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I went with this storage setup on the M4 Mini. 4" TB cable to TB enclosure with a 1TB drive and some double sided tape. Got the internal storage usage down to about 140GB by disabling Messages in iCloud, TimeMachine, clearing up a bunch of unused simulators and moving Music/Photos to the external drive. Pretty good other than increasing power usage by a couple watts.

Learned about this option today, helpful on the 256GB machines.

Another bit of space saving.

GarageBand: gets installed automatically, easy enough to nuke from /Applications but that still leaves 2GB of left over junk in /Library/Application Support in the GarageBand and Logic folders.

I think its /System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_UAF_FM_GenerativeModels. My M1 MBP doesn't have anything in this directory, but all my other machines do…

@paul Switch Language to English (UK) 😂

@w @paul I wish it were that easy, but once “AI” is downloaded, it is kept in system library forever and you need to disable SIP to delete it (haven't tried yet).

@paul move to the EU!

*will only work until next spring.

@paul so will you delete and report what happened?🙂

@paul if you find out please share, I ultimately want to use that extra ram apple thinks apple intelligence needs for actually useful things. My iphone 16 (non pro) holds apps resident in ram so much longer than I am used to from my iphone XS max and i am NOT giving that away

@paul Why are you concerned? This is not Sam Altman.....