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Cake day: July 19th, 2023

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  • Although you’re right that that energy is not spent cooking, it is helping to heat your home, and save you mental energy. Energy you can spend calculating how much energy you’re actually saving.

    You’re talking about a couple hundred watts. You could cook non-stop for your entire life and you still wouldn’t waste as much energy as a single flight with a modern airplane.

    We’re spending more just typing on our phones today, considering the phone, the inefficient charger left plugged in, the server of the platform we’re posting on.

    Try seeing of any of the lamps in your house can be upgraded to led. That could save you hundreds of watts for hours every day. (hundreds of watts per hour).
    Go to work by bicycle, or train, or bus. (thousands of watts a day)\










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    1. private, secure dns, so they don’t know the domains you’re visiting
    2. https everywhere, so they can’t see any of the data you’re sending or receiving

    All that’s left is what ip’s you’re connecting to. Which is useless half the time, especially since most websites are behind cloudflare or some other anti-ddos proxy already.

    Also, don’t use the web browser that came with your phone. Some manufacturers and isp’s might enjoy adding tracking into those. Some, like Apple, even got caught not encrypting amy of that.

    Side note:

    • https everywhere is pretty much the standard in modern web browsers
    • an adblocker can still help a lot in blocking trackers
    • a secure dns you can find in your browser settings