My power usage has dropped by maybe 50% (a bit of a guess, based partly on electricity bills), and quality of life has increased - I simply didn't consider that these options worked better overall until I tried them for power-saving purposes.
It actually taught me a lot about innovation - there is no substitute for just trying things; you just can't know by thinking about them ahead of time. A picture is worth 1,000 words, and an experience is worth 100,000 pictures - you can't really convey it in pictures. As a result, I 'just try things' whenever I have the opportunity, and my learning rate has increased dramatically.
There are two questions about efficiency upgrades:
How much power do you use compared to the alternative? It may increase, but more efficiency means it increases less than the alternative.
How much power do you use absolutely? Physics causes climate change, and doesn't care about the hypothetical alternative.
It actually taught me a lot about innovation - there is no substitute for just trying things; you just can't know by thinking about them ahead of time. A picture is worth 1,000 words, and an experience is worth 100,000 pictures - you can't really convey it in pictures. As a result, I 'just try things' whenever I have the opportunity, and my learning rate has increased dramatically.
There are two questions about efficiency upgrades:
How much power do you use compared to the alternative? It may increase, but more efficiency means it increases less than the alternative.
How much power do you use absolutely? Physics causes climate change, and doesn't care about the hypothetical alternative.