“The 2026 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, more commonly known as COP31, is being held at the Expo Center in Antalya, Turkey, from 9 to 20 November 2026. It is the 31st session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).”
And this event has an entirely AI slop website. This is literally the proof that these bullshit conferences never try to accomplish what they claim. I’m so ashamed of my country.
Not exactly, there are a lot of different kinds of displays and depending on the implementation they may or may not consume less energy depending on the comulative brightness of all the pixels. Even LCD panels nowadays have what’s known as “dimming zones” sometimes, which is basically instead of using one huge light behind the pixels uses a matrix of smaller lights and can dim the lights behind darker areas that way, which leads to less energy consumed. It’s mostly used for HDR instead of energy saving, though.
But in general the idea is correct: not all displays will consume less power in dark mode, a lot of them will blast the backlight anyway and block the light with the pixels afterwards, actually resulting in your display being heated a bit more than when using light mode.
A more important point is whether it works or not, displays make a very little portion of global energy consumption and whoever is trying to make you feel better by using less energy with your display is just trying to lead you away from taking actual action against people actively trying to extract all the possible value out of our planet.
I see, didn’t know about dimming zones. If it’s related to HDR, probably none of the devices we have have that though.
The best screens for energy saving are e-ink screens but they are way too expensive for PC monitors. I hope they get cheaper in time, I would love to replace my vertical monitor with an e-ink one.
It’s basically mandatory for HDR, but useful and somewhat common for normal/SDR as well.
E-ink for PC screens is still not practical, too slow.
Just for the fun of it I’d love to own a flipdot display of some usable resolution. I would probably want to build one myself, though, the ones sold make a terrible sound when flipping multiple pixels at the same time.
I love that sound. But building one from scratch is probably really fun. Power management and cooling might be issues though.
Well, if I want to use it as a party trick and make my friends watch Shrek on it, the sound would probably get very annoying after the first 5 minutes.
Here is an idea: Make it show Bad Apple but also the flipping sounds make the melody. Not sure if that’s possible though, but probably possible. :)
Flipping sounds are static and not dependent on anything no?
By static if you mean every modul has the same fixed mechanic, it wouldn’t be possible. If they could be controlled individually, then maybe. I don’t know how flipdot screens work, so it was just an idea.