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by nmilo 1349 days ago
What a ridiculous premise. The value of your time does not come in some sort of interchangeable unit where 1 hour of TV repair is comparable to 1 hour of Firefox bug-fixing. Realistically, if the author decided to get a new TV, he would not spend that new-saved time trying to make up for the environmental damage he caused by throwing his old TV out.

(And who is even to say your bugfix would save power? It's not like Firefox has a power-usage detector in their CI pipeline.)

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Not to mention the time spent shopping, fuel spent delivering, time spent setting up and configuring...