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• mox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m online, and I commend you for continuing to use your hardware for as long as it does the job, instead of adding to the world’s energy, material, and e-waste problems. Well done.

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  • tekato@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    He is adding to the world’s energy given that an FX 8350 is slower than something like a Ryzen 5600 at twice the TDP.

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    • mox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Your hypothetical energy savings from new hardware is meaningless unless you subtract from it the energy use from manufacturing and distributing a new system, as well as that from disposing of the old one.

      Also, you haven’t addressed the other problems mentioned at all.

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      • tekato@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        you don’t know his actual usage

        Why would I need to know his usage? Whatever it might be, a newer CPU can do the same amount of work as an old CPU for a fraction of the energy.

        meaningless anyway unless you subtract from it the energy use from manufacturing and distributing a new system, as well as that from disposing of the old one.

        You mean the CPU that was already manufactured years ago and won’t magically disappear due to you refusing to upgrade to it? Whether you use it or not the energy to create it was already spent.

        you haven’t addressed the other problems mentioned at all

        And I didn’t mean to. I simply corrected you when you congratulated him for using less energy, which is not true.

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