that is certainly an interesting economical optimization problem to reason about, though imho somewhat beyond technical merit, as simply letting the client choose quality and sending the data full speed works well enough.

addition:

i totally agree that things have to look economical in order to work and that there are technical edge-cases that need to be handled for good ux, but i dont't quite see how client-side buffer occupancy in the seconds range is in the users interest.

that's a definition of oversubscription.

> around 70-95% utilization depending on link size.

2/3's with dumb queues, <100% with the computational tradeoff of sqm

was slightly at a loss in what exactly needed to be shown here until i clicked the link and came to the conclusion that you re-invented(?) pacing.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/tc-fq.8.html

information coming over unqualified electronic channels is not trustworthy anymore

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i don't "make them" but i don't feel accepted or heard until they do and this will limit my interactions with them (for better or worse).

> You’re being an asshole and you need to stop this behavior. Wait until it’s clear someone can’t hear you before making this gesture.

seems like you got some things backwards and this is one of them.

totally understandable as the "right to be left alone" or privacy is essential but undeniably curtailed when in public.

i hope you can appreciate the collective imperative here and acknowledge that it would be super fucked up if everyone would be wearing headphones in public.

it's just fucking with social interaction; maybe that's the point

wearing headphones gives way to the assumption that the person is listening to something other than their surroundings; their talking is probably directed at someone on the phone.

hearing aids can be used as headphones as well, but generally aren't.