Linux Saves Planet Earth

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Ziggi
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Linux Saves Planet Earth

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Rather than buying a new must have this year please consider keeping your existing laptop-computer or upgrading by buying used or refurbished. You may also help save the environment by not wasting your money on RAM that will never get used – my 2008 HP laptop has just 3GiB RAM and with LXDE does most stuff including video making and video editing. Before you freak out; understand that it was purchased new to demonstrate my engineering designs on 3D CAD SolidWorks under WinVista; to clients around the world – so running web browsers, video editor, whatever under AntiX-22 Full LXDE is a breeze.

Some refurbished laptop-computer outlets are quoting carbon emission savings for each refurb product - cool
The production of more than 272 million new computers annually suggests that the manufacturing IT sector contributes just as much greenhouse gas pollution to the atmosphere as the entire aircraft industry.
On average, a new laptop produces 330 kgs of carbon dioxide (CO2) during manufacture.
This means that just three brand-new laptops generate around a thousand kilograms of CO2, which is comparable to filling an entire three-bedroom house.
The production and materials needed to make the motherboard, SSD and display account for the majority of a laptop’s emissions, which range from 75% to 85% of its entire carbon footprint.

Then there is the massive environmental cost of procuring the materials to make your new laptop-computer phone – whatever.
Mining - What cost? – the lives of innocent children who may never get to own a laptop-computer?

https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... ys-amnesty
https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... ing-deaths
https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/02/ ... ric-future
Elon Musk’s worst nightmare: child labour and cobalt supply….
https://www.mining.com/web/elon-musks-w ... lt-supply/
Lithium giant’s link to slave labour region puts Tesla in spotlight…
https://www.afr.com/companies/mining/li ... 718-p5b2ce

Lithium, Cobalt, Gold, Copper and Rare Earth Elements..!

Money Talks, Money Corrupts – There are only so many places at the table or trough – dig…?
(I’m the Slime – Frank Zappa; way ahead of his time :) )

A recent Linux post would have us believe that saving your old laptop-computers from the massive eWaste Mountain killing Planet Earth; by breathing new life into them with Linux was a bad idea..?

Some Fossil Fuel fossils say that it is not eco-friendly to inject Lovely Linux – they are not energy efficient – Modern is more efficient many fossils say…. What…!

Can’t imagine Clive Sinclair would design anything inefficient – can you? The Spectrum was released as six different models, ranging from the entry level with 16 KB RAM released in 1982 to the ZX Spectrum +3 with 128 KB RAM and built in floppy disk drive in 1987; altogether they sold over 5 million units worldwide (not counting unofficial clones). The PSU power supply with 5V and 12V output, 2 Amp or 10W to 24W if you prefer – Ye Olde British Efficiency.

Let us take a look at my old 2008 HP Laptop which does not even need all of it’s 65W output with my gnu-linux miniMAX LXDE setup – then fast forward to a modern Dell XPS Laptop which needs double the power supply output - 130 Watt E5 Type-C AC Adapter and the Acer Predator Helios 300 comes with a 180Wh charger.
For an actual reading in use plug in a Wattmeter available everywhere - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattmeter

Well that’s my two penny’s worth - please feel free to disagree – Ziggi

ps: It is great to reflect once in a while; what a gift gnu-linux is. To allow this old fool to experiment and perhaps learn a little along the way…