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Here's a computer problem, 9/10 developers can't solve it. you have two computers, One you are able to upgrade any of the parts or even use an entire server room full of computers as good as money can buy The other is a computer-like device picked randomly from anywhere on the planet statistically it's going to be a low end android phone You have to display an image on the 2nd device where do you choose to do the bulk of the work required to render the page? 18 comments
 @ada Another one in the same vain: You have a small handheld device you take photos with while out and about. You meet up with a group of friends, suddenly a second device with a giant monitor appears. So cool, you just wanted to show your friends some photos! Wouldn't it be mindblowing if you could show them a couple of the photos you took with the small device on the big screen? It's 2022 and it's still a complete pain to do this (and I do know why but it still frustrated me). @jfml one that's annoying I meet my friend at a coffee shop she wants to send me a 1GB file, we have a USB-C cable that can connect the two laptops together. So she uploads the 1GB file to a website and sends me a URL @ada Oh, just imagine if that would work! Amazing! I still remember this app that wanted to do file transfer via sound, super cool idea but I don't know if they ever got it to work. And I can't find it now … Oh right, in the end they obviously only used sound to magically connect to a server that then did the file transfers +___+ @jfml a neater solution would be to use the sound to do offline signaling and then connect p2p with WebRTC   So you want to share files between two devices? Where's the money in that? I just can't imagine, how that would work economically. /frustrated @ada On the end users device, traffic and energy sadly aren't free. And letting that 2 W/h device run for two to four seconds is more efficient then taking a two seconds round trip to let some 250 W/h machine do the job. What if you don’t have just one user, but 1000, or 10000? Sounds to me less efficient doing it on users devices then.   Clearly on the 2nd device as I then don't need to spend any money on the first device 😁 And it's not my problem when that device is slow as my response-times are awesome fast! I don't understand the Problem. I think it is ill specified. Even a low-end Android device should be able to display an image via e.g. Webview or Google Photos. You have to render the image on the phone anyway to display it there. So what do you need the first Sooper-Dooper Computer for? |
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@ada how much adtech is required by "someone" to display the page? :thonking: