Dude, we are literally using single use plastic bottles to store water for a few weeks in them.

If we're doing one bad thing already, we may as well do a hundred!

Nothing is stopping you to buy a reusable bottle.

Compared to what though?

I think it might be friendlier in some aspects than fetching an image from a server running the big the models.

And you don't have to worry about service disruptions or api keys

An e-ink display doing it should only use energy when refreshes. And you could minimize refreshes to once a day, week, etc

Less friendly than a photo of course.

Watch 5 seconds of a tv show with your big tv and you've spent that environmental cost

Why do you say that? The energy usage of inference? I would guess that the embodied energy of the digital photo frame is probably higher.

That's where $1999 color E Ink display comes into play.

There are cheaper.. but it might require dithering..

2.5A 5V is not much power, and it would use considerably less when idling.

125 watt hours for a raspberry pi to generate an image in 10 hours compared to 7 watt hours for a 440W PC to run for 1 minute.

Is this for a regular Pi . The OP post is using a Pi Zero 2.

That is big though