Pledges coming from proprietary software companies mean nothing
Get behind the community that is _really_ fighting to curb climate change:
this post was submitted on 18 May 2024
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@[email protected] @[email protected] I'm legitimately getting annoyed by the widespread obsession with AI as it's not being used for the betterment of society. The original purpose of ChromeOS was to breath life into old laptops. That pledge comes from us all; slashing greenhouse gasses is done by using open-source OS's on older computers. Not new computers, but ones we already have.
Old vs. new hardware is difficult. New hardware can also do the same with lower energy consumption.
It’s impossible to calculate, but the tipping point would be where the saved energy surpasses the energy needed for producing and transporting the hardware.
I’m quite sure that my raspi4 is more powerful, smaller, less noisy and requires less energy than my oldest computer.
The thing is just that they rarely only improve the efficiency.