[drdaeman]

> You are streaming video at the same time, so there's no point in worrying about idling.

I'd argue it's completely opposite of this. You're streaming video, already putting some significant stress on the system. No reason to waste time (even if it's a minuscule amount) to make things worse.

> Striving for "doing things right" when the wrong thing is perfectly appropriate would be a bad example.

And that's how we ended with e.g. modern IoT that kinda sorta works but accumulation of minor bad decisions (and some less minor bad decisions for sure) ends up making the whole thing a hot mess.

[account42]

Sleeping for 100ms between checking for events will not produce a noticeable CPU load. The only reason this would drain the battery is because it can prevent the CPU from entering deeper powersaving states - but even for that 100ms is an eternity and video streaming will prevent that anyway.