I’m not sure I’m conflating anything. A bit is a bit. Some bits are faster than others but it’s all just bits in the end. Yes, compressed content can take up m

I’m not sure I’m conflating anything. A bit is a bit. Some bits are faster than others but it’s all just bits in the end. Yes, compressed content can take up more bits when uncompressed. Also, compression can’t reduce size beyond what information is actually there without losing that information somehow. Just because we are not good at working with compressed content and require a lot of RAM to deal with raw/uncompressed data doesn’t mean it’s not wasteful or even that it’s the only way to do it. I’m glad you agree we have come a long way too. Perhaps as we collectively go further, we will find ways of accomplishing even more with fewer resources. — written from a pocket sized computer with far more bits than the total number of humans that have ever existed