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this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2020
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When an app is installed on millions of devices, making it more efficient can actually make a not insignificant difference in overall power consumption, and therefore environmental impact.
I'd love if someone did that calculation too. Could be a LOT of watt-hours per day just wasted by things like discord.
The KDE project has been focusing on sustainability, as a system efficiency metric, for some time now.
If you'd like to read more.