That’s the price of privacy I am currently paying.

There was, however, a video from The Hated One, that presents a different perspective on this. Maybe privacy is more environment friendly than we think.

A lot of energy is wasted on data collection and analysis for advertising. Devices with modified firmwares, like LineageOS and GrapheneOS, do not collect such data, reducing the load on analysis servers.

So, prosumers, leveraging computers that are not optimized for AI workloads, being limited to models that are typically inferior to commercial ones, are wasting more energy for even more slop?