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A dvd is roughly 768mb.
That means 6-8 Netflix movies are probably 4gb.
This is really not a lot, even with a billion chrome installs.
It's 8GB
Only if it's double-layered.
Single-layered are 4.7GB.
Shit… yes, I had cdr numbers memorized.
Also you had movie sizes misremembered - 700mb was 720p divx or 480p mpeg2, Netflix is now more often than not higher resolution that that (1080p for fullHD, minimum, for most people - I have an old TV that's 1080p - though 720p is probably also available), and likely encoded at a higher bit rate, though I don't know what file formats they use. A movie being 2gb is pretty normal for 1080p on torrent sites, and 4gb is not that uncommon for higher res
Thats a lot to me and a reason to keep them on seperate media. Honestly games are worse. Im not sure I would be wild about some rando software I install throwing 6-8 movies onto my machine along with the software.
So to clarify, I feel the environmental impact of the download is not a big deal.
Wasting gigs of hdd space and locking up ram during a hardware shortage is a dick move.
Especially when gemma3n isn’t even Google’s best 4b model, I’ve never gotten that model to do a single useful thing.
yeah actually I was weary about ai energy usage early on but ultimately determined it was really not all that much when comparing apples to apples. the real problem is people just going crazy doing things over and over that they otherwise would not be doing otherwise. Like generating images. but like using it as web search its more than one search of energy but you get more than one search worth of data. Also someone who uses their free time to talk with it as a buddy (I don't get the appeal personally) instead of streaming video might very well use less energy.
Technically a DVD is 4gb; a CD is 768mb. But the size of a modern compressed movie is probably 800-1500mb.
That said, that’s a LOT of wasted space on the boot drive, especially given how much hard drives have gone up in price lately