Wouldn't be surprised if the only way to pitch it at the boardroom meeting was to tack "green" onto an otherwise convenient feature - since personal convenience is out of vogue and semi-ownership is the goalpost. Calling it anything else gives too much ground to the user, and like a creepy sociopathic groomer discord mod towards a tender 15 year old, Microsoft doesn't like that tone.
They will call it "green" for the same reason they passive-aggressively make you say "g-got it!" on every prompt across every piece of mainstream tech, which is to say they want to communicate that THEY'RE in control without actually saying it.
The Steve Jobs koolaid isn't wearing off anytime soon.
It's also been a feature on windows 10 and cell phones for a long long time. This is the epitome of virtue signaling. Doing a thing you're already doing and pretending it's some new resolution.
Being able to schedule downloads and standby is a nice feature. You don't need to dress it up in green bullshit.
Except MS explicitly made that worse in Win10, by automatically downloading and installing updates whenever it felt like, unless you set your connection to a metered one or put ridiculous active hours on your machine. Did Win11 actually revert it to what it was in older Windows versions, or was the Win11 update just a coat of paint?
Windows Update became carbon aware last year for Windows 11 PCs
Oh yeah, because I love waking up and finding out the massive files I left to download overnight didn't finish because of an automatic update! All this because fucking retards think every single nuclear reactor is a single dropped pin away from turning into a glowing, green crater.
Being carbon aware means reducing carbon footprint by optimizing updates and downloads to run at a time when the console can use the most renewable energy.
This sounds moronic, since "peak renewable times" are pointless since presumably that power is getting used anyway.
Essentially it sounds like this is Microsoft "stealing" renewable energy so they can slap a little label on saying they're green.
It doesn't sound like anything is being improved, or any less energy is being used.
Wouldn't be surprised if the only way to pitch it at the boardroom meeting was to tack "green" onto an otherwise convenient feature - since personal convenience is out of vogue and semi-ownership is the goalpost. Calling it anything else gives too much ground to the user, and like a creepy sociopathic groomer discord mod towards a tender 15 year old, Microsoft doesn't like that tone.
They will call it "green" for the same reason they passive-aggressively make you say "g-got it!" on every prompt across every piece of mainstream tech, which is to say they want to communicate that THEY'RE in control without actually saying it.
The Steve Jobs koolaid isn't wearing off anytime soon.
It's also been a feature on windows 10 and cell phones for a long long time. This is the epitome of virtue signaling. Doing a thing you're already doing and pretending it's some new resolution.
Faster transfer speeds and less likely to interrupt the device user by doing it overnight? Nah, fuck that. We're doing it to save carbon.
Except MS explicitly made that worse in Win10, by automatically downloading and installing updates whenever it felt like, unless you set your connection to a metered one or put ridiculous active hours on your machine. Did Win11 actually revert it to what it was in older Windows versions, or was the Win11 update just a coat of paint?
Oh yeah, because I love waking up and finding out the massive files I left to download overnight didn't finish because of an automatic update! All this because fucking retards think every single nuclear reactor is a single dropped pin away from turning into a glowing, green crater.
If it were true, at least it would purge the guilty alongside the innocent.
This sounds moronic, since "peak renewable times" are pointless since presumably that power is getting used anyway.
Essentially it sounds like this is Microsoft "stealing" renewable energy so they can slap a little label on saying they're green.
It doesn't sound like anything is being improved, or any less energy is being used.
Quick someone build an Xbox Rolling Coal mod.
An app that runs hashes but not for any actual crypto currency would be pretty funny.
that would be funny funnyer still is if it hits some obscure alt coin by acident once in a while.
It's even better for the environment if the xbox never turns on at all, better get right on that update
Wokebox is nao.
Brokebox is wow.
Think Microsoft will start updating old operating systems so hardware doesn't date too?
Don't want to throw away good machines