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Re:Does Showing Seconds in the System Tray Use More Power? by aksss on Sunday July 13, 2025 @02:15PM (#44552293)
Better analogy would be reducing your MPGs (fuel efficiency) to show a more precise clock, and arguably we all make that sacrifice to get CarPlay.

Energy isn’t free.

Even if they wrote more performant code, it would just mean less relative loss of energy to show seconds but still loss compared to not showing seconds.

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Re:Does Showing Seconds in the System Tray Use More Power? by pavel_lishin on Sunday July 13, 2025 @02:22PM (#44552343)
Of course it's not free - TANSTAAFL - but it should certainly not increase energy consumption by 13%!
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