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About the quality of the images, it's on purpose: > By dithering, we can make images ten times less resource-intensive, even though they are displayed much lar
by LooerCell 1y ago
About the quality of the images, it's on purpose:
> By dithering, we can make images ten times less resource-intensive, even though they are displayed much larger than on the old website.
This is needed because the website is solar-powered and self-hosted on low-tech hardware, read more here:
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/the-solar-website/ https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/the-solar-website/
- gblargg 1y agoI just took the original first image from the article and compressed it to a 37k JPEG, the same size as the dithered image, and it looks a lot better. They must be considering resources to display the image, not just file size and network bandwidth.