Right, so this is borderline off-topic, but I've wondered something about all of this IRL streaming stuff these people are doing.
I know they do plenty of livestreaming from home and hotel rooms and such, but they also seem to do a lot of "on the ground" livestreaming from their phones, for hours at a time, and sometimes in seemingly remote locations and/or on the road.
Recording video on a cell phone takes lots of juice (the camera sensor itself, its hardware-based image processing before it gets to the OS, the recording app encoding the raw video, usually also using hardware-based encoding, then writing it to flash storage) and generates a bunch of heat. Constantly streaming data also uses lots of juice, especially transmitting, and generates additional heat.
So they're doing this streaming stuff using phones that must be gobbling through their batteries like a crack whore gobbles through cocks and using tons of cellular network bandwidth.
How do they do this for hours at a time? Like, technologically? Do they just have monster batteries for their phones (where can I find one if so)? Are cellular networks really that reliable now? Are cell plans actually providing genuinely "unlimited" bandwidth now without costing an arm and a leg?
Oh god, I've just had a boomer moment. Well, I'm still clicking "Post Reply" because I'm genuinely curious.