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nop probably a very bad idea even if you had enough iPhones and you could parallelise them, it would be 10x less electricity efficient
by romain_batlle 1y ago
nop probably a very bad idea even if you had enough iPhones and you could parallelise them, it would be 10x less electricity efficient
- lucb1e 1y agoManufacturing newer CPUs makes sense only if the device it's meant to replace is like 25 years old: "The emissions from production of computing devices far exceed the emissions from operating them" [...] "the European Environmental Bureau [7] makes the scale of the problem very clear. For laptops and similar computers, manufacturing, distribution and disposal account for 52% of their Global Warming Potential [...]. For mobile phones, this is 72%. The report calculates that the lifetime of these devices should be at least 25 years" https://wimvanderbauwhede.codeberg.page/articles/frugal-computing/ https://wimvanderbauwhede.codeberg.page/articles/frugal-comp...