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US Government Launches New Attempt to Gather Data on Electricity Usage of Bitcoin Mining (insideclimatenews.org)
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[–] jprice@kbin.run 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I know people that leave FO76 open just to farm click in game tokens that are worthless.

Is that the same thing? Because a lot of people do that type of energy waste.

He’s on 1300 hours rn. He paid for it. Totally weird tho. Dude is over 40.

[–] JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 6 points 4 months ago

It's not. A single miner often has like 4 GPUs running at 100% load, 24/7 and I doubt someone will build a 100 Megawatt facility with thousands of computers to get fallout tokens.

Though it is the same thing in the sense of running computer to generate worthless digital tokens. The main difference in that sense is that fallout tokens do actually have a use(in game)!

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Tangent to leaving FO76 open...

Makes me wonder how much energy is wasted by people just leaving their desktop computers on.

I know I used to be bad about that and eventually made a concerted effort to always sleep or turn it off.

I'm also glad LED lights are a thing now. I'm a lot better at turning lights off now as well, but at least if one gets forgotten on now it's like 10x less waste.

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 1 points 3 months ago

I know people who just leave games running in the background for a whole day while they're gone. I honestly have no idea why someone would do that