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minus-square@pingvenolink4•1 year agoI wonder if this will especially benefit poor and rural areas, especially in the Global South, that may not have great coverage.
minus-squarepoVoqlinkfedilink8•edit-21 year agoYou need more compute power at the client then, which means cheap devices will not be able to do it for a while at least. It’s neat tech for sure, but for now it mainly benefits bandwidth heavy centralized services that can save costs that way.
I wonder if this will especially benefit poor and rural areas, especially in the Global South, that may not have great coverage.
You need more compute power at the client then, which means cheap devices will not be able to do it for a while at least. It’s neat tech for sure, but for now it mainly benefits bandwidth heavy centralized services that can save costs that way.