It feels like the major environmental cost is in the manufacture of new devices. If software were properly optimized, I wouldn’t need to upgrade my machinery.

It feels like the major environmental cost is in the manufacture of new devices. If software were properly optimized, I wouldn’t need to upgrade my machinery. We’d need one fewer open cast mines to dig out rare earth metals. Less shipping. More recycling. (Related, but tangential to web dev: device repair.) I have no idea what I’m talking about though. I come to this site to find people who do.