• rhacer@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    More interestingly, lamps in video games use the same amount of real electricity if they are on or off.

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      2 months ago

      Not necessarily, on OLED displays (which are definitely a thing for desktop computers and TVs) a light that’s turned off is using less power because the pixels the lamp is displayed on (and the ones around it too) are dimmer.