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They could make the theme for bing and other microsoft websites dark instead of white, literally just a change of color, if they wanted to reduce screen power u
by vasco 3y ago
They could make the theme for bing and other microsoft websites dark instead of white, literally just a change of color, if they wanted to reduce screen power usage globally - so many "no impact" changes with software that this has to be a fake justification.
- gambiting 3y agoHow would that help in the slightest though? Majority of monitors worldwide are just normal TN/IPS/VA panels, for them the colour of the pixels makes absolutely no difference in power consumption. While OLED monitors exist, they are pretty much a niche within a niche.
- murderfs 3y agoLots of monitors (probably most at this point?) have multiple backlighting zones in order to cheat at contrast ratio measurements.
- gambiting 3y agoFALD? It's so rare it's practically unheard of, some very high end HDR-compatible monitors have it, but I wouldn't describe it even remotely as "most". In fact I'll eat my hat if 99.99999% of monitors out there use anything other than edge-lit panels that don't change brighthness no matter what you display.
- alpaca128 3y agoIt's weird MS isn't doing that yet given their own OS and its apps already support dark mode, and websites can detect this setting as well.