This is the reason why I leave the shower running in every hotel I visit. And at the buffet, I tell the waiter to fetch me a trash can so I can actually get rid of the whole thing. If I can, I usually leave both a heater and an air conditioner running in the hallway.

Edit: Wow. I had completely forgotten about this comment. I really didn't think anyone would take it seriously. I work with networks. I know we're not literally going to run out of internet. But everyone treats bandwidth as this freely available resource. Advertisers, consumers, creatives and Jürgen. Fuck you, Jürgen. We both know that downloading 6 fucking MB every time someone wants to queue up the database is fucking insane, as is your reliance on client-side bullshit.

Anyway, whenever a anything loads slowly, think about why. Bandwith is not free. It's a maintained resource.

[–] acchariya@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Well clearly you drank the Comcast kool-aid. Bandwidth is nothing like clean water supply, food, or generated electricity. It's more like traffic on a highway. Sure, there is a finite amount of room on the highway, but until you hit that at any one time, there is room on the highway for more traffic.

It could be a problem if everyone was playing flight simulator at the same time but they are not.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 1 month ago

None of these are the same comparison. There is no "wasting" Internet speed.

The comparison would be better to turning on the faucet halfway to fill your cup slower. What's the point. You're using the same amount of water. Just open it all the way and fill your cup.

The cup doesn't keep overflowing with data. You're downloading files, once those files are done downloading it's done. It's not like it "forgets" and accidentally downloads the whole internet. What a weird way of thinking the internet works