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minus-squarekameecoding@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 days agoOnce again, you are probably at least somewhat technical and understand wattage, do you think joe schmoe does? Or do they just charge their phone more often?
minus-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-214 days agoEven non-technical people know 80W is more than 10W. They know that Watts usually refers to power usage. People have been buying lightbulbs of varying wattages, and understanding it just fine, for many decades now. You have it the opposite way around. The average person has a much better grasp of Watts than they do of data speeds in Gigabits per second.
Once again, you are probably at least somewhat technical and understand wattage, do you think joe schmoe does? Or do they just charge their phone more often?
Even non-technical people know 80W is more than 10W. They know that Watts usually refers to power usage.
People have been buying lightbulbs of varying wattages, and understanding it just fine, for many decades now.
You have it the opposite way around. The average person has a much better grasp of Watts than they do of data speeds in Gigabits per second.