inb4 “it’s actually 14 kb 🤓” it’s the joy that is 1kb in size, here’s an image that’s 1kb:

  • Valmond@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Back in the day it mattered (metadata) a lot, but mostly because you used lots of images (because of memory defragmentation, so we used only 1 big image, the splash screen shown only at startup, then it was smaller images), and each had those maybe 30 or 150 bytes (IIRC) so it added up.