Message-ID: <68cf3853@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: Favorite Font Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc References: <1835a5c81ceedfd3$44418$19313$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <20250414092849.00004cdd@gmail.com> <87wmbcguz9.fsf@somewhere.edu> <87wm5u9jh8.fsf@somewhere.edu> <68cec4ae$0$16841$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10amj0m$160hk$9@dont-email.me> User-Agent: tin/2.6.5-20250707 ("Helmsdale") (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 21 Sep 2025 09:27:15 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 40 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:697375 comp.os.linux.misc:74669 In comp.os.linux.misc Richard Kettlewell wrote: > The Natural Philosopher writes: >> On 20/09/2025 16:13, Stephane CARPENTIER wrote: >>> It's important because people always believe that printing paper is bad >>> for nature when using computer isn't. So, when you are reading an email, >>> your computer is using electricity. And very few people manage their >>> email by themselves, the emails are stored in Data Centers which rely >>> heavily on electricity. >>> So, to be short: reading something on your computer has the same >>> impact >>> on nature as printing it. >> >> A true ArtStudent(TM) statement. >> >> With no QUANTITATIVE analysis to back it up. >> >> First off, the email is stored in a data centre whether you read it on >> screen or print it out. And storage does not consume watts. Accessing >> it does. > > I'd expect online storage to consume at least some energy even when idle > - though probably negligible for this particular discussion. Surely negligible. The fact is that if each email used very much electricity to store/process, it would be too expensive for providers like Google to offer that service for free. Can you imagine that happening if Google were obliged to print out every email received in every GMail inbox? Mind you I generally download my emails with POP, so they _don't_ stay in data centres permanently anyway. I very rarely print emails out, but I do like doing that for longer documents since it's easier to jump around a document in physical form, finding and comparing different sections. I sometimes print out source code for the same reason (as well as to allow for writing more flexible notes and annotation). -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#