ProdigalFrog

Older desktops can have a somewhat hefty idle power draw due to the overall system consumption contributing more than expected, such as the southbridge. According to this old review of the i7-2600k, the system idles at 74w, which at $0.12 per KWh, would cost you roughly $77 per year. Though you might want to confirm that with a Kill-a-watt meter if you can (libraries sometimes lend them out), since I'm pretty sure that total system power chart includes a discrete GPU, so the real number for a GPU-less system is probably around 40 or 50w at idle.

If that is accurate, you could potentially replace your i7-2600 with a used Dell Wyse 5070 thin client from ebay for about $40 (in the US), and that idles at 5w, which would only cost you $5 a year at the same rate.

Older thin clients and laptops tend to have much better idle power draws compared to desktops. For other people reading this, if you're using a desktop for a low-power use case, it's probably worth finding out what its idle power consumption is and doing the calculation to determine if it'd be worth replacing it with a more efficient used thin-client or office mini-pc.

If you play the OG deus ex, I highly recommend modding it with the revision overhaul, or GMDX. It's very clunky without one.

If you like stealth games, I'd recommend the first two thief games (with fan patches to run well on modern systems).

Andor is one of the finest shows I've seen in years, and so deeply relevant for today.

Fir anyone who hasn't seen it yet, you can watch the first 3 episodes for free on YouTube. The rest is free too if you have certain swagger as he sing a shanty witg her mates! (Dbzero is a wonderful instance, by the by).

Yes we can. Doomerism only guarantees our failure. Collective action still matters, it still has an effect.

Capitalism will bring us to ruin if allowed to continue, and we will indeed need to have a reckoning with it, or perish. If you want that reckoning to be tried, then join in your local communities, organize, unionize your job, help your friends and family unionize theirs, and prepare together.

At least then we'll have a chance.

This is an anarchist instance, we're on the same page. Ending capitalism is the only real way out of all of this.

But right now, at this very moment, things are not doomed. They could be doomed in the future, but that isn't written yet. So yes, fight like hell, but realize that a lot of people who read comments like "We're fucked. It's over", or read the OP's article, will come away thinking we've already reached a human extinction level event, which we absolutely have not yet, and can still influence.

It's important to frame it that we can still make a difference, otherwise people will simply give up and not worry about trying to fix things since they believe it's all fucked and pointless, which can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Eventually there will be a heat death of the universe, so that technically makes all existence 'meaningless' if you consider an ending to make everything before it meaningless.

Before then though, there will be a lot of existing going on for living beings, who fill their lives with meaning and joy and connection while they remain alive, and we'd rather like it if our environment wasn't a complete garbage fire while doing so.

Nothing has changed. Nothing.

But it has.

Alternative energy is cheaper and more viable than anyone 40 years ago could've ever thought possible. China is building out insane amounts of solar energy, and India is starting to as well. The EU is reducing emissions, if slowly.

Yes, the US going hard right and abandoning climate goals is a shitshow, but they're not the entire world. Good things are still happening.

Based on this interview with Douglas Rushkoff, they can't even fathom treating their security guards well to prevent them from revolting in the bunker.

Doomerism isn't the answer. You may not have kids, but other people still will, and they'll have to live through the world we leave them. Instead of giving up and saying fuck it, use your anger, hope, love, whatever you need to fuel you, and do what you can. Plant trees to create shade you will not be under, find ways to minimize your energy usage, get to know your community, talk to them, prepare together.

It's far more fulfilling than waiting out your death in despair, so even if you think it's all useless, you'll have a much better time of it either way.

That is not a position backed by our current climate science knowledge. We do have a certain amount of climate change baked in right now, absolutely. And it will remain like that for quite a long time, and yes, if we went net-zero, it will stay that way for many decades, maybe even a century or two.

But we can influence how bad that period is, and if it will ever level off (for future generations, not in our lifetime).

If we throw up our hands and do nothing, we are guaranteeing our doom as a species. If we continue to fight, we can ease the pain and horror we and our future generations will have to go through, survive as species, and far in the future, bring the climate back to what it was pre-industial revolution.

I understand why he's despairing and frustrated after so many years of effort, but I hope his framing doesn't quell people's efforts. It's definitely too late to stop climate change from happening, but we can still effect how bad it gets, so please don't give up.

Muntedcrocodile: "I believe in the right to spread hatred as long as it's not calling for violence."

Lemmy: "Um, okay. Let's give that a try. We hate hateful right wing views, and call people with those views total assholes."

muntedcrocodile: "Wait, not like that! You should tolerate us so there's a diversity of views!"

Ironic.