Lka1988 @ lka1988 @sh.itjust.works

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Please, PLEASE, have a group of them come to the White House just to laugh at trump on live TV, PLEASE, I need it so badly

Nobody is doing that. "Gender-affirming care" also includes giving hormone blockers to a kid who started puberty way too early.

Ah, but only one is a chest freezer 😉

That, and I used to have a freezer that was a power suck.

That's either a really efficient PC or a really old freezer 😂

For govt devices: As they should, like with every non-preapproved software.

For companies: Eh, their devices their rules.

For entire countries: Fuck you, let the people choose.

The bedrooms, including my entire master bedroom suite, each have one 15A circuit. No more. That's how most duplex townhouses are. The lights are currently those damn CFL lights, so they aren't exactly difficult to dim - CFLs almost do it on their own when they're close to dying (which these ones are).

That, and it's a rental house.

I'm eyeballing HWINFO64 right now, it's saying my GPU is idling at ~28W and the CPU is idling at ~36W. Add a couple watts for the fans, various peripherals, and waste heat; it's close to what I saw earlier.

The dual 1080p monitors eat up about 30W apiece on their own, when powered and actively displaying something. Barely a watt or two each when in standby mode.

The plugs are rated for 1800W each. Should be fine. I hit 670W a bit earlier, running Furmark VK and Cinebench R23 multi-core simultaneously for shits and giggles.

It's ~90W at idle; the plug is monitoring everything at my desk. No spinning rust, all solid state. Settings for CPU and GPU are all default at the moment. It does have an 850W PSU, but I've had it pulling over 700W at one point (dimming my bedroom lights), so that's somewhat justified 😅

I'll dig into settings later, but for now I'm good just turning it off unless I'm using it.

Part of why I'm going with the 'T' SKU Pentium G4560T instead of the standard G4560 on my custom NAS build.

Yeah, I noticed haha. Though I did have a big freezer some years ago that was a pretty hefty power suck... I never measured it, but it definitely affected my power bill.

Nice!

TBH I didn't think it used a whole lot at idle, what with modern manufacturing processes and all. I was fairly surprised.

I've got a decent handle on my electric bill. I already have it set to "equal pay", so I pay roughly the same amount every month - which includes my server cluster running 24/7.

I did some quick math, and my PC's estimated usage for a month is ~70 kW/h, which is ~$10 in my area. My last power bill was 1,145 kW/h total.

Sure!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQTFM1T6

Just plug it in, hold the button to put it into pairing mode, then launch your zigbee discovery method. No app, no wifi, no bluetooth. Just pure local control.

That'd be interesting, but I don't plan to integrate my PC that deeply into HA, if at all.

I basically live right on the shoreline of Lake Bonneville.

Neither - these mountains, with a fault line quite literally 50 feet behind my house.

Yeah for real. Cheap and plentiful on eBay as well. That's where I get mine, and company surplus.

Very nice. I don't like laptops for gaming, but I recognize and appreciate the utility of them; I use my laptop (Thinkpad T14 G1 AMD) more than my gaming PC for most things outside of that.