Exclusive Weekly Patroncast - Episode 36 - No Internet!

Yeah the only thing that makes me unable to use 4G is the upload speeds :/ The internet is definitely a huge sink for energy and resources, and I personally think that trying to add it to everything is t necessarily a good thing. The increase in resolution, the increase in size for games, movies and such is also very unnecessary in a lot of cases. We definitely don’t need 4K to watch how a distro runs, or to watch a few joke videos :)

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Hi Nick, thank you for the sobering but very interesting patroncast. I know I'm probably in the minority here, but I could probably do with a 4G-hotspot connection. I think our dependency on internet is one thing, but our dependency on every faster and more stable connections is another. I hope you don't mind me placing a link to other content here, but this article is more sobering: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/can-the-internet-run-on-renewable-energy.html Sure, I understand that for content such as a nature documentary or a movie such as the Lord of the Rings where scenery is a big part of the experience, crisp images make the experience better. But for a comedy or Linux coverage, do we really need 4K or 8K? For the record, I do put my money where my mouth is. For years now, I deliberately switch streaming videos to 360p or 480p. Only when I need to read text in the video or the image is as important as the content, do I increase resolutions. I play games at lower resolutions by choice and limit frames artificially to 30 or 60 fps, depending on options. I'm not saying everybody must do the same, but I wish more people realize that pixels are not without a cost. Sorry for the rant. Snaps... you are right it is understandable from a business point of view. If it were Red Hat or Suse making such decisions I would understand, and that is that. But for a company with the name Ubuntu and who once had the slogan "Linux for Human Beings", it is sad. I always fell for Ubuntu being criticized for Unity and such. They really did help make Linux usable for human. And I think compared to all other operating systems, their support for different languages is second to none. It really used to be an operating system for all human beings.

Yeah, I need to find an approach that hasn’t already been done better by someone else, but it could be interesting :)

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I would definitely watch a general tech channel if you made one. I think a more "beginner friendly" approach would work well with it.