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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. (www.thatprivacyguy.com)
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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Shit… yes, I had cdr numbers memorized.

[–] ReCursing@feddit.uk 3 points 8 hours ago

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