Windows Update is now carbon aware • Hacker News Board

Re: Windows Update is now carbon aware

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Post by thewisenerd » Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 4:08 PM UTC

Beltalowda wrote: post #9

clnq wrote: post #7

Wow… saving the planet by moving half a Watt of power consumption per PC to a greener time slot. I don’t think I have ever heard someone do less about emissions and brag about it. I’m sure it will look good on paper in some report - 500 tons of CO2 saved in a year globally or whatever. Just… ignore all the hardware obsolescence they tried to impose by Windows 11 requirements.

I wll strt mttng vwls frm my cmmnts t rduc nrgy cnsumptn. Svng th plnt n vwl t a tm!

this will break current implementations of brotli, please dont!

Re: Windows Update is now carbon aware

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Post by DwnVoteHoneyPot » Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 4:27 PM UTC

Beltalowda wrote: post #9

clnq wrote: post #7

Wow… saving the planet by moving half a Watt of power consumption per PC to a greener time slot. I don’t think I have ever heard someone do less about emissions and brag about it. I’m sure it will look good on paper in some report - 500 tons of CO2 saved in a year globally or whatever. Just… ignore all the hardware obsolescence they tried to impose by Windows 11 requirements.

I wll strt mttng vwls frm my cmmnts t rduc nrgy cnsumptn. Svng th plnt n vwl t a tm!

Yu cn’t rmve vwls (or any lttr) frm bgnnng or end of wrd bcse it’ll be too hrd to rd. Fr exmple, “mttng” ws a tgh one to dcpher.

You can eevn scrbmle the wrods, but as lnog as you lavee the frist and lsat ltteres, it’ll stlil be reabadle.

Re: Windows Update is now carbon aware

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Post by dzhiurgis » Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 5:05 PM UTC

My estimates for iOS’ same daily charging feature was about one coal plant

Re: Windows Update is now carbon aware

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Post by hulitu » Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 5:44 PM UTC

> Windows Update is now carbon aware

Well, in the future, maybe it will become bugs aware, that is, they will start fixing bugs instead of doing greenwashing.

Re: Windows Update is now carbon aware

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Post by karmakaze » Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 6:09 PM UTC

danjc wrote: post #4

Ugh. Insufferable green virtue signalling.

This might come back to bite MS. If we make all apps and OSes carbon transparent, then it could become visible that Windows is the least efficient of popular platforms and we should stop running it.

I do like the apps consuming most battery listing on Android. If any app that I don't use much appears there I uninstall it. Do desktop OSes have this?

Re: Windows Update is now carbon aware

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Post by clnq » Mon, Jan 16, 2023, 1:23 AM UTC

Beltalowda wrote: post #9

clnq wrote: post #7

Wow… saving the planet by moving half a Watt of power consumption per PC to a greener time slot. I don’t think I have ever heard someone do less about emissions and brag about it. I’m sure it will look good on paper in some report - 500 tons of CO2 saved in a year globally or whatever. Just… ignore all the hardware obsolescence they tried to impose by Windows 11 requirements.

I wll strt mttng vwls frm my cmmnts t rduc nrgy cnsumptn. Svng th plnt n vwl t a tm!

Since the text is black for most Hacker News readers, and more text turns off more pixels on their screens, my carbon pledge is to increase the number of vowels in my messages by 15% by 2055.

To compound the carbon-negative effect of my pledge, I will bully people into replacing their supposedly obsolete displays with OLED ones that actually dim/turn off those black pixels. Yes, that'll put carbon right back where it belongs.