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In literally must have missed that. When did Microsoft ever encourage energy saving? Is this related to power saving for extending laptop battery runtime? But
by carschno 5mo ago
In literally must have missed that. When did Microsoft ever encourage energy saving?
Is this related to power saving for extending laptop battery runtime? But then I don't get the link to renewable energy.
Anyway, I agree with the notion of the extreme energy-inefficiency of LLMs. The scale of it makes it hard to imagine any less efficient product will ever be invented.
- shaky-carrousel 5mo agoThey literally have a green leaf next to power saving options. Also, there's an option in windows upgrades to time the upgrades to when the grid is mostly renewables.
- smcin 5mo agoApparently since Windows 11, Sun Valley 2 update ("22H2"?) back around 3/2022. https://www.pcgamer.com/windows-11-update-will-help-your-pc-prioritise-renewable-energy/ https://www.pcgamer.com/windows-11-update-will-help-your-pc-... https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/04/22/reducing-the-environmental-impact-of-windows-devices/ https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/04/22/reduc...
- i_think_so 5mo agoCould this be hacked to schedule upgrades to only happen when the user is not about to join a meeting in 5 minutes? "Yeah, uh, my local electric provider is burning coal 24/7 except at 9-10 pm on these 5 dates each year...."