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When your Mac's trash can visibly filled up

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Early UI designers really wanted you to feel the clutter. In the original Mac OS, dragging files to the trash caused the icon to visually bloat, signifying that your digital life was getting messy. It was a subtle, fat-shaming mechanic for your discarded documents that modern operating systems have tragically abandoned for sleeker, far less judgmental graphics.

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