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HarmoniousJ t1_jchsx90 wrote

Reply to comment by Etzix in Open-source tool from MIT’s Senseable City Lab lets people check air quality, cheaply. by chrisdh79

Not even really talking about websites, talking about data that needs to be constantly refreshed. The moisture sensor in my yard isn't running off a website but it still runs smoother on a PC vs. my phone/android interface.

You sure you know enough about what I'm talking about?

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Etzix t1_jchu66a wrote

You are viewing that data somewhere, either a website or an app on your phone or both. Ofcourse if you are doing a bunch of calculations on the client your PC will be faster. That has little to nothing to do with the tiny difference in internet speed/reliability (especially if we are talking minute based data).

If the above site is slow/crashes, its shoddy code work. They are doing way too many calculations on the frontend instead of on the server, or they are sending way too many requests (like many requests each second).

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doll-haus t1_jcmus3j wrote

You're likely talking about mobile power saving features. Either pausing the app or dialing back the WiFi.

Or your phone is just shit. There's no reason for, say, basic streaming telemetry to be worse on mobile, and for many of us it isn't. (I access netdata and graphana from mobile)

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