BrightCandle

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[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It's low power that is still making arm small computers popular. It's impossible to get a pc down into the 2-5 Watt power consumption range and over time it's the electrical costs that add up. I would suggest the RPI5 is the thing to get because it's expensive for what it is and more performance is available from other options supported by armbian.

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think that is a very promising trailer. Hopefully the show is on a similar trajectory to prior seasons,

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

I use a 5600g on b450 ITX board and 4x 8GB Seagate drives and see about 35W idle and about 40W average. It used to be 45W because I was forced to use a GPU in addition to a 3600 to boot (even though its headless, just a bad bios setup that I can't fix) and getting a CPU with graphics dropped my idle consumption quite a bit. I suspect the extra wattage for your machine is probably the bigger motherboard and the less efficient CPU.

It is possible to get the machine part down into single digits wattage and then about 5W a drive is the floor without spinning them down, so the minimum you could likely see with a much less powerful CPU is about 30-35W.

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

The real value of uplink was that it was a game about hacking, it wasn't trying to be realistic it had artificial tension added as well as simplified concepts but added gameplay around that. Almost all of the modern hacking games are much more realistic and capable but also miss what made Uplink the iconic game which is gameplay.

I would love a spiritual successor to Uplink, I would definitely play that, but so far all the hacking games I have seen since have fallen into the trap of realism and programming.

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago

There is no end to the greed of those with millions and especially billions and they aren't content to just keep running a profitable business, they have to get all the money.

This is just the history of humanity and finances forever, the one saving grace in all this is every big business gets complacent in its money making and seeks ever increasing profit (and becomes management heavy) until a young upstart finds a way to do it a lot better and cheaper and disrupts the market. Google has become the big lumbering unable to change organisation seeking maximum profit now, its become IBM.

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Make sure none of the exceptions are ticked and the Minimum number of articles to keep per feed is also 25 or below. Then its up to the cron when that runs so you might have to manually purge it and optimise the database to see what it will actually keep.

I can't say I have ever worried about it, been running FreshRSS for years and it seems to keep its database size in check fairly well and the defaults have worked fine for me and it rarely gets above 100MB. So I know it "loosely" works in that old articles are absolutely getting purged in time but have no idea how strictly it follows these rules.

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

the lack of control group undergoing the same monitoring means there is a high chance of bias.

I would also want to see secondary measures such as the amount of queries people did and what they actually used it for. Might be worth tracking over time to see if there is an increase or decrease in use. These sort of secondary measures give some confidence that it is useful and its continuing to be so and its not just people behave differently when watched.

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He made that pretty clear in the run up to the election really, commit to nothing and do nothing just deliver soundbites. All he ever cared about was being in government, he had no reason to be doing it other than the power itself.

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

They finally realise that supporting a genocide might land them in the hague for crimes against humanity. It might, it certainly should but I fear that today the rich and powerful are beyond the reach of the law.

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Even if your in and have a history of good questions and responses it is still ridiculously hard to get a question accepted. Stackoverflow is dying due to its own choices and its driven many people away from it. They caused their own peak in 2014 and its amazing it took this long to decline.

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Everyone has given Linux answers, its also worth knowing quite a lot of UEFI's contain the ability to secure erase as well. There are a number of USB bootable disk management tools that can do secure erase as well.

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Its been so long I can't see ever receiving the game I paid for on kickstarter. We seem so far away from having that game with single player and personally hosted.

 

This used to be a lot easier, Youtube had an export function to OPML and you could just import it.

Its quite useful being able to follow all your Youtube channels with your RSS reader if you want to pick which you want to watch then also Metube and the browser plug-in makes it a right click and select to send it for download.

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