Re:Floatplane – Linus Tech Tips launches their own video hos...
by smoe on Monday December 16, 2019 @01:27PM
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And all the people who don't have $500+ phones, unlimited data plans and fast internet connections.
I used a ~$50 android and pre-paid plans for over a year while traveling Latin America. Wast swaths of the internet are basically inaccessible unless you have tremendous patience and nerves as well as leftover money to throw at the ISPs.
Think of all the CPU cycles on all hardware (clients + network devices) and energy used just to fetch web "content" these days.
Might as well return to just burning coal at home to keep warm, thinking of the net effect on the environment.
It's absolutely stupid.