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  • yeah but it doesn’t make much sense

    what’s actually taking up disk space are images and video, and those are already compressed. you cannot compress already compressed data again, it just won’t reduce the filesize. so there’s no point compressing everything, because where it matters, it doesn’t do anything, and where it doesn’t matter, it makes things slow and adds complexity, which is an additional failure point.















  • actually that reminds me — there’s a series on youtube about putting solar panels on machines and checking whether they generate enough power to power the device

    so they put solar panels on a car and check whether the car runs,

    they put solar panels on drones to check whether they fly

    would this work for a laptop? how much solar panel area do you need to run the laptop? I assume 30W power usage, that means you need 0.15 m² solar panels under full sunlight, my laptop has like 15x20 cm which is 0.03 m² … so, you could only use it 20% of the time to give it time to recharge.