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beeng, 8 months ago

Should have used middle mouse button instead

the_q, 8 months ago

Firefox. Get it.

Niiru, 8 months ago

The data verifiably never leaves the car

???

reuters.com/…/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-imag…

Send_me_nude_girls, 9 months ago

Actually everyone I knew who was watching F1 in Germany, stopped so once it went to pay TV.

DrNeurohax, 9 months ago

Mine works fine with my sub. Saved me a ton of money, though not as much as opting for the Value Tier carbon fiber for the hull. What's the worst that could ha

merde, 10 months ago

if Lorem Ipsum is the first information i have about an app, i don’t need to think about it. This is from their webpage 👉 https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/f713b805-897c-4af9-b145-cf08432d8156.webp

BigDanishGuy, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

*Edit: I tried updating this, when I submitted sh.itjust.works was down and I lost it… the edit that is.*Anyway I have now updated some grammar and put in some more context AND a tl;dr at the bottom. All for the low low price of my hyper focus.

Alright, it’s math time.

A quick google comes up with this blog post, which I haven’t vetted or even read at all, it just has a table with some stats dodonut.com/blog/does-dark-mode-save-battery/. I should probably also mention that I am going to use the most impressive savings in the following. Actual savings may be as little as a 4th.

Apparently going to dark mode with 100% brightness provide a net saving of 40% on a pixel 2. Let’s assume this is universally true for all OLED and AMOLED displays, LCD users won’t see a difference, neither will CRTs but (that was false, I’m an idiot) … I don’t think that I’ve heard of a CRT display on a phone.

40%? That sounds like a lot, doesn’t it?

Well yes and no, in relative terms it’s impressive, but it really depends on absolute terms. So how much does a phone use? The pixel 2 from before comes with a 10.39Wh battery, let’s assume an average use of 80% per day, then that comes out to 8.32Wh per day per phone. That means that the 40% reduction is 3.33Wh daily.

Is that a lot? Depends, if your only power source is a potato with a bit of copper and a galvanized nail, then yes, otherwise no.

Over the course of a year 3.33Wh a day comes to 1.215kWh.

Let’s put that into some context. The largest Vestas offshore wind turbine is the 15MW V236 www.vestas.com/en/products/offshore/V236-15MW. It can produce 80GWh annually. With the saving of 1.215kWh per phone, then for every approx 66 million OLED phones, we can skip erecting one offshore wind turbine.

But let’s look at a global impact. As of yesterday there were 8.05 billion people breathing on the planet. Let’s say they all achieve the maximum saving of 1.215kWh annually. That’s 9.78TWh. Presently there’s a handful of projects planned with the V236, offshorewind.biz/…/vestas-15-mw-prototype-now-at-…, totalling 7.3 GW, 486.6 units (I’ve got the figures for each project and added them up, so the number of units is an approximation) or 38.9TWh annually. So get everyone to achieve maximum saving, with technology most doesn’t have, and we can save a quarter of the planned pre-order of a turbine model that isn’t even done with testing.

tl;dr: dark mode does save power, but at best its effect is miniscule, and realistically utterly insignificant.

HungoverRabbit, 10 months ago

Screwed himself, nothing stopping him from pushing the fast pedal

zloubida, 10 months ago

I find it mildly infuriating that people still buy on Amazon 😅