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Own your own fucking responsibility (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 4 months ago by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] yobasari@feddit.org 279 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (28 children)

The numbers are are also clearly fictive. Driving a car for 4 miles uses about half a liter of fuel. A liter of gasoline contains about 9kwh of energy meaning, that you would use about 4.5 kwh per half hour of streaming. So the servers would have to draw about 9 KW to serve a single person? That would be like 10 gaming PCs running at full power to serve one person. Are they animating the shows in real time? No compression algorithm is that inefficient and no hard drive uses that much energy.

edit: also they could never be profitable like that. Let's say you watch three hours per day. That would be 9kWx3hrsx30days=810kwh per month. Even if they only pay 5 cents a kWh that would still be over $40 per month just in electricity cost for one user.

[–] hitwright@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Trying the close to best scenario I can think of for the tweet to be correct

4 miles is about 6.5 km (rounding up)

Ford fiesta takes uses 6 litres over 100 km (tiny car also rounded down)

0.39l of gasoline is about 3.5 kwh (rounded down)

Well the next step would be apply loved trick: Engine only pases around 1/5 of gasoline energy to useful energy, so that number can be used to make it more possible We get 0.7kwh

Half an hour would give us 0.35kwh

Beffy Gaming PC uses around 400w (my gaming pc uses less) when doing light tasks, so that gives around 0.2kwh

Since I love drinking tea, that leaves me 0.15kwh for a whole litre of tea to chug down every 30 minutes

So with my average binge session I would have consume around 12 litres of tea for the tweet to be viable

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No gaming PC should use 400W unless it's under heavy load.

[–] hitwright@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah, you're right. I tried my best to make the numbers work and still couldn't reach the bullshit tweet

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