They have taken us for fools
I don't have the effort to make the whole meme today but on the rare occasion I actually go to a site that hasn't been banned from loading video in the browser already, it always uses a hilarious amount of CPU. "Well that's just because video takes a lot of compute!" Nope, I can load the same stream in MPV and use like 50% less CPU, probably even more dramatic power savings since I imagine that's mostly loading up one core and making turbo freak out. You know what, let's test that real quick.
lots of leaning under my desk to read the UPS later
Mostly hitting 230-240W at the UPS loading in the web browser. 200-210 running in MPV, and it uses about the same with no video at all. Those numbers are pretty skewed because my UPS has other stuff plugged in but, 30W of power just to run a damn 720P video when the computer could do it for almost nothing instead is a joke.
Encouraged to try and use my laptop more because it can do most of the things my desktop can for a fraction of the power dang