Actually, no. That’s a very simple basic functionality. A router needs to identify the streams (identified by the 5-tuple of source and destination IP and port and the protocol) to work at all. It also needs to prioritise traffic to work at all.

Combining both features is trivial even on 128mb RAM, and it’s implemented in most routers.

I wish all these European Linux projects would pool resources and create one good solution instead of each little country or even city DIYing their own solution.

Yeah, that’s what I really don’t get.

Why would any serious company think it’s a great idea to outsource all your intelligence work to a handfull of US companies, making yourself wholely dependant on their goodwill and the goodwill of the US government?

I would so love if this causes an usage spike for Firefox, so that all websites and webapps start testing for Firefox compatibility again…

That’s where traffic priorisation comes in. If your router is setup in a somewhat reasonable way it gives priority to smaller data streams to avoid just that.

Locomotives are for normies. A true autist knows the cars as well, and who made the handrails.

OTOH, is using electronically created music not art too? If you write your music and put it into FL Studio or something similar to “play” the music for you, is it not art?

I think the electric piano is a false equivalent here. Electronically created music is not the same as AI.

You need enough people to be able to overcome the military and law enforcement. So that differs depending on the country.

The USA has 2.81 million service members, so nearly 1% of the population. I’d say that one soldier with training and incredible amounts of war machinery could easily take out 10 untrained average americans even if they have guns, so 10% is likely not enough. Might be enough in a country with no money and hardly any military, but just think about it. How many angry people does it take to take out a tank or a fighter jet?

Yeah, the article was a good read, nothing wrong with that. But I think it’s important to make it clear what the intent is.

What is not true?

Do the math yourself, it’s only grade school level:

A download takes 100 minutes at 10Mbit. How long does it take at 20Mbit and how many minutes are saved?

The same download takes 2 minutes at 500Mbit. How long does it take at 1000Mbit and how many minutes are saved?

This calculation doesn’t even take into consideration that most servers don’t allow for gigabit downloads and that most wifi connections also don’t allow for gigabit.

With humans spreading animals and plants (sometimes very intentionally) there is design and intent, and most often it’s dumb design and intent that didn’t work out.

See e.g. rabbits in Australia.

Will global biodiversity decline significantly to a few “core” species that are flexible in multiple climate zones or environment?

xkcd.com/1338/

It already has.

A relevant part is that double the speed doesn’t save the same time.

So e.g. if a download takes 100 minutes on 10MBit, you save 50 minutes by doubling the speed.

The same download would take 10 minutes on 100MBit, doubling the bandwidth would only save 5 minutes.

And on 500MBit it’s two minutes, so doubling the bandwidth only saves one minute.

We are deep into diminishing returns here.

€58 vs €49 means an extra €108 per year. That’s quite a sum.

In my case going from the 150Mbit/s I have to gigabit would cost me €35 extra per month, €420 a year, yeah, that’s not worth it to speed up some background downloads.

I’m on Fedora, updates are frequent as well, but since they download in the background I hardly care about the speed. I see there’s a new update, so I start the download in the beginning of the day. It finishes within half an hour or an hour or so, while I continue doing my stuff, and in the evening when I’m done I run the actual update if it requires a reboot.

Not yet. A revolution takes place once it’s safer for the average person to join the revolution than to keep the status quo.

That’s how far the status quo needs to drop before a revolution happens.

Yeah, he was born here, so it’s not something new to him.

I guess the rather consistent 6 minutes don’t come from it actually taking so long but rather from some kind of caching that only makes these repos show up after 5 minutes plus 1 minute for fetching and using the api key.

But how often do you do that? And do you need all 10 games instantly available on your PC?

I recently setup a new laptop on Fedora on a 150MBit connection. That was around 10min for downloading Fedora, 20min for installing it, another 20min or so for setting up Steam and Heroic launcher (for GOG, Epic and Amazon Games). I started the first game download on Steam while I was setting up Heroic and it was done downloading before I was done with Heroic.

Since I can only play one game at the time, I could already start playing and let the rest of my library download in the background.

A faster internet connection would have just shaved off a few minutes from the initial 10min downloading time for Fedora, but I don’t know how fast the server even lets me download the image.

I mean, if you pay €20 for gigabit, sure, why not. The only network provider who serves gigabit at my home wants €65 per month for it compared to the €30 I pay right now. That’s €420 per year extra, and there’s really no point in paying that to save a few minutes every few months or so.

Tbh, I don’t think the post is bad at all. If you have special high-bandwidth use cases that require massive speed you know that already and then the article isn’t for you.

If you say you “didn’t have fiber” I’m guessing you were on 50MBit VDSL? Then, of course, switching to gigabit makes sense.

In the blog post the author explicitly doesn’t say “Go get VDSL”, but they compare Gigabit with 500MBit. That’s not nearly that much of a difference, you’ll still be able to play a new game minutes after you bought it, but just twice as many minutes. If that at all, because if you have wifi in your home, it will likely limit your bandwidth to less than 500MBit in real use anyway.

The main point of the post is to show whether a regular user really benefits from Gigabit, and no, they don’t. Their netflix stream will not improve when going from a few hundred MBit to a Gigabit. Neither will most of their experience.

If you are lucky enough to live in a place where Gigabit costs nothing, sure, might as well. The only provider who serves Gigabit to my home wants €65 per month for that, €780 per year. That’s a lot of money for something that maybe saves me a few minutes once or twice a month.

Info for anyone reading, while the read was quite interesting, the whole article turned out to be an ad.

Well, the main point is that for some demographics a situation like this is a simple mistake with no consequences while for others it’s a direct way to talk to the police.