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Windows Update is now carbon aware

by praving5 on 1/15/23, 12:33 PM with 14 comments

• by clnq on 1/15/23, 2:29 PM

  Wow… saving the planet by moving half a Watt of power consumption per PC to a greener time slot. I don’t think I have ever heard someone do less about emissions and brag about it.

  I’m sure it will look good on paper in some report - 500 tons of CO2 saved in a year globally or whatever. Just… ignore all the hardware obsolescence they tried to impose by Windows 11 requirements.

• by oifjsidjf on 1/15/23, 12:58 PM

  How long until I won't be able to run my CPU at max power unless I pay an extra carbon tax?

• by danjc on 1/15/23, 2:08 PM

  Ugh. Insufferable green virtue signalling.

• by kotaKat on 1/15/23, 2:14 PM

  Okay, but I'm getting sick of being shamed by Windows 11 about my carbon emissions with the various other system suggestions like my backlight being "too high". How do I turn them off?

  Not my fault I have a light deficiency that requires I have to crank lights to full to be able to see.

• by Torlan on 1/15/23, 2:28 PM

  Or they can just stop using Electron in their apps

• by hulitu on 1/15/23, 5:44 PM

  > Windows Update is now carbon aware

  Well, in the future, maybe it will become bugs aware, that is, they will start fixing bugs instead of doing greenwashing.

• by dzhiurgis on 1/15/23, 5:05 PM

  My estimates for iOS’ same daily charging feature was about one coal plant