One of the first things I did when logging into my account on the
 Soviet was to run `quota -v` (some whitespace trimmed to be polite
 to gopher clients):
 
 Disk quotas for user luna (uid 2052):
 Filesystem KBytes quota  limit  grace files quota limit grace
 /home      8054   125000 150000       791   12500 15000
 
 This is after moving some dotfiles to this machine, mostly vim
 configuration and plugins. This is the Basic Disk Quota every
 sundog has, and it is quite small compared to the comparably
 infinite amount of storage I have locally. I was aware of this
 quota when I requested an account, so I'm not surprised by it, and
 I can't see it being a problem (though I am surprised that my
 editor files use that much space, but more on that shortly).
 
 Indeed, it is infinitely more than the storage of the first
 computer I owned (a Commodore 64, with no fixed storage) and more
 than twice the storage of my first computer with fixed storage (a
 Zenith 386SX with 40 megabytes). Using that 386, I was so conscious
 of the space used by every file I worked with. Those forty
 megabytes were all I had, and this was the family computer. I 
 shared them with the operating system, with everyone in my family.
 In a sense, these computers were the first timesharing systems I
 used--though it was more spacesharing than timesharing, of course.
 I learned to be fastidious, parsimonious even, with disk space.
 
 This perspective slowly faded from my awareness as disk sizes grew 
 beyond comprehension. Growing up in the suburbs, though, my area 
 did not receive broadband service until after I had graduated high 
 school. At that point, disks had grown to the point that I could 
 reasonably store just about anything I wanted without worrying 
 about space, but downloading things still took so long. I was 
 careful not to delete things, because I had the space but 
 redownloading was a painful experience that sometimes took weeks 
 (I remember using download managers on Windows before switching to 
 Linux and FreeBSD and discovering the genius of tools like rsync).
 
 Today, my home systems are much more powerful, with more storage 
 than I genuinely know what to do with, and a ridiculously fast 
 connection. Without even thinking about the storage requirements, 
 I copied my editor configs to the Soviet and was quite surprised 
 to see my vim plugins use 6 MB. Editor features are important, 
 certainly, on a system that focuses on text-based tools, but 
 that's still a significant percentage of my quota. Yet even so, I 
 do not think there will be a problem. Using one hundred megabytes 
 of mostly plain text will take quite a while, and I imagine I can 
 move some files off of the Soviet if I start to reach my quota. I 
 am also using nvi to write this instead of vim; perhaps I can be 
 comfortable without all of the powerful features of my vim 
 plugins. nvi is certainly sufficient for writing gopher documents.
 
 I am thinking about disk usage again for the first time in many
 years, and I find that being mindful about resources is fitting
 with the philosophy of slower-paced, small pubnixes. Every action
 is deliberate, considered, from many angles that one simply ignores
 in so much of every day life. I imagine that the original pioneers
 of Unix had similar thoughts, and indeed reading contemporary FAQs
 for Usenet groups supports this theory. Many of them recommend
 users think before posting, for the extremely limited systems of
 the time simply could not handle thoughtlessness. New systems with
 their greater capacities are certainly more accessible, but there's
 always a cost. I am eager to see how the Soviet--and my experience
 with it--reflect that balance.