Everyone dunks on Apple for throttling older batteries but the fact is this was super pro-consumer move. It prevents the phone from randomly powering off because the SOC tries to pull a burst of energy that the battery is too tired to output, and resets following a battery replacement, plus nobody notices the throttling except under synthetic benchmarks where you actually have performance numbers to see the handful of percentage points of performance difference. AND after this kerfuffle they added a toggle switch where if you so prefer random instability on an aging battery over 2% slower turbo performance you can choose to have that.

Should see an old 6th gen i5 mini PC on a power monitor. It’s basically nothing!

If you go near college housing there’s usually a given day of the year (either moving day or an official cleanup day) when tons of people put out stuff they don’t want to bother with keeping/moving. It’s Hippie Christmas baby!

About to be? The bottom has been falling out for desktops and laptops on processors not on Microsoft’s supported list for the last year or more. I’ve seen roughly the same system go from ~$200+ down to under $100 on the last year based on eBay pricing alone

I think it’s secretly Khajiit’s new marketplace for wares if you have the coin

eBay, work, friends/family, friendly ask of your work’s IT person, or just call up the local recycling/ecycling company and ask

Jesus 25W is about what a miniPC would consume at a constant 30-50% load!

Honestly, if you’re in the States I have a bunch of HP ProDesks that my wife would be very happy to see disappear from our basement (I bid on an auction I didn’t expect to win lol). I’d happily send one for the cost of shipping

Power consumption is a massive reason to really not do that. Its cheap for a reason, its takes a shitload of power to be shit and you will pay more in energy than you save in hardware unless its only powered on for short periods of time

Ewaste computers actually tend to be on par if not better than an RPi in power consumption these days. It might feel like a RPi should be more efficient given the size and USB power connector, but modern Pis consume a solid 10-20w while in use which is more or similar to most miniPCs (they idle at single digit watts now and can “race to sleep” more effectively than a Pi) while costing about the same and the Pi is far less upgradeable

Well, it’s quite simple really:

1. Kick has very little moderation. Pirate streams and gambling streams abound on Kick
2. The worst people who got banned from YouTube and Twitch continue to stream on Kick and who wants to be associated with that?
3. Kick is owned by a gambling company. Seriously think about it for more than 10 seconds, the service is entirely built on AWS which costs so much even Twitch which is literally owned by Amazon can’t turn a profit. Venture capital ain’t handing out free money to super unprofitable companies right now so they clearly are making money somewhere, and that somewhere is gambling

I was playing The Witcher 3 recently and I’d amassed way too many random animal pelts so I just went to any merchant who would buy them and sold about 200 various deer and goat pelts until the merchants had no money left. I have no clue what the merchants are going to do with all of those pelts but that’s certainly not my loot goblin self’s problem anymore!

I heard Blink-182 being interviewed on NPR. We’re all old now!

Realistically Tailscale seems to currently be running on a model of get all of the self hosters to love running it at home so then they advocate to run it at work where all of the pricey enterprises licenses make the real money.

I’ve actually seen some real world usecases where if I had more political push, I would’ve put Tailscale onto the running as a potential solution

Hopefully they have the right people in place to push back at the VC firms about maintaining their current strategy rather than scaring away all of their best advocates before they can truly get off the ground. Having worked at a company owned by a hedgefund, part of the trick is having the right people in place in the company who can block the worst decisions by the capital-hungry owners

A few days ago my mom made a “joke” that clearly having good kids skipped a generation right after commenting about how well behaved my kids were.

With my own kids now I’ve been realizing how many of the “behaviors” my parents would complain about and expect me to improve upon were just normal kid stuff

Except most people just click a link on their desktop that goes to a thing they have a completely different name for anyways. If you don’t tell them anything (or just say it’s a new version of Windows) they likely won’t notice the actual differences, just complain about missing a specific icon for something without being able to correctly name what it is

I’m now seeing firsthand why folks across the pond keep making snarky comments about The Independent being a Tory tag…

Is it sad that my first suspicion is that it simply doesn’t meet the local legal definition of a hate crime because the laws are probably written to protect white people only?