No one can see the difference between upscale 720p, 1080p, 4K or 8K. If you can, you’re lying. And if you’re not lying, the difference is so minimal that it really doesn’t matter. 4K and 8K are completely foolish because no one’s vision is getting better with time and it puts an insane strain on infrastructure. Stupid.
You buy wireless earbuds for $160-$200 that you will lose within a year. You can buy professional wired headphones for less than a $100 and use those for decades. You want to save the planet? Get on the winning team, hoe.
You can fill a 1TB hard drive with music and you still wouldn’t have listened to that album in twenty years. 1TB holds about one thousand albums at very high audio quality (uncompressed). You’ll probably never will go through a thousand albums in your life. And 1TB is dirt cheap. Less than 10TB will be enough for your entire life, for everything.
No one looks at your 4000*3000+ pixels pictures. We look at 800*600 pixels viewports, probably worse on IG and mobile apps. Phone pictures these days are so processed they don’t even look real at all. It’s a regression.
Etc.
It fascinates me that we have arrived at such a plateau with technology. We can’t possibly do much better. We’ve maxed out our physical sensors. We already have all the convenience in the world. Isn’t it awesome?
Our mission now is to chill. And use that tech to do better, of course.