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OniLink
@OniLink

I don't want to see hardware manufacturers pushing for higher performance. I want to see hardware manufacturers pushing for more power efficiency, maintaining current performance with less electricity and less heat output. I want to see hardware manufacturers pushing for hardware designs that see less of a burden to produce on the environment and on the people who extract the raw materials. I want to see the people extracting the raw materials treated better, paid better. I want to see software developers looking into more efficient implementations of their programs, making better use of the performance we do have available.

EDIT: I also want to see hardware manufacturers reclaiming the hardware they made that is outdated and no longer in use to return it to raw materials and reuse it to make the next generations of parts. Enough dumping this shit in landfills. Enough overmining of resources when we already have plenty.


maddievision
@maddievision
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in reply to @OniLink's post:

Someday the chip fabs are just gonna stop and we're gonna have to use the machines we've got, and there's not many people specialized in that discipline anymore. It used to be standard practice, back when PCs were severely resource restricted and strictly monotaskers.

I second this but also like this for software. I'm so tired of how bloated and incredibly wasteful a not of modern websites and applications are. It's not even the programmers who are at fault a lot of the time. It's just companies with infinite money trying to pinch pennies and we end up paying for it.

I've readopted Nokia E7-00 from 2011 as my secondary phone, and it gets about a week on a single charge. Admitedly, it gets very light usage. On the other hand, it does get usage and it is running off of a 13 year old battery.