I also enjoy kagi and have been trying to use it more recently
> Using Kagi Search will benefit the environment as well as you!
This reminds me of people who use dark mode then claim they are saving electricity because black uses less energy. Lulz.
I mean, that's literally true for OLED devices. It's in the bucket of "who cares if you burn 10W on a screen when your appliances are burning multiple kW at once", but it is strictly true.
Also, weirdly enough, the recent huge spikes in temperature we’ve seen worldwide has in part been due to regulations put in place to prevent some giant barges from burning the dirtiest fuel possible, preventing huge amounts of sulfur dioxide from blanketing our oceans. That gas actually causes cloud seeding and the lack of it recently has significantly increased global temperatures. Scientists are now scrambling to figure out a less toxic way of emulating exactly the effect those huge barges had to block the suns radiation. Just wanted to throw that in because these conversations are can be more complex than they seem on the surface.
The existence of major transgressors of laws/regulations/norms/ethics shouldn’t factor into our care for reducing the prevalence of minor transgressors.
FWIW, the scope 3 GHG emissions of Alphabet seem to be similar to a major airport like London Heathrow.
One small way software engineers can try to fight it though is by trying to reduce electronic waste through having a well-maintained high-quality polished Linux distro for mobile phones, so that we’re no longer forced to suffer a lack of software updates due to a “end of life” determined by the manufacturer.