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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

I don't think there is any wasted data here just a cute face I needed to see today !

[–] hunter2 24 points 1 year ago

That's 0 kB wasted.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For the sake of your data, I won't do it, but I absolutely could embed this image into a comment, and if you don't have much data, you could get screwed: https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/large/eso1719a.jpg

It's a 1.3GB image of 3 nebulae. Its resolution is 93031x35412 which makes it nearly 3.3Gpix. Yes, that's gigapixels.
Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1719a/
The original is 9.2GB.

There's also this 8.8Gpix 24.6GB Milky Way mosaic, but that's not available as JPEG in full-res: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1242a/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That reminds me, I need to check if there's new photos from James Webb

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

it clearly says 98.32 KB :3

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually, it says 98.32kb. That's a big difference.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=barn+area+(unit)

(Just a joke, don't take that too seriously)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What program is this? And why does it not show kilobytes for either side?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's Termux, a terminal emulator for Android. I typed the top part, which starts qalculate (basically Wolfram|Alpha with units) and gives it the expression 98.32 kb to KB

I was expecting it to convert 98.32 kilobits to kilobytes, but it instead interpreted the 'b' to mean barns. The actual unit for a bit in qalculate is 'bit':

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Buy they’re both a kilogram

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No it's not

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's still data that had to be transferred, requiring a non zero amount of energy and therefore money. Someone pays for it; probably you through internet and electrical bills. Even if you have "unlimited" data, there's always a finite limit to transfer speed. You probably pay extra due to capitalism, but it would be a problem under any economic system. Innovation might lower prices, but the cost will never be zero.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah I'm using government school wifi, so it's taxes that we'd have to pay anyway

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

but now taxes go up sooner because of you

fuck you

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But taxes spend on school infrastructure is nice and certainly better than spending it on murdering brown people in the middle east.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

except they'll still keep spending it on that and just raise the taxes