randomblock1 comments on UK Asks People to Delete Emails In Order to Save Water During Drought

[–] randomblock1@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Networking is remarkably efficient, and so is decoding images, because processors do it so quickly. For more intensive tasks like video, hardware decoders make them efficient. All email is to the client computer is making a request for data, processing that into a list that can be displayed, and displaying it. I'm pretty sure just having the screen on is orders of magnitude more power hungry.

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[–] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Yeah i know it is efficient. That does not chance the fact i would like to know the numbers.

Also client side is only the client side. I bet email services have plenty of SSR that start to happen the moment you are in the login window.

Im dont belive it has any real effect. Im just curious to hear any numbers so i dont need to trust my feelings and i can operate on facts.

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[–] randomblock1@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Given the difference in server CPU/memory/storage/network/scale, I don't think it's possible to get any number with confidence. Maybe you could self host, but that wouldn't be representative of real email servers. Plus different email providers handle emails differently.

And cloud providers probably automatically scale with load, Gmail probably uses more power during work hours than after.

Also SSR is relatively new and email services are ancient, I'd be surprised if any used it. I'm not even sure if it's a good idea for email.

Plus it would probably vary with how many emails you have in your inbox...

I just don't think it's possible to get an actual number.

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