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All the computers? Aren't smart TVs actually dumb home theater PCs these days? Don't cars have several computers in them these days? Watches and smartphones? I
by humanrebar 3y ago
All the computers? Aren't smart TVs actually dumb home theater PCs these days? Don't cars have several computers in them these days? Watches and smartphones?
I thought the stat about how crypto is using nearly as much power as lighting more meaningful and surprising.
- AustinDev 3y agoIt's just residential lighting which isn't all that much energy usage. What makes all these numbers surprising is if you look at the yearly output of a nuclear powerplant which is ~8 billion kwh / year. We should probably build a bunch more nuclear plants to replace all of our fossil fuel plants.
- Swenrekcah 3y agoI would probably rather describe smartTVs as capable spying equipment.
- tcmart14 3y agoThat is where it gets blurry. What are we defining as a computer? Some coffee machines run Debian, do they count as a computer? Smart TVs pretty much are computers. Or are we only counting computers as something that runs Windows, MacOS or Desktop linux?