My best guess is they somehow mixed up minutes and seconds? Usually people mix up bits and bytes the other way and overestimate speeds.

I copy photos and videos off my phone all the time; it’s far more convenient than trying to send it over the internet. But even the “slow” speed of 480Mbps that they’re complaining about seems more than adequate; copying a few gigs of photos will only take a minute or two, and even copying my phone’s entire 128GB of storage would only take 35 minutes. Compared to most USB storage devices that’s blazingly fast.

Only Pro models support reasonable speeds for USB-C, up to 10Gbps. Regular iPhones are capped at USB 2.0 rates, up to 480Mbps, which is no faster than Lightning. With an iPhone 16 Pro, a 1GB file transfer can take 8 seconds – with a vanilla iPhone 16, you’re going to be waiting over 16 minutes.

…What? At 10Gbps a 1GB transfer takes under a second, while at 480Mbps it would take about 17 sec. Was this article written by AI or did the author just not care to actually do the math?

I had that too, closed the popup and never ran into anything even mildly broken during the entire course. Aside from the popup they don’t seem to be actively sabotaging Linux users, and it’s a website, so it’s gonna work pretty much identically on any OS as long as you’re using a common browser.

That said, they should definitely phrase the message more like “Your OS isn’t supported, so don’t expect help from us if something Linux-specific breaks our page” than “You need to get a different OS.”

I think I lost a few brain cells reading it all the way through.

It’s certainly better than using a random online service, but I still find the idea of being emotionally dependent on a computer algorithm deeply unsettling. I hope someday you can find a real girlfriend to talk to. :)

import { fourier, relativity } from "../utils";

Might want to be careful importing Fourier; he might be classified as an illegal immigrant.

“Hmm”

Guys fusion power is just 5 years away guys we’re almost at breakeven bro just give us another billion venture capital dollars we just need some stronger magnets cmon we’re so close dude just a little bit more

Probably just what their hiring algorithm spat out, or a market average, or something.

Depending on your location relative to your water utility, it might take several seconds for the pressure wave from turning on your faucet to propagate backwards to them at its measly 1.5km/s. With our new ultra-low-latency smart faucet technology, that delay is reduced to tens of milliseconds! It could be faster, but we have to route all traffic through our cloud servers for analytics purposes.

Yes. Yes, they are.

I imagine they’re just using some generic web scraper for everything, and not taking any time at all to see if the sites they’re scraping have an easier way to access the data.

I mean, they’re not wrong, but it does hurt a bit.

Careful! That almost sounds like promoting violence, and that won’t fly with our advertisers! You have to say, uh, Spez deserves to be unalived.

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Huh that’s really interesting, you’re right, and I learned a lot of new stuff about networking that I didn’t know before.

If you’re not on the same local network as the server and it’s not configured to be accessible from the general internet, you need some sort of proxy to access it.

Yeah this seems fine; if they’re proxying the stream through their server it’s using their bandwidth which costs them money. It doesn’t make sense for them to not charge for it.

Relevant xkcd.

I can back that up; the drives I ordered were packaged in an antistatic bag, surrounded by an air filled cushion thing, in a hard cardboard box. (Assuming what I got was the “air pockets” it’s a plastic sleeve made of many pressurized sections that completely encloses the drive; definitely adequate IMO. I can dig up a pic if you want).