If you are planning to Netflix and chilling - stop it you are killing the planet

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xoggoth replied

26 April 2021, 13:14
Originally posted by ladymuck View Post

Ah nice to see the Fail have moved on from "everything you eat causes cancer" to "everything you do destroys the planet"

I'm actually thinking of cancelling my Netflix subscription anyway as I just don't watch it.

Totally agree with you. Rarely find anything worth watching apart from Sponge Bob Squarepants.
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d000hg replied

26 April 2021, 12:06
Originally posted by vetran View Post

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ng-planet.html

Bit of a glass half full attitude. An hour long Teams/zoom meeting saves driving 24 miles.

So how does watching an hour streaming compare with watching an hour of normal TV, or a DVD, or a digital video you have stored locally? I'd have thought Netflix et al have the most efficient servers available.
But then how much emissions IS a 1/4 mile drive? "One hour of Netflix is same environmental impact as 15s of driving" doesn't have quite the same ring to it...
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OwlHoot replied

26 April 2021, 11:43
Originally posted by ladymuck View Post

Ah nice to see the Fail have moved on from "everything you eat causes cancer" to "everything you do destroys the planet"

I'm actually thinking of cancelling my Netflix subscription anyway as I just don't watch it.

What drives me potty about Netflix is they way the text summaries don't keep up when one is clicking through the films and series lists. Also, there isn't a summary at all once you have dipped into a film - You have to delve into it again to see the summary.

I mean an image of a film must be a good 100 KB at least, and the summary text is rarely more than 200 bytes. So it can only be very poor design that the text has to be treated so differently to the image that this delay is caused, even allowing for multilingual text provision.
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ladymuck replied

26 April 2021, 09:44
Originally posted by vetran View Post

I just had this image of people 'chilling with their clothes off' on the sofa and a massive picture of Greta appearing on the screen shouting "you are destroying my future!!!!" Talk about coitus interruptus!
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vetran replied

26 April 2021, 09:27
Originally posted by ladymuck View Post

Ah nice to see the Fail have moved on from "everything you eat causes cancer" to "everything you do destroys the planet"

I'm actually thinking of cancelling my Netflix subscription anyway as I just don't watch it.

I just had this image of people 'chilling with their clothes off' on the sofa and a massive picture of Greta appearing on the screen shouting "you are destroying my future!!!!" Talk about coitus interruptus!
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ladymuck replied

26 April 2021, 09:14
Ah nice to see the Fail have moved on from "everything you eat causes cancer" to "everything you do destroys the planet"

I'm actually thinking of cancelling my Netflix subscription anyway as I just don't watch it.
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vetran started a topic If you are planning to Netflix and chilling - stop it you are killing the planet

26 April 2021, 09:10
If you are planning to Netflix and chilling - stop it you are killing the planet

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ng-planet.html

How your Netflix habit could be harming the planet: Amazingly, watching an hour of streamed video produces as much CO2 as driving a quarter of a mile. And that's not the only hidden environmental cost of your digital footprint, writes STEVE BOGGAN

Bit of a glass half full attitude. An hour long Teams/zoom meeting saves driving 24 miles.
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