This is generally not true. If you are using your laptop as a home server chances are it's going to be idling 99% of the time and laptops are generally pretty good in terms of idle power draw if you manage to disable the screen (or just disconnect it, take it off and find a way to repurpose it)
And in terms of environmental impact saving a laptop from landfill is definitely better since the majority of a computers impact is from the co2 emmissions from the manufacturing process. And this isn't taking into account the likely ethical considerations such as supporting terrible mining practices for resources like cobalt.
The construction cite issue is a fair point. If you really need traffic maybe you should try using magic earth. It's not FOSS but the privacy would still be leagues better than Waze (which is owned by Google)
Thanks for asking i've been wondering myself actually. I looked it up and organic maps doesn't actually do traffic, although magic earth does (another not foss but apparenty privacy respecting map app that uses osm) It says it's just crowdsourced from the general public who uses magic earth (in an anonimous way, I guess there are enough magic earth uses for it to work since Some people say it works really well. (although others say it doesn't you should probably try it for yourself.)
On another note that I also found from my research just then, traffic knowing apps don't actually improve travel times but they do make previously congested places more congested.
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Edit: Magic earth is not foss so there is no way to varify that the app is actually respecting your privacy like it says it is, i'm sorry for any confusion.
Fair point. I have only been programming for about a year and I know basic loops as well as how to make functions and classes. Although I am by no means against learning a new skill!
The asci video player would be cool. I don't need to go to my web browser to watch youtube, I could do it in the terminal!
terminal spotify client also seams cool, although I wouldn't know where to start with that. I could just make an mp3 player, it would align with my idea of privacy.
What do you mean by ebook converter? does it convert physical book pages to ebooks? i'm slightly confused.
Also I love the cli based ideas we need more cli apps.
I heard that somewhere too. It might have been a while ago but he has said publicly a few times that he doesn't care much about which distro he uses doesn't switch very often.
Piracy isn't the only alternative to streaming! Please consider putting a side a certain amount of money each month to buy physical disks, making films isn't free and buying disks is the best way to suport them.
Then you can pirate the rest.
Considering that digital bights aren't really physical and therefore don't weigh anything "worth there weight in gold" doesn't really make sense here.
Sorry, I know it's a metaphor but I just had to.
This is generally not true. If you are using your laptop as a home server chances are it's going to be idling 99% of the time and laptops are generally pretty good in terms of idle power draw if you manage to disable the screen (or just disconnect it, take it off and find a way to repurpose it)
And in terms of environmental impact saving a laptop from landfill is definitely better since the majority of a computers impact is from the co2 emmissions from the manufacturing process. And this isn't taking into account the likely ethical considerations such as supporting terrible mining practices for resources like cobalt.