I'm using an M1 MacBook Air for my stuff. It's an old but still good and capable machine that has been working flawlessly for years. There's one tiny thing: I made the mistake of buying the 256 GB version.

I'm constantly running out of space because of build files, iOS and Android caches and other temporary things. This issue happens so often that DaisyDisk lives in my Dock rent-free.

Telegram is happy to tell me that I'm running out of space every time I open it:

Telegram complaining about 'running out of space'

I think it starts noticing the space issue when there's less than 4 GB available… but it's none of its business! It's none of a messenger app's business! I didn't ask it to check my disk space. I didn't ask it to interrupt what I was doing or about to do.

It's clearly not the most important app on my computer, why does it check how much space is left on my device and tell me about it all the time?

What if every other app that needs to cache media started showing pop-ups like that? It's a feature that nobody asked for and it only annoys the user when space issues happen on a constant basis.