Sorry to nitpick but doesn’t 100% of it end up as heat? Vibrations, light, sounds, radio waves- all a tiny fraction of the power are also eventually absorbed by the environment.
That was my understanding at least

Don’t offload that shit on the people when the problem is industrial scale

Many are fighting for their survival as is

It doesn’t fix it, but as stupid as it looks, it should actually improve the chances.
If you’ve seen how the reasoning works, they basically spit out some garbage, then read it again and think whether it’s garbage enough or not.
They do try to ‘correct their errors’, so to say.

I can’t use a CRM that doesn’t have bidirectional sync with my existing carddav, or at least I’d have to setup such sync myself.

There’s https://github.com/mattogodoy/nametag, which added this feature recently I believe.

Let me guess, you are from the US