For the sake of your data, I won’t do it, but I absolutely could embed this image into a comment, and if you don’t have much data, you could get screwed: www.eso.org/public/archives/…/eso1719a.jpg
It’s a 1.3GB image of 3 nebulae. Its resolution is 93031x35412 which makes it nearly 3.3Gpix. Yes, that’s gigapixels.
Source: www.eso.org/public/images/eso1719a/
The original is 9.2GB.
It’s Termux, a terminal emulator for Android. I typed the top part, which starts qalculate (basically Wolfram|Alpha with units) and gives it the expression 98.32 kb to KB
I was expecting it to convert 98.32 kilobits to kilobytes, but it instead interpreted the ‘b’ to mean barns. The actual unit for a bit in qalculate is ‘bit’:
That’s still data that had to be transferred, requiring a non zero amount of energy and therefore money. Someone pays for it; probably you through internet and electrical bills. Even if you have “unlimited” data, there’s always a finite limit to transfer speed. You probably pay extra due to capitalism, but it would be a problem under any economic system. Innovation might lower prices, but the cost will never be zero.
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