I had the same problem and had some luck cleaning things up by enabling "calculate all sizes" in Finder, which will show you the total directory size, and makes it a bit easier to look for where the big stuff is hiding. You'll also want to make sure to look through hidden directories like ~/Library; I found a bunch of Docker-related stuff in there which turned out to be where a lot of my disk space went.

You can enable "calculate all sizes" in Finder with Cmd+J. I think it only works in list view however.

I’d recommend GrandPerspective:[1] it’s really good at displaying this sort of thing, has been around for over two decades, and the developer has managed to keep it to <5MB which is perfect when you’re running very low on space.

[1] https://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/

I use GP, would recommend as well; it generates great color codes tree maps of your storage. Once you get used to navigating it that way, you won’t go back.

Something like https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu with ("brew install ncdu") is great if you are okay with the command line. It's very annoying to drill down in the Finder especially if it's hidden directories.

in a similar vein if you are looking for a nice GUI, daisydisk is great: https://daisydiskapp.com one time $10 payment

Also DaisyDisk! Beautiful app. Perfect for discovering this kind of thing.

A ton of thanks. This "hack" allowed to finally see some stuff that was eating up a lot of my space and was showing up as "System Data". It turned out the Podman virtual machine on my MacBook had eaten up more 100GB!

You can also just use du -hs, eg. to show the size of all subdirectories under ~/Library/Caches/ do:

  du -hs ~/Library/Caches/*

Mr. President, we must not allow a salad gap!

“Zevulon the Great; he's Teriyaki Style”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM5iF3CXcV0

I really miss those little Ford Rangers. Perfect size for hauling stuff around town if you need to, but still small enough to be a grocery getter too.

The newer models seem to be trying to appeal to the “big truck” people, but in a way that those same people won’t want

I really want true compact pickups to make a comeback. Back in high school my girlfriend had a 79 Ford ranger. Put a modern AWD and airbags on that thing and it's my dream car. Great mileage, some towing capacity, and an actually useful bed, without becoming a massive unwieldy thing.

Something that I can use 95% of the time to get groceries and not feel like it's overkill, but toss a couch, dirt bike or beehive in the back when the situation calls for it.

Don’t ignore the maverick. It completely fills that niche with the added bonus of not being a death trap.

They make a smaller model called the Ford Maverick

Those things are bigger than an old F-250, and they only have a 4.5' bed.

They're also not really pickup trucks, underneath they have the same SUV unibody as the Bronco (yikes) and the Escape.

Thanks, I can’t really get good information online

>They make a smaller model called the Ford Maverick

Unibody vs body-on-frame. Many consider that "not a real truck".

I agree that it might be due to where we grow up ... I grew up in a forest on an island with few people living within walking distance. But I've been living in a small city for about 14 years, and more and more I long to go back to living somewhere were there aren't all these people around. Or more importantly, to somewhere so much more _quiet_.

> instead of calling it done and schlepping some guys tractor drag race motor around town delivering pizzas

This sounds way too specific to be a hypothetical

You’ve never encountered COBOL because it sounds like you’ve never worked on the part which is usually referred to as the “core banking system”.

Many legacy banking cores are still in use and the legacy ones are all written in COBOL.

You will be happy to know that in India at least, the big CBS (finacle) is in poorly written Java instead.

Made on least cost basis, protected by a moat a central bank wide, and maintained by 10k /year engineers, it is truly a marvel that our country's banks even run.

The company i intern at has built its entire business off moving as much functionality outside finacle. A small modification of changing a label's font, can cost a full 100-150 usd.

Never mind adding in custom features and the like, which costs a pretty penny if you use infy.

The world does not improve uniformly or get worse uniformly.

What’s good for most is bad for some and vice versa.

That's certainly true, and as a result there are always things getting worse somewhere, and that's always more newsworthy than things getting better anywhere.

This is the correct answer

I'd say, no accelerator on earth is giving anyone almost $40k worth of value