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"An 8K video is 10 times heavier and more polluting than an HD video. On your smartphone, you literally can't even see the difference. It's pointless waste."

From '99th Day: A Warning About Technology' by Gerry McGovern

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turning the โ€˜up slopeโ€™ of video into a cliff for us to fall off mastodon.social/@urlyman/11276โ€ฆ


According to httparchive.org/reports/page-wโ€ฆ, the median weight in KB for web page tech on desktop:

Over the last 14.5 years:

HTML
2010: 20KB;
mid 2024: 33KB;
Increase of 65%.

Images
2010: 229KB;
mid 2024: 1,062KB;
Increase of 464%.

JavaScript
2010: 89KB;
mid 2024: 640KB;
Increase of 719%.

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Over the last 9 years:

Video
mid 2015: 173KB;
mid 2024: 3,872KB;
Increase of 2,238%.

I reckon that in the era of AI the JS gradient is gonna steepen significantly

#climateDiary


in reply to Ciara

Even 4K needs you to be about 1.5m from a 72" screen to see much difference from upscaled HD.

HD (1080p) with higher frame rate (say 96 fps) is more use than QHD or 4K, unless it's a screen the size of a wall.

Even 1080p is a bit pointless on a smartphone.

My phone was Android 8 and the local AnPost Banking killed the Web interface. The App needed Android 10 minimum. They claimed the App was more secure.
An Android App isn't more secure. See fines against Google & Malware on phone.

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