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[–] Senseless@feddit.de 90 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

When Baldur's Gate 3 came out our group of friends wanted to start a game together. Since one of our friends, living about a kilometer away, has shitty internet it was faster for me to download the game myself, copy it to a USB stick, have it driven over by another friend, copy it onto the friends PC and verify file integrity than downloading it.

German internet in a nutshell.

So yeah, IPoAC would've it's purpose.

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 75 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For render the first picture of a black hole a couple of uear ago, the data transfer was done through hdds transported by a plane, than a data transfer through Internet, because the former was so much faster.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/289423-it-took-half-a-ton-of-hard-drives-to-store-eht-black-hole-image-data

[–] iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Pipoca@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a real quote, from the 80s, published in a networking textbook.

It's amusing, but it's always been a serious and occasionally practical observation.

[–] uis@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

German internet in a nutshell.

At least you got better healthcare.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Senseless@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it a German reaction to think: Hey, 50MBit is not that bad?

[–] Zunon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I still remember when 150KiB/s was what we had as a child. It was very usable for the small amounts of data we needed back then.

[–] Zunon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Seeing it written as MBit/s feels so wrong to me, I read it as MB/s at first then I realized it's Mb/s.

[–] Pipoca@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IPoAC is a joke about printing actual IP packets, sending them by pigeon, then scanning them.

You do the whole usual TCP ACK/SYN thing, but with pigeons.

It's not the same as 'sneakernet, but strapping microsd cards to a pigeon'. It's way, way sillier.

[–] Senseless@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know, explaining jokes doesn't make them funnier.

[–] Saigonauticon@voltage.vn 2 points 11 months ago

It makes them funnier the next time I hear them, in a new context though :)

[–] stingpie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm assuming English isn't your first language, but "IPoAC would've it's purpose" is grammatically awkward. "Would've" doesn't really work for possession. Instead you can use "would have," but people would typically say "IPoAC has it's purpose"

[–] Senseless@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the clarification. You're right, English isn't my first language.

I'm a bit confused by your sentence:

""Would've" me doesn't really work fur possession. Instead you can use "would have""

That's the same thing, isn't it? My idea with using "would've" was that IPoAC would have it's purpose, if it was a thing. I'm missing the descriptive word in either language right now.

[–] stingpie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The word "have" is used in two different ways. One way is to own or hold something, so if I'm holding a pencil, I have it. But another way is as a way so signal different tenses (as in grammatical tense) so you can say "I shouldn't have done it" or "they have tried it before." The contraction "'ve" is only used for tense, but not to own something. So, the phrase "they've it" is grammatically incorrect.