• LostXOR@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    Only if you’ve got an OLED display, for LCDs you’re using roughly the same energy as long as your display’s backlight is on.

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      1 month ago

      They’re not talking the amount of use, but just the sheer fact that if you see an electric light in a video game, it’s being powered by real world electricity, just like a normal light is.

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      1 month ago

      The bits to make the light be shown by the cpu/gpu use the magic zip zap tho