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2 HN users recommended this between 2018 and 2021, in 2 comments.
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2 HN users recommended this between 2018 and 2021, in 2 comments.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
Package managers come with their own limitations. You can't have multiple versions of the same application, packages are often out of date, packages sometimes conflict, you can't choose where applications are installed, etc.
And storage is ridiculously cheap. You can get an 8TB HDD for $150[0]. Or a 1TB SSD for the same price[1].
[0]https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-ST...
[1]https://www.amazon.com/Blue-NAND-1TB-SSD-WDS100T2B0A/dp/B073...
> I doubt anyone is able to sync a full node from genesis block anymore.
Because 1 terabyte of storage space is so out of reach, today? [1]
Ethereum Chain Full Sync Data Size: 954.28 GB as of 09/06/2021 [2]
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Blue-NAND-1TB-SSD-WDS100T2B0A/dp/B073... [2] https://ycharts.com/indicators/ethereum_chain_full_sync_data...