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[โ€“] FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not a very technical person, but is there really a difference in total power consumed for streaming data in real time vs. downloading it to watch locally later? Like in terms of data and electricity used end to end, I assume it would be the same. But again, I'm somewhat dumb

[โ€“] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It is the same, assuming it's 1 machine to 1 machine. Streaming is still downloading the thing to your machine, just to a temporary space while you also watch the bits you've already received.

But it generally isn't just 1 machine to 1 machine. Downloading from a torrent isn't 1 machine to 1 machine, either. That's actually kinda the whole point with bittorrent.