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#2“Your iPhone doesn't send any of the location information that it uses for this feature to Apple.”
I’m actually curious how this is possible. Does it download a carbon efficiency database for the detected region? Otherwise, how do you know the schedule for the best times? Is the database shipped with iOS? How granular is it?
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#3“Your iPhone doesn't send any of the location information that it uses for this feature to Apple.” I’m actually curious how this is possible. Does it download a carbon efficiency database for the detected region? Otherwise, how do you know the schedule for the best times? Is the database shipped with iOS? How granular is it?
I guess 'clean energy' tastes different to the phone or something.
{ sarcasm }
This idea of different types of energy on the consumer end is pretty baseless. It's a complex energy-space and unless you have your own hydro power or such, maybe claims like this are theatre.
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#4This is a pointless stunt. A refrigerator will use 10 to 20 times the electricity of phone that is going at 100% 24 hours a day. The impact of this is ultimately nothing.
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#5“Your iPhone doesn't send any of the location information that it uses for this feature to Apple.” I’m actually curious how this is possible. Does it download a carbon efficiency database for the detected region? Otherwise, how do you know the schedule for the best times? Is the database shipped with iOS? How granular is it?
I doubt this is how it works, but you could do a k-anonymity thing and search for a location by submitting the first few characters of the hash of the location, and getting back a response with the data for all locations with a hash that starts with those characters. Client picks out the correct location from the response, and the server is never aware of which one the client wanted.
Same as searching for passwords by partial hash with the pwned passwords api.
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#6Toggle on virtue signaling.
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#7“Your iPhone doesn't send any of the location information that it uses for this feature to Apple.” I’m actually curious how this is possible. Does it download a carbon efficiency database for the detected region? Otherwise, how do you know the schedule for the best times? Is the database shipped with iOS? How granular is it?
I think it connects directly to Wattime's service: https://www.watttime.org/explorer/#2.06/40.7/-107.55
Re: Use clean energy charging on your iPhone
#8This is a pointless stunt. A refrigerator will use 10 to 20 times the electricity of phone that is going at 100% 24 hours a day. The impact of this is ultimately nothing.
Depends. Maybe they start with phones, go to ipads, macs. As usage of this feature increases and development increases the move this feature to more device types.
Re: Use clean energy charging on your iPhone
#9This is a pointless stunt. A refrigerator will use 10 to 20 times the electricity of phone that is going at 100% 24 hours a day. The impact of this is ultimately nothing.
I should bring up that top opening chest fridges are actually pretty great for energy efficiency!
The amount of electricity needed is so small that it might even be comparable (mobile so i haven't calculated yet)
Re: Use clean energy charging on your iPhone
#10“Your iPhone doesn't send any of the location information that it uses for this feature to Apple.” I’m actually curious how this is possible. Does it download a carbon efficiency database for the detected region? Otherwise, how do you know the schedule for the best times? Is the database shipped with iOS? How granular is it?
I guess 'clean energy' tastes different to the phone or something. { sarcasm } This idea of different types of energy on the consumer end is pretty baseless. It's a complex energy-space and unless you have your own hydro power or such, maybe claims like this are theatre.
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