Pick your battles, green software edition

Thomas Broyer on what battles are most worth picking when you want to make software more sustainable:

So, what have we learned so far?

It's important that end users keep their devices longer,

we can't do much about networks,

the location (geographic region and datacenter) of servers matter a lot, more so than how and how much we use them.

(From: Climate-friendly software: don't fight the wrong battle)

Hidde de Vries (@hdv@front-end.social) is a web enthusiast and accessibility specialist from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He currently works with the NL Design System team and is a participant in the Open UI Community Group. Previously, he worked for W3C (WAI), Mozilla, the Dutch government and others as a freelancer. Hidde spoke at 76 events, most recently in Virtual.

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