It's all those ones and zeros. They're stressing the system. Well, mainly it's the ones. The zeros aren't really a problem at all, except when they interrupt the ones, which admittedly they often do.
-- some official
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2025
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I’m unsure if that’s borrowed from somewhere, but I read that in Monty Python.
Later, the same official was quoted as saying "The Larch"
This makes me angry.
"Boy Trump's sure turning America into a mess, let's check in on how some of the more civilized countries are doing."
Oh.
See, the internet is just a series of pipes, and those pipes can get clogged, and then the water can't get through...
Everyone deleting will trigger drive activity, rather than just letting it be dormant. Seems counterproductive.
Datacenters don't spin down drives. Like ever. Spin up time is too much overhead when a request finally comes in.
The "savings" here is that removing data from the mail hosts in general means that less drives need to be brought online to handle new data. Less drives overall = less wattage.
The better request would be to go onto icloud and delete all those pocket pictures... or duplicate pictures that you uploaded. One picture can be dozens if not hundreds of text emails.
I run most of my own services including email... My inbox with stuff from 2006/2007 time-frame and about 150,000 emails is a mere 11.6GiB... My automatic image backup folder on Nextcloud eclipses that readily for just one month of images/videos (I have kids).
Increase in network activity, cpu activity, thermal loads on the system. Letting the data sit is definitely going to be less usage. Sure if they had said to do all this before the drought it would matter now, but during the drought you’re already using the energy and any change will increase that usage.
A delete operation is not intensive.
I don't mean spin down or up since some might be ssd anyway, I just mean a head accessing data is power on top of a spinning drive doing nothing
Until the UK sends Nestle a cease and desist order for bottling water to sell, they need to fuck off.
The brits don't have a fucking clue how computers work. This also explains their stupid ideas about encryption.