[accrual]

HuggingFace and access to a fiber connection changed my concept of "large downloads". I can easily grab a 20GB model within a minute or two now, same for big Steam games. Meanwhile my childhood self was hyper aware of loading images and other assets that would bog down our home dialup connection.

[maccard]

The broadband speed to my work PC is the same as my hard drive read speed from 15 years ago. My hard drive read speed is the same as a single channel RAM read from 15 years ago.

It’d absolutely unbelieveable how much faster machines are even since 2011