dark theme › slower battery usage › charging less often › less electricity usage › less coal power plants › less emissions › solved global warming. It’s simple really. Now you just need to turn off the tap while you brush your teeth.
Believe me, it’s not a strawman. My friend does this, and I have tried many times to stop him from doing that, including trying to reason with him or just turning it off for him. He still does it. Not that he refuses to turn off the tap, he always agrees to remember to turn it off but just never remembers to do so.
Yeah, I’m assuming that’s the implications. Just more of “unplug chargers you aren’t using” and other now useless advice from 10 years ago before regulations were introduced/new evidence was found
In case anyone’s wondering, unplugging chargers apparently only saves 0.5% of household energy use. And on this page about saving electricity on computer use, “turning on dark mode” doesn’t even make the list of recommendations. Basically the main thing recommended was “put your computer to sleep when you’re not using it.”
The dark theme on their website isn’t even completely black… It’s a dark grey. The power consumption difference even on OLEDs would be very little, if anything at all.
dark theme › slower battery usage › charging less often › less electricity usage › less coal power plants › less emissions › solved global warming. It’s simple really. Now you just need to turn off the tap while you brush your teeth.
Only on OLED phones
Do… Do people leave the tap on? Why?? That doesn’t make sense.
Exactly, I think it was a strawman made up by corporations so that they would look good trying to discipline people (put them on a moral pedestal)
Believe me, it’s not a strawman. My friend does this, and I have tried many times to stop him from doing that, including trying to reason with him or just turning it off for him. He still does it. Not that he refuses to turn off the tap, he always agrees to remember to turn it off but just never remembers to do so.
Yes of course howelse am i gonna shower?
Do they actually explain that anywhere on their site, besides the short sentence from the pic?
🤷 But well pointed out, I did have to make a lot of assumptions to come up with this explanation. I can’t see what else they’d be implying though
Yeah, I’m assuming that’s the implications. Just more of “unplug chargers you aren’t using” and other now useless advice from 10 years ago before regulations were introduced/new evidence was found
In case anyone’s wondering, unplugging chargers apparently only saves 0.5% of household energy use. And on this page about saving electricity on computer use, “turning on dark mode” doesn’t even make the list of recommendations. Basically the main thing recommended was “put your computer to sleep when you’re not using it.”
The dark theme on their website isn’t even completely black… It’s a dark grey. The power consumption difference even on OLEDs would be very little, if anything at all.
Most important point: …and anyone that thinks its unnecessary is destroying the planet. And that is a fact.