A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work request rejected”

Re:A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work r... by bArray on Monday May 25, 2020 @01:49AM (#23298289)

I don't miss the speed, but I miss what the speed enforced. Pages were lighter and less wasteful with resources. These days you have pages that will not load without JS enabled, which is sometimes 10x or 100x the actual content it's displaying. That's not to mention images - people happily throw in a 1MB image, because why not? A 10MB gif to replaces a 1MB video, because why not?

Of course there are still people in remote areas, poorer Countries, low-signal zones, etc, who actually do have to deal with this daily. I remember reading a while back how Youtube and Facebook were completely unusable for some users because of this - not because of the actual content they are delivering.

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Re:A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work r... by 6510 on Monday May 25, 2020 @07:33AM (#23300034)

My old laptop with win 7 cant run youtube 144p (anymore). It just freezes up. If I download the videos in lubuntu, vlc plays the 720p but 480p is all I need. There is clearly nothing wrong with the hardware.

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Re:A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work r... by jdsully on Monday May 25, 2020 @04:36PM (#23304696)

I think a lot of that is GPU acceleration of the video codecs.

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Re:A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work r... by gvjddbnvdrbv on Monday May 25, 2020 @02:13AM (#23298453)

mbasic.facebook.com

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