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PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I have a whole bunch plugged in constantly for various synth nonsense. Running off solar, I thought it would be worth seeing how much of a difference it makes turning everything off at night, and basically it wasn’t worth the effort. It’s like a percentage point on top of the things like my fridge that run constantly, and is way less than using my toaster once a week. That said, if you’re on mains, it’s probably a worthy consideration if a lot of people were to do it, but it’s also probably comparable to using ChatGPT once a day or something

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Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Cool cool cool. I’ll just continue not using chatgpt and we’ll call it a wash.

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- PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah, that’s pretty much my attitude. Why am I worrying about a watt here and a watt there when muppets are constantly asking LLMs inane questions and getting them to make dodgy hentai.
  
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WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The article is very light on details. There are better articles with some real numbers.

Chargers for a phone draw 0.1W roughly. That’s 0.9 kWh per year, and with a price of €0.35/kWh would be €0.32 / year / charger you leave plugged in. That’s not even a rounding error compared to what my heat pump uses.

Devices with an indicator light barely use anything more. The ones with a display or clock do use more power, usually a few watt, what then comes down to maybe €10 / device / year using napkin math.

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