but some of us work hard to avoid it. And the article's conclusion? Definitely, developing using ed/vi/vim on low-end hardware like RPi units with an 80×25 display means than my code tends to fly on more modern hardware.
