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https://aa55.dev/2025/10/21/Desktop-low-power.html
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LOL, nice.
(I’m only not using Firefox at the moment because I’m on Graphene OS and they claim their “Vanadium” browser is best for some reason, so I was giving it a chance. Getting fed up and about to switch back to Firefox, though.)
I would read this if I weren’t arbitrarily blocked for not installing Firefox on Android, but whatever. Wonder what happens if you use iOS lol…
Hard to imagine what I assume is a blog has any actual requirements preventing non-Gecko browsers unless it’s designed incredibly poorly.
Works perfectly fine on IOS no matter the browser base.
Just like the good old days when sites would force you to have Internet Explorer and Flash plugin installed to work properly. Amazing.
You mean like today when sites don’t work without using Chromium or if you dare to have some tracking protection active?
I take that as a hint that I’m not in the site’s target demographic, and simply close the tab.
I had no problem viewing the site on lynx. I wonder what their list of allowed browsers is. It’s bizarre.
It is almost impossible to achieve those numbers, specially the idle, and the load we can only to be close to them when we use the watt/ per-useful-instruction metric.
recentest hw will have decent idle consumption (n95 is around 2w) but the rest of the hw will consume more and usually you attach more powerful/energy hungry devices so expect <10w in idle and perhaps <25w under load.
Older hw could not be so bad under load but they will idle less and will consume more
The Ryzen 2600 has a TDP of 65W. With a CPU with 35W TDP maybe a passive cooler like the Noctua NH-P1 would work. Still really hard to beat the efficiency of an ARM chip.
WhiteHotaru@feddit.org 10 minutes ago
Wolfgangs Channel on YouTube has some elaborate videos on reducing power consumption for home servers, including Google sheets with tests for several PSUs.