@agaric On the slightly different issue of media storage - camera megapixels for photos and 1080p video for what is static or not needed for detail - this would save one of the earths that is needed to spin this one so fast (up and down streams)
I think people are consuming and being taught to demand on servers like burger bars - it needs policing (training) because 1.5gb-6gb for for talking or even normal video is just sickeningly big... for streaming and for backups during that time for everything unless that 1 talk or film REALLY is worthy... and that could be kept separately

I'm collecting people who arguably misuse storage lol !

#PeerTube is also guilty for defaulting on highest stream quality for people on tiny screens... so tech and people are full of it - technically good people I've encouraged talk about it and they only mentioned how much I write more than how MA$$IVE their American storage back-ends are.

So ALL things on ALL levels are political and need re-evaluating ( on other behalf as we all normalise and get too deep / can't change ourselves so easily )

Doing so much floppy disk then CD, now Gigabytes for what arguable could be <150mb of audio for a lot of this stuff and some screenshot pics!

It's so easy to spend diskspace without that old previous mentality.... that it's PRECIOUS!
I know the topic was a bit different- so sorry. But another variant of saving world as video (if comparing is perhaps more intensive or sizewise brute force than anything I can think of)... but only if we're comparing / prioritising because it's all really worth doing I guess unless you're 'creating' bloat!!,

" just half the res and save world ! "
Good tag line no?

And then do more other stuff with that space or even SAVE IT!!

The new all-you-can-eat download space is damaging people and fattening them in similar ways...