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Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by carschno on Sunday May 03, 2026 @04:33AM (#47994798)
In literally must have missed that. When did Microsoft ever encourage energy saving? Is this related to power saving for extending laptop battery runtime? But then I don't get the link to renewable energy.

Anyway, I agree with the notion of the extreme energy-inefficiency of LLMs. The scale of it makes it hard to imagine any less efficient product will ever be invented.

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Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by shaky-carrousel on Sunday May 03, 2026 @04:38AM (#47994833)
They literally have a green leaf next to power saving options. Also, there's an option in windows upgrades to time the upgrades to when the grid is mostly renewables.
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Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by smcin on Sunday May 03, 2026 @06:06AM (#47995363)
Apparently since Windows 11, Sun Valley 2 update ("22H2"?) back around 3/2022.

https://www.pcgamer.com/windows-11-update-will-help-your-pc-...

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/04/22/reduc...

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Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by i_think_so on Sunday May 03, 2026 @05:04PM (#48001466)
Could this be hacked to schedule upgrades to only happen when the user is not about to join a meeting in 5 minutes?

"Yeah, uh, my local electric provider is burning coal 24/7 except at 9-10 pm on these 5 dates each year...."

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