You Don't Know Jack about Bandwidth

Re:You Don't Know Jack about Bandwidth by dietr1ch on Thursday October 10, 2024 @08:45AM (#41798253)

I think that latency people grow up with has a huge impact on how careful they are when using the internet.

Having gotten my hands on an experimental 128kbps link early on, but later and moving to the countryside with a 56kb-1Mbps really spotty connection made me really appreciate local state as every time things blocked on the internet made it pretty notorious.

I'm glad there's a push for synchronized, local-first state now, as roaming around on mobile or with a laptop hopping on wifi can only perform nicely with local state.

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Re:You Don't Know Jack about Bandwidth by EvanAnderson on Thursday October 10, 2024 @04:55PM (#41803503)

> I think that latency people grow up with has a huge impact on how careful they are when using the internet.

This reminds me a ton about the studies showing harm to children's future mental health as a result of growing up poor. I definitely "hoard" data locally because I grew up with accessing BBSs at 1200 baud, moving up thru dial-uo Internet, and eventually shitty DSL. Services and products that rely on constant access to the Internet strike me as dodgy and likely to fail as a result of my "upbringing".

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