Great topic. I am unwilling to give up everything (especially when most others are willing to give up nothing), but have wondered how listening to music using a YT extension or on my phone - maybe with a Bluetooth speaker attached- would change power usage. Then, I wondered if the speaker would wear out faster than my PC speakers and that would be bad for the environment, too. Thanks to covid, many of us have become reclusive and the only entertainment we have is from technology. I rarely leave the house or even my room anymore. Even the library is a bit harder to access these days -even after shutdowns ended. You change this in order to save that and then something else gets screwed up that you failed to consider. People have said that people who live far from their jobs are “bad” because they waste so much gas commuting, but maybe they use less internet or technology and may even grow some of their own food or collect rainwater and dry clothes on a clothes line and open their windows on fair-weather days. My point might be ‘unintended consequences’.
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Well, if you build a network ziggurat with your neighbors and have edge servers caching the content (e.g. with Invidious), you can probably reduce power usage.
I just did before reading your comment and it is easier than I expected. Last week, I found out the other app I use to download had shut down.
but maybe they use less internet or technology and may even grow some of their own food or collect rainwater and dry clothes on a clothes line and open their windows on fair-weather days. My point might be ‘unintended consequences’.
Using streaming services is negligible compred to driving or even using communal transport such as a bus or train. Also IIRC city dwellers use less energy.
I wondered if the speaker would wear out faster than my PC speakers and that would be bad for the environment
You could use wired headphones.
those don’t wear out faster than other things- you know, those soft ear muffs usually deteriorate rapidly - faster than a speaker, I’d guess. It is good to care, but I think we skip details too often and miss the point. The man who mentioned not eating meat made the best point so far. No one is brave enough to say 'eat less and maintain a normal weight (consume less of everything)" , so I guess I will.
What an absolutely ridiculous premise. This is like how corporations paid for campaigns to blame ecological destruction on consumers for not properly recycling in order to completely shift the conversation away from their deliberate and massive exploitation of resources.
We can have ****ing online video we just need to replace cars with trains and fossil fuels with wind and solar… aghhghghhgg
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It seems like drm schemes cause a lot of the bloat. Everything being locked behind subscription fees with no option to permanently download means you have to download every viewing. And then most of the time the file is cut up into pieces and bounced around different servers to slow down pirates.
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