MentalEdge

You might have your units confused.

0.1kWh over how much time? Per day? Per hour? Per week?

Watthours refer to total power used to do something, from a starting point to an ending point. It makes no sense to say that a device needs a certain amount of Wh, unless you’re talking about something like charging a battery to full.

Power being used by a device, (like a computer) is just watts.

Think of the difference between speed and distance. Watts is how fast power is being used, watt-hours is how much has been used, or will be used.

If you have a 500 watt PC, for example, it uses 500Wh, per hour. Or 12kWh in a day.

No shit. Only reason I bring it up is as a way to illustrate how badly I do not want this.

What a world we live in, when there’s a possibility my use of a private matrix server between family, might become criminal.

Obviously. The point is that it’s the kind of thing that will make me reject the very society I’m living in, and I would change it wholly to avoid this.

If the source was my own government, for the first time in my life, I’d be considering moving to a new country.

This. There are already plans on expanding what the surveillance is used for, as soon as it is possible to begin with.

“Think of the children” is just the trick they’re using to get their foot in the door. It being utterly ineffective in doing what they claim it’ll do, is irrelevant.

This is a level of bullshit that will straight up make me vote to leave the EU.

Outlawing E2EE should just not be a thing. It just shouldn’t.

“working towards something better is pointless, everything is shit anyway”

Hey, switching to a less shit shitty option, is still an improvement.

If the only way you’re willing to accept improvement, is by fixing it all at once or nothing at all, you’ll never solve anything.