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Typical tech company will use 90% of it's energy running the HVAC unit so that Susan in accounting stops complaining about being cold but people will freak out cause the app uses slightly more energy.

"people freak out cause the app uses slightly more energy"

Multiply the "slightly" by 100 million installs!

Man, this is like when someone was arguing with me that Right on Reds is not that impactful to the environment, they said something like "Oh on average it only cuts off 30 seconds off of someone's commute."

...Ooookay, now times that by everyone commuting.

Most people do not work on apps that scale to that level.

How can a password manager require 80 threads to run on a Mac?Old version required 12.

Textbook case (culprit): Evernote

energy saved by rust backend to compensate for energy wasted by electron :D