I really struggle to understand the direction of today’s society.
For years, we’ve been saying we need to reduce emissions and consumption, removing chargers from smartphone boxes “to pollute less,” then the “AI” comes along and we reopen fossil fuel power plants, increasing consumption and emissions for… well, who knows why!
We make people feel guilty for not switching to an electric car (or one with high energy efficiency), yet we fly for pure leisure, just to get “a few more likes” on YouTube.
We create increasingly efficient electronic devices, focus on the consumption and emissions of data centers (local or remote), and then stop optimizing code and dependencies because “there’s autoscaling” and “resources are cheap.”
To me, these are ideological short circuits.
#Sustainability
@joany@bsd.cafe I understand this. Today I was in a Zoom call - and I’m not using Zoom that much. After some minutes, my Macbook Pro M1 Pro (Apple Silicon) was getting hot.
I can’t believe how this machine can process audio and video “at the speed of light” (not exactly, but it’s really fast) and becomes hot just for a call with 4 parties.
We need to concentrate more on software efficiency.