• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What does this save, like a milliwatt per year? One of the stupidest things I have ever seen.

    • persolb@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Sending the JavaScript to do this literally uses more electricity than this saves.

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        1 year ago

        This is classic. Corpos that are the biggest polluters are also the ones that push hardest on the idea of “carbon footprint”

        The more they can convince people that climate change is their fault, the less likely people vote for a government that will regulate the corpos

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      1 year ago

      Back in CRT days, the difference between full white and full black could be as much as 100W. Before dark mode existed, people developed sites like Blackle to reduce the power usage of Googling.