Essentially for something to be decentralised and not ephemeral, everyone needs a copy of the data.

To go into a bit more detail—one of the biggest benefits of decentralised systems is generally redundancy has to be built in otherwise you have a Single Point Of Failure™️, and then you get data loss when it’s gone. Given any sensible decentralised system is designed to avoid this scenario, that data has to be somewhere, and generally the simplest and less expensive (in terms of processing) way to improve on data in one place, is to have it in every place. Any time the data isn’t in one place or every place, you then have an exercise in figuring out where it actually is. This “finding it” processing is going to take time and effort, and if you imagine a standard semi-popular lemmy post, that’s potentially data coming from all sorts of different places, which may or may not be there—this would inevitably make request times ridiculous and basically no one would use it.

At the end of the day, any kind of processing is energy, cost & time expensive, whereas storage makes that part of the process effectively instant and is much cheaper than increasing processing power in both cost and energy.

So basically in this use case and many like it: it makes sense if you’re trying to pick what to optimise, you optimise for lower processing and higher storage requirements rather than vice versa.

The history aspect is more straightforward to understand given the above, if you expect people to care what happened a year ago and want to support that, that data needs to live somewhere

They can happen at the same time, but no, they’re entirely independent

My friend, it’s not nonsense, it’s basically how decentralised communication has to work if you want any reasonable level of recency & history in the data.

Usenet was basically the original and I believe a modern news provider requires something like 50 petabytes of storage to run a 10 year data retention service

“Tim onion” got an irl lol out of me

Right wingers always project

Sadly I don’t think Teletext has been broadcast (in the UK at least) in over a decade

Was gonna say a cushion is probably not the solution to OPs problem, they’re either not using their chair correctly or the chair is bad

That’s really shitty given the expectation set when using a VPN

I was wondering the same, I’ve not had any issues personally

It’ll be in a compilation pack, I’d bet

The big win for GeForce NOW was you could fire up games from your steam library—you didn’t need to directly invest in a service which might die for your ownership of a game

Genuinely when there was actually some competition in this space, GeForce NOW was actually the consumer friendly one

Guess we have another case study in why competition results in worse outcomes for the customer in its eventual conclusion

You’d have thought they’d have learned from losing the browser monopoly they had 15 years ago due to complacency

That’s cool for Action Retro to get featured on Tom’s Hardware

That thumbnail lol

Putting everything else aside:

Why do they think they have any right to be platformed by Google, a private American company?

Can I demand that anti Putin content be platformed on VK or they have to pay me genuinely absurd fines?

The man is demonstrably not smart enough to pull off a joke that good deliberately

The link to the forum discussion in the article probably

There’s no way that’s satirical, there’s too much of it

I think heat typically intensifies over time: anecdotally, leftover hot food is always hotter a couple of days after it was freshly made

Everything about the Gingko tree is pretty cool