alt Hacker NewsHuggingFace 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.
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