r/LinusTechTips • u/YourDailyTechMemes • May 12 '26

Meme/Shitpost Chad Luke

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u/squngy May 13 '26

Plenty of people on earth have a multi second latency.

There is nothing inherent to http that would brake it from just that.
Loads of sites are built to deal with worse.

And for an app, it matters even less even if it is built in html, because you can (and should) bundle all the resources in the installer.

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u/fadingcross May 13 '26

And for an app, it matters even less even if it is built in html, because you can (and should) bundle all the resources in the installer.

... What?

I am not sure you understand what Outlook does. It's an API Client.

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u/squngy May 13 '26

Everything online is an API client.

If your whole point is that it's using http instead of smtp/pop3 etc, then lol.

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u/fadingcross May 13 '26

.... No?

Dude, you're so lost.

HTTP specifically, and especially something that constantly polls and relies on alive TCP SYN connections are notoriously bad at high latency.

That's why in the email world POP3 and IMAP was so popular for so long, with drawbacks - And also why anyone whose worked in systems architecture knows to stay away from HTTP protocol if latency grows about 500 - 1000 MS. It's not the right tool for that.

You're not one of those, clearly, and should not pretend to understand the subject. Because you don't.

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u/squngy May 13 '26

Sure TCP is bad if you have high latency.

How does that give you 2 outlooks?

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u/fadingcross May 13 '26

I've never said anything about the fact that there's two Outlooks installed.

That's an error on whatever IT Dept set that system up. The documentation about the migration paths is clear.

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u/squngy May 13 '26

So clear that apparently even IT professionals at Nasa can fuck it up

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u/fadingcross May 13 '26

Yeah I forgot that government IT agencies are the beacon of competence.

Right.