The environmental impact of technology devices is getting worse

Re:The environmental impact of technology devices is getting... by brolover on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @06:43AM (#17028819)

Exactly. The amount of energy spent on heating and cooling is huge. Then it's transportation and agriculture. Then somewhere far behind is the whole Internet and efficient electronic devices.

I use the same argument when it comes to bitcoin. That stuff is so tiny in our profiler. Sane thing to do is to optimize the slowest functions.

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Re:The environmental impact of technology devices is getting... by exodust on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @08:28AM (#17029268)

> efficient electronic devices

When hardware has a two year average life cycle, the environment is not benefiting from any of the hardware's efficient characteristics. You seem happy with your new phone though, I guess that's the main thing.

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Re:The environmental impact of technology devices is getting... by brolover on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @01:40PM (#17031913)

I'm using xperia mini st15i, personally optimized ROM. Yet still, no industry comes no where close to heating and cooling.

Let's optimize the slowest functions not tiny percentages.

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