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Now that web pages weigh in at tens of megabytes and make scores of external calls, those with bandwidth caps are in for a raw deal unless the trend turns. A pseudo-anonymous blogger makes the appeal to please keep your blog light, as in kilobytes per page rather than megabytes.
The light went on for him when moving to a mobile service plan with a 25MB per month limit. It turns out that 25MB is barely enough to load seven blog posts from the site Medium. There the pages can be 3.26MB each and 25 divded by 3.26 is only about 7.6. Pages of that size would have taken close to 10 minutes to load over an old dialup connection. Most other sites are just as bad or worse. He walks through some easy steps to guarantee a lean web site with low bandwidth requirements and fast load times.
(Score: 2) by arcz on Friday January 26 2018, @06:01AM (9 children)
What kind of video game uses that much bandwidth??
(Score: 4, Informative) by Pino P on Friday January 26 2018, @06:30AM (2 children)
Purchasing a AAA-class game on PlayStation Store or Steam often entails downloading a BD-ROM's worth of data. This can be in the tens of gigabytes. Add multiple gamers in the household, and you end up with a start even before you add hours of high-definition Twitch streaming.
(Score: 1) by Apparition on Friday January 26 2018, @12:29PM (1 child)
Not to mention multi-gigabyte video game patches.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @04:21PM
Which are conveniently distributed via bittorrent so the dev (for example blizzard) doesn't need to pay the bandwidth bills. You do.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday January 26 2018, @10:30AM (5 children)
The freemium ones and even most of the for-pay ones. They'll telemetrize your behaviour to the kingdom come and then one more station past it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday January 26 2018, @03:34PM (4 children)
This is why it's best to just ignore modern games, and stick with the old classics. They don't require an internet connection, they don't spy on you, and they're more fun too.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Friday January 26 2018, @05:27PM (2 children)
These are the two games I keep coming back to, year after year after year:
http://www.oolite.org/ [oolite.org]
https://www.wesnoth.org/ [wesnoth.org]
No snooping, no massive bandwidth/ data requirements, plenty of customisation options and user-generated content. Oh, and free.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @09:39PM
Oolite is awesome, one of my all time favorites. I kinda burned myself out on wesnoth though. ADOM, MAngband, and dwarf fortress on the roguelike end, have all devoured many days of my life.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Sunday January 28 2018, @11:10PM
Thanks for the recommendation. I just whiled away the last couple of hours in Oolite on Linux. It's come a long way since I tried it out years ago! Great to see they're still improving it and I suppose Mr Braben must be a bit more tolerant (or ambivalent) towards people writing such things these days.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday January 26 2018, @11:56PM
hey - who's that there.
He's got a gun!
O for the love of God don't take the life of my mama's little boy!
BANG!
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]