Comment on Steam Deck gets a new low-power screen-off downloads mode
brrt@sh.itjust.works 2 days agoUnless they changed it in the last couple of months Xbox does the same thing. When I still had my XSX there were updates sitting idly in the queue all the time.
And countercounterpoint this is also an environmental issue. Unless you don’t give a fuck about that either.
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s a configuration item.
As for “environmental issue” 👌👍🤣 resorting to the edgiest of trivial cases in technology as a reason to not do something is absurd. A 25GB hit to a CDN over a month is nothing. At scale either.
Name one other place you expect that level of efficiency. You expect that level of efficiency on Linux repos? What about general purpose desktop applications? I shouldn’t get an auto update because I haven’t opened an app?
This is expected behavior in any package management application. If someone uses too much cut them off like you would any other repo.
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 2 days ago
There is no Linux distribution that downloads updates immediately either. I don’t know if you’re ignorant, or just an idiot, but auto updates in Linux distros run on cron jobs, so the load would be balanced anyway because not everyone is in the same time zone. Same for consoles like your Xbox.
Orygin@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Try having millions of concurrent users all trying to update at the same time.
A single dota 2 update could use around 2-3% of the global internet bandwidth.
ysjet@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I actually seem to remember that back in ~wrath of the lich king (world of warcraft) Blizzard WASN’T doing this.
While blizzard had enough capacity to handle 12+million people trying to download the update because they prepped for it, the internet itself did not, and I want to say Verizon basically got its backbone DDoS’d and taken down.
Needless to say, Blizzard started breaking out it’s updates, using CDNs and cache servers, etc etc because Verizon had some very choice words (possibly coming from their legal department.)