Amen on that. The past few rigs I built for myself were all ITX machines. I went through and undervolted my CPU, RAM, and GPU. Once my current gaming rig dies I'm just going to stick with the consoles for gaming until they goes to shit as well.
In an era of abundance we seem to be trying to use more power to support what we already do, rather than rethinking what we do to use less power. It's a shame!
Honestly I could I could easily solar power all of my compute needs (and probably a lot more) from my apartment's roof.
But at last, I'm a renter and my property management isn't going to allow that.
We're literally wasting clean energy because of a bunch of rich turds hogging real estate with shitty rules about what you can't do. When my property changed management the new management even banned EV charging on the property and locked up all the outlets in the parking lot. These kind of management are not welcome in Silicon Valley but somehow they are here.
It jumbles my jimmies hearing about outright rejection of modern tech by industries that would best benefit from said tech.
I'd almost be willing to bet money that your landlord would charge a "renewable energy" fee even if they're just dumping power back to the grid for $$$ even if they had the panels
In an era of abundance we seem to be trying to use more power to support what we already do, rather than rethinking what we do to use less power. It's a shame!