Reminder to clear your ~/.cache folder every now and then

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::: spoiler Alt Text A screenshot of a file manager preview window for my ~/.cache folder, which takes up 164.3 GiB and has 246,049 files and 15,126 folders. The folder was first created about 1.75 years ago with my system :::

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Even better: mount ~/.cache as ramfs. It will also speed up some apps significantly.

I always felt that there should be some user directory like /tmp/ which will be wiped regularly.